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The rats are not the only problem beneath the streets of New York City. It seems that the subway stations, naturally populated by bacteria,...
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Weill Cornell Medical College is reporting that Dr. Christopher E. Mason, an assistant professor in Weill Cornell’s Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the...
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Today’s arsenal of antibiotics is ineffective against some emerging strains of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Novel inhibitors of bacterial growth therefore need to be found. One...
Life
Many people suffer from uncomfortable abdominal cramping and diarrhea that come with inflammatory bowel disease. The condition may stem from an imbalance with the...
Tech & Science
Cocaine abuse is problematic, directly and indirectly impacting the lives of millions, and yet existing therapies are inadequate and usually ineffective. Cocaine is a...
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To date, the interesting behavior has only been detected with hoopoes, with no other birds displaying this type of activity. The purpose of the...
Tech & Science
To kill bacteria, antimicrobial peptides target the bacterial membrane. This makes it difficult for bacteria to develop resistance, unlike the processes that occur with...
Life
Crohn’s disease can potentially affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus. Symptoms often include: abdominal pain, diarrhea (which may be...
Life
The study published in the journal Psychopharmacology feeding the “good” bacteria in the gut has a positive correlation with anxiety relief. The researchers used...
Life
What is hygiene? It is something open to different definitions. Perhaps one of the simplest is hygiene as the set of behaviors that animals,...