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Plastic May Be Poisoning Oceans: Scientists

...// Plastic - from bottles and fishing nets to the ubiquitous carrier bags - ends up in the world's oceans. Richard Thompson at the University of Plymouth is leading research into what happens when plastic breaks down in seawater and impacts marine environments, reported the online edition of BBC News. Stur...

MIT Creates 3-D Scaffold for Growing Stem Cells

...report the invention-which may one day replace the ubiquitous Petri dish for growing cells-in the Dec. 27th issue of the PLoS ONE. Shuguang Zhang, associate director of MIT's Center for Biomedical Engineering, is a pioneer in coaxing tiny fragments of amino acids called self-assembling peptides to organize them...

Avian Flu Unlikely to Spread Through Water Systems

...Giardia in water). For chlorine, which is mostly ubiquitous in U.S. drinking water, the results were less definitive. Inactivation of H5N2 depends on both chlorine concentrations and time of exposure. On average, U.S. treatment plants treat drinking water with chlorine concentrations of 1 milligram per liter ...

New Mechanism for Nutrient Uptake Discovered

...here was much more ammonia on the early Earth. The ubiquitous presence of this structure in all of the known ammonium transporters suggests that the regulation is still necessary today for all of these organisms—cyanobacteria in the ocean, fungi that grow on grapes and make our wine, plants that provide our foo...

Be Happy- Get On Your Knees And Play In The Mud

...led by Dr. Chris Lowry and team, claims that the ubiquitous soil–borne bacteria Mycobacterium vaccae, can actu...."This soil, which carries the bacteria, is pretty ubiquitous and is found almost anywhere."But we now need to find a way of getting it in our system, which we ha...

Ulcer Causing Microbe Linked To Protection From Asthma

...gen."We have evidence that helicobacter used to be ubiquitous in the environment, and it used to be acquired in childhood.“Now, we have a generation of children growing up with helicobacter in their stomachs to help regulate immunity and maybe protect against asthma and allergy. This could be an unintended cons...

Gene Responsible for Ageing Process Discovered – and Calorie Restriction Could Hel

...creatures found that the phenomenon appeared to be ubiquitous in the animal kingdom. Some scientists suggested it was an evolutionary adaptation to surviving hard times until enough food became available. The longevity-associated gene identified by Dr Dillin and his colleagues is known as PHA-4 - the name of ...

Stop Smoking, Start Living: World No Tobacco Day

...able in several forms but the popular ones are the ubiquitous cigarettes and cigars . Tobacco can also be smoked in pipes or hookahs. They can be chewed upon or snuffed too. Regional products like the bidis , manufactured in India, are also very popular. With powerful anti-smoking campaign on the rise t...

Research may Yield Improved Treatment for Diseased Lungs

...ch the body produces too much collagen, the body's ubiquitous fibrous structural protein that strengthens blood vessels. Patients with certain kinds of scleroderma also contract a kind of pulmonary hypertension that is particularly resistant to most treatments. So in a limited series of studies in such patien...

Gene Responsible for Ageing Process Discovered and Calorie Restriction Could Help

...creatures found that the phenomenon appeared to be ubiquitous in the animal kingdom. Some scientists suggested it was an evolutionary adaptation to surviving hard times until enough food became available. The longevity-associated gene identified by Dr Dillin and his colleagues is known as PHA-4 - the name of ...

Stem Cells In Belly Fat To Enhance Or Reconstruct Breasts

...company Cytori, claim that stem cells found in the ubiquitous tummy fat , can in fact be used to reconstruct breasts. If this is so, it would be killing two birds with one stone, a flatter belly and a bigger bust size. Christened Celution, the procedure involves injecting a 'supercharged' fat mixture into the ...

Cat Exposure Increases Bronchial Responsiveness

...ly expected. Furthermore, cat allergen levels were ubiquitous in cat-owning communities, and their results showed effects of cat allergen exposure at lower levels than generally regarded necessary to produce a measurable result. Based on the current research, it appears that many individuals could benefit fro...

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