News tagged with microbial risk

Gastroenterologists explore relationship between bacteria in the gut and breast cancer

The human body contains billions of microorganisms, and microbial cells found in the human gut are estimated to outnumber human cells by ten-to-one in healthy adults. However, little is known about the ways in which these ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Spit, anyone?

Mark Nicas has given some of his best years to spittle. He builds models - the mathematical kind - of how someone else's slobber ends up on you. The size of the particles, whether they come out in a dry co ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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An eye for the tsetse fly

(PhysOrg.com) -- Geoffrey M. Attardo was one of those little boys who made pets of the spiders outside his bedroom window, feeding them and watching as they spun intricate webs. Age has not diminished his ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists cautious over Russia's Antarctic lake drilling

Experts on Monday raised questions over the scientific benefit and environmental impact of Russia's feat in drilling into a virgin lake under Antarctica's icesheet. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Straight from the gut: Microbes can cause obesity

(Medical Xpress) -- Obesity and chronic liver disease can be triggered by a family of proteins that alter populations of microbes in the stomach, a discovery that suggests the condition may be infectious, ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hands-on learning, mentoring keys to 'diversifying science'

Richard Losick got hooked on science while writing his senior thesis as a Princeton University undergraduate in 1965.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Reuse of municipal wastewater has potential to augment future drinking water supplies

With recent advances in technology and design, treating municipal wastewater and reusing it for drinking water, irrigation, industry, and other applications could significantly increase the nation's total available water ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New way to learn about, potentially block traits in harmful pathogens

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have developed a new way to identify the genes of harmful microbes, particularly those that have been difficult to study in the laboratory.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists urge balance in the war on antimicrobial resistance

Scientists are urging policymakers to reconsider priorities in efforts to understand and control antimicrobial resistance. The new research, published today, was led by Royal Veterinary College Principal Professor Stuart ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Manipulating way bacteria 'talk' could have practical applications

By manipulating the way bacteria "talk" to each other, researchers at Texas A&M University have achieved an unprecedented degree of control over the formation and dispersal of biofilms – a finding with potentially significant ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Microbial communities on skin affect humans' attractiveness to mosquitoes

The microbes on your skin determine how attractive you are to mosquitoes, which may have important implications for malaria transmission and prevention, according to a study published Dec. 28 in the online journal PLoS ON ...

Biology / Other

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researchers develop new method of cleaning toxins from the oilsands

Alberta's oilsands have water challenges. Oilsands development uses a vast amount of water and even though it's recycled multiple times, the recycling concentrates the toxins and metals leftover from extracting ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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