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Microbiology Pronunciations 2.0 (Mobile)

Microbiology Pronunciations is an application that will play back audio of the correct pronunciations of virtually all of the medically important fungi. It has an integrated web browser with direct links to Wikipedia and Google for additional information. If your microbe is not listed, you can submit the word through...

Tags: Mobile, Fungi, Hipposoft, Microbiology Pronunciations, Wiki, Web Browsers, Online Communications, Internet

Software downloads 2009-08-19

Ian Skerrett: Eclipse is not the fungus among us (us=Java community)

In response to my last post about how rich internet applications running on mobile and embedded devices is the marketplace over which Sun, Adobe, and Microsoft will stop at nothing to win (a "deathmatch" I called it), Ian Skerrett who runs marketing for the Eclipse Foundation questioned my choice of...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-05-16

Our pillows are dangerous for our health

I guess we shouldn't be surprised by the fact that our pillows are miniature zoos containing millions of fungal spores, with some species able to cause diseases and even death. Researchers at the University of Manchester have studied the fungal contamination of our pillows for the first time in seventy...

Tags: pillow

Blog posts 2005-10-15

Foxfire 1.0 (Mac)

(fox·fire: n. A phosphorescent glow, especially that produced by certain fungi found on rotting wood.) A dancing light with an optional clock. Colors are customizable.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Fungi, Glow, Colors, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-09-12

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Microbiology Pronunciations Lite 1.0 (Mobile)

Microbiology Pronunciations Lite is an application that will play back audio of the correct pronunciations of virtually all of the medically important fungi. This application helps undergraduates, physicians, medical students, nursing students, physician assistants, pre-med students, and foreign health professionals.

Tags: Physician, Mobile, Student, Hipposoft, Microbiology Pronunciations Lite

Software downloads 2009-08-19

Antibiotic Essentials (AntiEss) (Mobile)

Antibiotic Essentialspowered by Skyscape Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, LLC Antibiotics Essentials is a concise, practical, and authoritative guide to the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases.Aside from section Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Pediatric Drug Summaries, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, the resource also pertains to the treatment of infectious diseases and...

Tags: Syndrome, Mobile, Decision Support, Therapy, Skyscape Inc., Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-08-05

H2O + CO2 = CH4, thanks to Archaeans

Researchers at Penn State have found a friendly microbe that'll take our excess CO2, add some water, a charge of electricity, and return us methane. The original purpose of the portable electrolysis cell research: producing H2. But if you get lemons, make.... It's long been...

Tags: Electricity, Carbon Dioxide, Archaea, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Is dirt the new new thing?

Back to our roots? Literally and symbolically? I recently blogged about the White House kitchen garden. Turns out the MSM thinks this is part of a food revolution in America. Anything for a trend that has nothing directly to do with banking. Turns out even...

Tags: Food, Dirt, Mushroom Fan, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-22

Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?

Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?.....Personally I do believe that eventually when the stark reality hits home, we will pull our collective selves our of the pit, but not before some really hard times around the world. ]:)strategic bee coloniesIf CCD or future bee pandemics became severe...

Tags: Food & Beverage, bee, colony, strategic colony, bee population, bee colony

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Nanotechnology-based chicken feed?

In order to keep healthy the 200 million chicken raised in South Carolina -- and the humans who ate them -- Clemson University researchers are using nanoparticles. They call this intelligent chicken feed. They have built 'nanoparticles that mimic the host cell surface and lock to targeted pathogens. The particles...

Tags: Clemson University, Professor, Patent, Nanoparticle, Tzeng, Nanotechnology, Healthcare, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-23

The evolution of the Tree of Life

The Tree of Life was an expression used by Charles Darwin to describe the diversity of organisms on Earth and their evolutionary history. There are only two life forms, eukaryotes, which gather their genetic material in a nucleus, and prokaryotes, such as bacteria, which have their genetic material floating freely...

Tags: Earth, Life, Researcher, Tree, Life Form, Wiki, Biotechnology, Online Communications, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-22

A TIGER to track pathogens

TIGER, short for "Triangulation Identification for Genetic Evaluation of Risks," is a tool used by several U.S. labs which need to quickly identify pathogens, such as bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms that cause disease. In TIGER Technique Targets Plant Pathogens, the USDA/Agricultural Research Service ARS says that this detection tool...

Tags: Defense &, Security, Health &, Medicine, Science &, Nature, Tiger

Blog posts 2007-01-09

Here comes the terabyte hard drive

Here comes the terabyte hard driveMy MythTV system smilesWith HD content taking up roughly 10GB per hour in uncompressed form with 5.1 audio, this is a godsend.Bring it on!Backing it up?These are fine unless it crashes and you lose your data. Backing up a terabyte of information can be...

Tags: Corporate communications, Backups, Consumer electronics, DVD, DVD-R, MB-1 TB, video

Discussion threads 2007-01-05

Biology Quick Study Guide. FREE Cell chapter in the trial version. (Mobile)

Boost grades with an illustrated Biology study guide. You will use it from an undergraduate school all the way to medical school. FREE Cell chapter in the trial version.Audience Intended for everyone interested in Biology, particularly undergraduate and graduate life science students, medical students, nursing, and dental students.Features Fully illustrated....

Tags: DNA, Mobile, Biology, Cell, Biotechnology, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2006-12-28

Supreme Court to consider climate change rules

Supreme Court to consider climate change rulesIt's time to take action..The scientific verdict is in.. A VAST majority of scientists agree that our Global Warming cycle is..Mostly man made, and demonstrates a very disturbing trend, that left unchecked will dramatically alter earth's biosphere for the worse (that's being optimistic). The...

Tags: carbon dioxide, global warming

Discussion threads 2006-11-29

Bacteria can build nanowires

Bacteria can build nanowiresBioplasmsThey're everywhere. I'm no scientist, just curious, amd wondered how certain "germs" were able to communicate. In addition to chemical message packets, now we know that some of them form electrical networks.Fungi strains can spread far and wide and then as if by magic, all on cue,...

Tags: Cyberthreats, bacteria

Discussion threads 2006-07-12

Infectious Diseases - MobiReader Version 2006v2 (Mobile)

Topics include: Travel/ Tropical medicine (evaluation, prevention and treatments), HIV/ AIDS, Parasites (worms, insects, food poisoning...), TB, Leprosy, Lymphadenopathy, Biological/ Chemical Weapons/ Terrorism agents, meningitis/ encephalitis, osteomyelitis, skin infections, fevers, sepsis, antibiotic use, common skin infections, tick bites, animal bites, wounds.........Features: Edited by a highly regarded Infectious Disease specialist. This...

Tags: Fever, Mobile, Pacific Primary Care

Software downloads 2005-10-16

Infectious Diseases -- MobiReader Version 2006v2 (Mobile)

Topics include: Travel/ Tropical medicine (evaluation, prevention and treatments), HIV/ AIDS, Parasites (worms, insects, food poisoning...), TB, Leprosy, Lymphadenopathy, Biological/ Chemical Weapons/ Terrorism agents, meningitis/ encephalitis, osteomyelitis, skin infections, fevers, sepsis, antibiotic use, common skin infections, tick bites, animal bites, wounds.........Features: Edited by a highly regarded Infectious Disease specialist. This...

Tags: Fever, Mobile, HIV Virus, Pacific Primary Care

Software downloads 2005-10-16

Our pillows are dangerous for our health

Our pillows are dangerous for our healthLife is goodI have those pretty little plants growing under my nose while I sleep? It's like sleeping in a microscopic garden!God really is something, huh?Keyboards, kitchen sponges dirtier than toilet seats20/20 this past Friday had a program on that examined germ myths and...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Web site development, PRODUCTIVITY, Vertical industries, Viruses and worms, health care

Discussion threads 2005-10-15

Clinical Dermatology - MobiPocket Reader v2 (Mobile)

Topics include: all the various dermatitides, psychocutaneous disorders, psoriasis, all the dermatophytes tinea, scabies, lice, seborrhea, onychomycosis, skin cancers, hyperhidrosis, pigmentary problems, UV-light problems, blistering disorders, alopecia....even has illustrations. This text has all the latest and greatest medical management, drugs, dosages, and evidence based medical pearls with references. It has...

Tags: Mobile, Text, Pacific Primary Care, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Construction, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2005-09-03