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According to News Daily, African Giant Pouched Rats can be trained to sniff out a number of objects, from explosives to infections. Tuberculosis is...
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Finding new deposits of platinum is proving difficult. The metal is of industrial importance. Platinum is a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, precious, gray-white...
Life
To understand incidences of foodborne illnesses in association with vegetables, microbiologists have discovered that some pathogenic viruses can adhere to the surfaces of fresh...
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The organism “created” is Mycoplasma mycoides. The origins of the experiment date back to 2010, when a 1079-kb genome based organism was created. With...
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The newly discovered form of communication is a type of electrical signalling, similar to that used by brain cells. Specifically bacteria interact through ion...
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Alzheimer’s disease is a common pathology of the modern world, especially with ageing populations. This is generally regarded to be due to both hereditary...
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Tooth decay and the formation of cavities is formed by bacteria in the mouth processing certain substrates, like carbohydrates from sugar foods. This happens...
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The main idea behind the fabric is to reduce the number of antibiotics and antimicrobials administered. Sometimes, when a patient has a serious wound...
World
When doctors told Christophe Novou that his leg would have to be amputated at the hip due to a raging bacterial infection, the 47-year-old...
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Microbiologists have discovered how two bacterial species move through the human body by “hitching a ride” on immune cells. The organisms in question are:...