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Scientists Equip Bacteria With Custom Chemo-Navigational System

...ollutants, synthesize and release therapeutics, or transport chemicals with an ability to localize to a specific chemical signal would open new frontiers in environmental cleanup, drug delivery and synthetic biology,' says Dr. Gallivan. The researchers equipped E. coli with a 'riboswitch,' a segment of RNA t...

Abu Dhabi to Have Worlds First Zero-carbon City

.... With a maximum distance of 200m to the nearest transport link and amenities, the compact network of streets...g and will be complemented by a personalised rapid transport system. Shaded walkways and narrow streets will create a pedestrian friendly environment in the c...

High Court Warns Medical Staff Against Misuse of Ambulance

...ted with medical equipment and registered with the transport authorities as an ambulance would be used only to carry patients for medical treatment. The court further asked petitioner and counsel Varun Goswami to keep a watch on the implementation of its directives. "If the order is not implemented, come b...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

...llution, make their homes, businesses, schools and transport more energy efficient, and plant new trees and preserve forests. The organizers are happy that China too has been roped in, despite its known reservation on the global warming issue. Kevin Wall, the executive producer of Live Earth, said, We're o...

Compensation Slows Recovery

... new research. Orthopaedic injury, usually from transport accidents or falls, is the most common form of hospitalisation in Australia, according to the study published in the latest Medical Journal of Australia. The authors Professor Peter Cameron, Head of the Emergency and Trauma Group at Monash Univers...

Dengue Deaths Sweeping Cambodia Highlight Healthcare Failures

... poor to afford the trip. We have no ambulance and transport is a problem," he explains. "We are so worried about the coming months -- parents are always waiting too long to bring their children to our hospital. By the time they arrive they have already fallen in a coma," Un Sam Ath says. Those who can aff...

Thrombosis Risk in Travel Lasting Over Four Hours is Higher: WHO

...propriate information regarding the risk of VTE by transport authorities, airlines, and medical professionals....

US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers

...juries and illness, dropping those not needing air transport to a military hospital from the bottom-line total. As of June 2, 25,830 troops had been wounded in action. Of these, 7,675 needed airlifts to military hospitals and the rest were treated and remained in Iraq. There were another 27,103 non-battle-...

Genetic Cause of Inherited Eye Diseases Identified

... cilia. Mutations in proteins associated with this transport system lead to a number of cilia-related diseases. The investigators also found 60 proteins encoded by genes on chromosomes implicated in 23 inherited cilia-related disorders. Armed with this knowledge, researchers hope to be able to more quickly f...

Roshan Announces Launch of Afghanistan's First Telemedicine Project

...om the international knowledge without the need to transport specialists to the country." "Our Government is striving to improve the quality of life of our people and providing quality healthcare is one of our top priorities. Telemedicine is the perfect marriage between the speed, convenience and cost-effecti...

Research in the Origin of Microtubules

...iphery. Their rapid assembly and disassembly helps transport proteins throughout the cell and generate polarize...es may influence cell motility by facilitating the transport of proteins needed for movement to the cell front. "This new microtubule subset that we discovered...

Wounded British Troops Wait Hours to Reach Hospital

...ys which meant that it could take several hours to transport casualties even short distances to a field hospita...roled on an ad hoc basis for the critical care and transport of our sickest patients. "We still do not have a dedicated all-weather military helicopter evacuat...

New Genetic Studies Carried Out in Cancer Therapy

... In this study, decreased expression of a ceramide transport protein, COL4A3BP, sensitized cancer cells to multiple cytotoxic agents. Further, expression of COL4A3BP was increased in drug-resistant tumor cells and in a small cohort of ovarian cancers following paclitaxel treatment. The researchers suggest th...

Glaucoma can Be Cured by Oven Cleaner!

... treatments contain chemicals that don't attach to transport proteins very successfully, so only a small amount gets through the cornea. Now Seal and colleague Sanku Mallik have effectively combined nanoceria with a compound that blocks the hCAII enzyme, which is involved in producing fluid inside the eye. ...

Green Box Converts Car Fumes into Biofuel

...-intensive, for example using miles of pipeline to transport the gas. The carbon dioxide, held in its safe, inert state, can be handled, transported and released into a controlled environment with ease and a minimal amount of energy required, Houston said at a demonstration using a diesel-powered generator a...

Ukrainian Town Under A Canopy Of Toxic Skies

...ghted three of 15 overturned tanker cars, and will transport them back to Kazakhstan, where they came from. Firefighters sprayed fire-suppressing foam on the damaged tankers to prevent new blazes. Phosphorus compounds are used chiefly in fertilizers, although they are important components of pesticides, toot...

Poor Ventilation may Cause Lung Disorders Inn Inuit Children

...nsive care, necessitating costly and difficult air transport to tertiary care hospitals in southern Canada. Inuit infants also have disproportionately high rates of permanent chronic lung disease following a lower respiratory tract infection.Contact for research: Dr. Tom Kovesi, Pediatric Resp irologist, Chil...

Indian Researcher Duo Finds Automated Tailgating can Save Fuel, Cut CO2 Emissions

... as simply building more roads or improving public transport are becoming less and less effective," said Mitra. "Automated highway systems are one of the many approaches that have been suggested to tackle the problems," he said. The findings appear in the current issue of Inderscience's International Jour...

Paris Set for Pedal Power Revolution

Paris is set for a transport revolution this weekend when a fleet of 10,000 sel...y of two million, which has one of the best public transport systems in the world, has only 150,000 bike owners. It is also rolling out a major campaign on roa...

Malaria Sweeps Tripura, 25 Dead

...n army helicopter has been pressed into service to transport medical teams and medicines to the interior areas," the official said.All hospitals in the state are crowded with patients hit by malaria. "The government would bear all expenditure for the treatment of malaria patients in hospitals," said Health Mi...

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