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- That Florida beach isn't just sand, it could be a lot of crap
- Now that you've read the headline, here's the brutal research result: fecal bacteria are likely lurking in that sunny beach where you've lain in the sun. Seems those micro-organisms can find the damp sand about as comfortable a medium as, say, some human's lower intestine.The research also indicates that...
- Tags: Bacteria, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Our urine shows where we live
- It's almost logical that our urine contains traces of what we eat and drink. But an international team of researchers decided to learn more and has analyzed frozen urine samples from 4,630 people. These samples have been collected between 1997 and 1999 in China, Japan, the UK and the...
- Tags: China, Researcher, Japan, Bacteria, U.S. Here, Healthcare, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Electricity generated by bacteria?
- It will take years before bacteria can generate enough energy to generate electricity for transportation, homes or businesses, but researchers at the University of Minnesota studying bacteria have found a way to convert waste into electricity. They've discovered that riboflavin (also known as vitamin B-2) is responsible for much of...
- Tags: Electron, Bacteria, Shewanella, Web Site Development, Telecom & Utilities, Transportation, Internet, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Using bacteria as medical robots
- Using bacteria as medical robotsCoolI like it.
- Tags: Robots, bacteria, robot
- Discussion threads 2008-03-02
- Using bacteria as medical robots
- Does the idea of turning bacteria into cancer-fighting robots sound like science fiction? Maybe today, but not in a near future. A researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a four-year grant of more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the feasibility of...
- Tags: Mouse, Forbes, Bacteria, Salmonella, Mice, Robots, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- Anyone out there cleaning their keyboards?
- I was working in the main office and guidance suite today since, on the first day of a new semester, we invariably have countless schedule changes, grading problems from the end of the semester, reports to run, etc. I didn't bother bringing my laptop as our student information system...
- Tags: Bacteria, Computer, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Antibacterial paint is on the horizon
- Antibacterial paint is on the horizonSounds good butwill it just be churning out more resistant bacteria?Probably notThe action of silver on bacteria is quite different from the action of anti-bacterial medical agents on bacteria. I'd compare it to mercury. I don't think people are going to become immune to mercury...
- Tags: Real estate, bacteria, Antibacterial, mercury
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- MRSA still vulnerable to soap
- MRSA still vulnerable to soapSoap worksI agree! Soap does work. And, you don’t have to use some super-duper antibiotic soap. 97% of all bacteria are beneficial to human development. Only 3% are harmful. For 60 years we have been trying to kill all the bacteria. It doesn’t work! They just...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, bacteria, MRSA
- Discussion threads 2008-01-15
- Life in extreme environments
- U.S. biologists have developed a model mapping the control circuit governing a bacteria named Halobacterium salinarum, which can live in extremely salty environments, and that can survive to radiation which would be deadly to most other organisms. Their model shows how these bacteria adapt themselves in response to their environment....
- Tags: Genome, Environment, Gene, Bacteria, Cell, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-30
- Conversations between bacteria
- Did you know that bacteria 'talked' with each other by using small molecules to coordinate their behavior and decide when it's a good time to infect you? A recent American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac briefly describes how UK researchers are working toward a Rosetta stone for microbes' secret language (scroll...
- Tags: Bacteria, Molecule, Biotechnology, Web Site Development, Productivity, Security, Internet, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- A surprise in nature's operating system
- A surprise in nature's operating systemGenetic manipulation"Can we encode the HIV virus into the human genome, rendering it harmless, and should we?"I know it's "too geeky" for some, but in the Star Trek Deep Space 9 series they had a character, Dr. Bashir, who had been born with abnormally low...
- Tags: Biotechnology, RNA, DNA, antibiotic, bacteria, genetic manipulation, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-11-29
- Forget global warming, stop MRSA terrorism and get rich
- Forget global warming, stop MRSA terrorism and get richNovel AntibioticsMRSA is a real problem. I work in a microbiology lab with a researcher who takes a particular interest in novel antibiotics, and have taken quite an interest in these little critters. I have learned alot from him but...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, SECURITY, global warming, MRSA, antibiotic, bacteria, ear infection
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
- Forget global warming, stop MRSA terrorism and get rich
- File this one under Law of Unintended Consequences. Everything you do will have some environmental effect you cannot forsee. Decades of antibiotic use and we now have some killer bacteria that are anti-antibiotic. That terrorizes me pretty well. They say the bacteria especialy like us...
- Tags: Infection, Terrorism, Bacteria, Global Warming, MRSA, Security, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Bioengineered viruses kill bacteria
- Bioengineered viruses kill bacteriaArgh!Don't worry. When the bioengineered e coli starts to kill good bacteria ... they'll do another designer module to eat the first one ...Nothing New Here...I've been doing some research into MRSA (M~cillin Resistant Staph Aureus) infection. My son is in the hospital with one right now.The...
- Tags: bacteria, Bioengineered virus
- Discussion threads 2007-07-11
- Bioengineered viruses kill bacteria
- Synthetic biology is an emerging field which involves the engineering of biological organisms. One of the first applications has been developed by a team of researchers from the MIT and Boston University who built viruses to combat harmful 'biofilms'. These bacteriophages -- or phages -- could soon be used to...
- Tags: Health &, Medicine, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Cancer therapy without side-effects?
- Most of you know at least one person who has been affected by cancer and treated by chemotherapy, suffering from side-effects such as hair loss or nausea. This is because chemotherapy attacks both healthy and unhealthy cells in the whole body. Now, Australian researchers are using nanotechnology to offer chemotherapy...
- Tags: Health &, Medicine, Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Bacteria to protect against quakes
- Bacteria to protect against quakesNeat...My first thought was "gee these must be some gigantic bacteria", but after reading the article I am actually impressed by what they did to get to where they are today with this solution. My hats off to these people!Result?Is the end result the manufacture...
- Tags: bacteria
- Discussion threads 2007-02-26
- Bacteria to protect against quakes
- If you live near the sea, chances are high that your home is built over sandy soil. And if an earthquake strikes, deep and sandy soils can turn to liquid, with some disastrous consequences for the buildings sitting on them. But now, U.S. researchers have found a way to use...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-02-25
- Bacteria Pairs (exe)
- Basically, this is a game which tests your short-term memory. When you click on 2 bacteria that are not identical, the faces flash for less than a second, then they close up. Remember where all the faces are so when you come across their identical twin, you can quickly reunite...
- Tags: Face, Bacteria, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-12-22
- Bacteria Solitaire (exe)
- Imagine playing a game in a bacteria-infested environment. Its not really that scary playing Bacteria Solitaire. Its just playing solitaire with a friendly host of bacteria, to be precise. These amiable bacteria monsters will accompany you while you play the classic game of solitaire. The rules of play are identical...
- Tags: Bacteria, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-12-22
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