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What's Lurking in Your Kitchen?

FORT WAYNE, Ind., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Exactly how clean is your kitchen? Not as immaculate as you might imagine says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to the CDC, while surfaces may look clean, many infectious germs may be lurking around(i). A regul...

Ask Supermodel Kate Moss... Serious Dangers are Lurking in Nail Salons

SaniManiPedi Offers Protection, Minimizing Manicure and Pedicure Risks San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 23, 2009 -- As news broke this week that Kate Moss is on medication to combat an infection contracted after a pedicure, it is not hard to believe that a trip to the sa...

Dangers Lurking in the Garden in Britain

Gardening is a wonderful hobby but one has to take care of the dangers that lurk in your garden. There are a number of hazardous and harmful plants that children and the adult alike fall prey to. The poison ivy, for example is the most common of them all. This weedy plant, each year caus...

Dangers Lurking in Soft, Cuddly Toys

New Delhi: Children are being exposed to the risk of liver damage or disruption in mental health due to alarming levels of lead and cadmium found in plastic and other soft toys //sold in Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai, says a new study. "Dangerous levels of lead and cadmium have been found in PVC (...

The Lurking Tsunami: Are We Ready?

"The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it" ……..Homer in 'Smyrns of Chios'// On the fateful morning of the 26th of December 2004, giant killer waves struck the Indian coastline, wrecking havoc that was unprecedented in both its severity and impact. These wav...

New Study Shows Daily Sex Can Increase Sperm Count

...ot; says James. "Simultaneously, clean up your diet. Choose organic meats and poultry when at all possible and do all that you can to eliminate lurking xenohormones from your environment." James' upcoming new book, "In the Mood Again," ( Simon & Schuster , January 2010), will ...

Harmful Bacteria May Hide on Soft Surfaces in Your Home

...coccus bacteria can live on them for months.(1) Families now have a partner to help keep their home healthy and protected from harmful bacteria lurking on soft surfaces. LYSOL(R) Disinfectant Spray, the brand families trust to help protect them from bacteria and viruses on hard surfaces, is also appr...

Five Secrets Your Bed Won't Tell You

...1, 2009 -- Beds are a sanctuary - a safe haven for rest and rejuvenation. But if most people - particularly allergy sufferers - really knew what was lurking beneath the sheets, they might think that their bed is more like a litter box than a sanctuary. Lying beneath the cleanest, most luxurious l...

Five Secrets Your Bed Won't Tell You

...Newswire/ -- Beds are a sanctuary - a safe haven for rest and rejuvenation. But if most people - particularly allergy sufferers - really knew what was lurking beneath the sheets, they might think that their bed is more like a litter box than a sanctuary. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090...

Correct Shopping Posture: A Dozen Medical Stocking Stuffers to Get You Through the Holidays Pain-Free. Don't Let Shopping Put a Crimp in Your Christmas, or Your Back

...Nashville, "I have seen the simplest activities cause great pain and injury." Not to sound like Kris Kringle, Dr. Obersteadt points out that lurking beneath that beautifully wrapped gift tucked beneath your elegantly dressed fir is a pinched nerve, and romping around on the floor with the kids is a...

Lurking in Biological News

Climate change may wake up 'sleeper' weeds

...den of weed control," Dr Scott said. "One critical unknown is what these lurking weeds will do under climate change. Will their distributions change? Will t...oduced plants would produce a 'vacuum' in northern Australia so, to prevent lurking species from invading, a new list of alert and sleeper weeds for this regio...

Johns Hopkins researchers detect sweet cacophony while listening to cellular cross-talk

... Johns Hopkins scientists were dubious in the early 1980s when they stumbled on small sugar molecules lurking in the centers of cells; not only were they not supposed to be there, but they certainly weren't supposed to be repeatedly attaching to and detaching ...

Hidden infections crucial to understanding, controlling disease outbreaks

... focus on the number of dead and gravely ill during epidemics, but research at the University of Michigan suggests that less dramatic, mild infections lurking in large numbers of people are the key to understanding cycles of at least one potentially fatal infectious disease: cholera. Using a model develop...

Modest CO2 cutbacks may be too little, too late for coral reefs

...ngerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system." But scientists have come to realize that an even more acute danger than climate change is lurking in the world's oceansone that is likely to be triggered by CO2 levels that are modest by climate standards. Ocean acidification could devastate cor...

New mechanical insights into wound healing and scar tissue formation

...n wound healing and scar tissue formation. When we are injured, the body launches a complex rescue operation. Specialized cells called fibroblasts lurking just beneath the surface of the skin jump into action, enter the provisional wound matrix (the clot) and start secreting collagen to close the wound a...

Divers find new species in Aleutians

... Fairbanks, ALASKA-- There are unknown creatures lurking under the windswept islands of the Aleutians, according to a team of scientific divers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This summer, while ...

Biologists expose hidden costs of firefly flashes

... MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- A new study by biologists at Tufts University has discovered a dark side lurking behind the magical light shows put on by fireflies each summer. Using both laboratory and field experiments to explore the potential costs of firefly ...

Targeting tumors the natural way

...lls typically display higher levels of certain receptors on their surfaces than do normal cells, a fact that allows scientists to pinpoint tumor cells lurking among the body's scores of cell types. A popular approach employs a cell-binding agent, such as a monoclonal antibody, that is powerfully attracted to...

Ocean seep mollusks may share evolutionary history with other deep-sea creatures

...g waters, but similar chemically challenging environments exist at hydrothermal vents, fissures in the ocean floor where water is superheated by magma lurking just below the crust. Although seep and vent fluids are a poisonous brew for most species, animals such as giant tube worms and the mollusks studie...

A new understanding of how cells defend themselves against bacterial pore-forming toxins

...o repair the cell membrane, stopping the potassium leak, which itself can kill the cell, and also protecting the cell from additional toxic substances lurking outside. "This result is important, because it also explains so much in terms of basic cell physiology," notes Van der Goot. If a cell absorbs too...

Lurking in Biological Technology

Use it or lose it? Researchers investigate the dispensability of our DNA

...uencing revealed only about 20,000, accounting for less than 2% of the entire genome. Previously, Dr. Gill Bejerano of Stanford University found that lurking within the other 98% of the genome are stretches of sequences, known as ultraconserved elements, which are identical between humans and animals such a...

New USP 797 Regulations May Create New Hazards for Compounding Pharmacy Directors

...g program may impact a facility's capability to maintain compliance. "Compounding pharmacy directors need to recognize the series of potential hazards lurking for them within the 'hidden impacts' of the new regulations." Those hazards, he said, include: -- Bi-annual testing will not capture seasonal blooms...

Georgia Showcases its Bioscience Leadership at 2008 Bio International Convention

...., Room 29A) a. Team Lead, Molecular Virology & Vaccines Branch, Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2. lurking in the Shadows: Are You Prepared for the Next Threat? (June 17, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., Room 27AB) a. Stephen A. Morse, PhD, Chair, Associate...

Is Your Company Risk Appropriate?

...characteristics. First, the opportunity offers growth potential that justifies high rates of return. Compound annual growth rate ("CAGR") is a tiger lurking in the shadows: if a VC wants a 25% total return over 5 years, and expects half of her investments to fail, then each successful investment has to ret...

Part 5 Project Performance Get on the path to continuous improvement

...ho originally defined the processes you call your own, you would find the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) lurking in the shadows. The SEI is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie ...

It's 99 percent certain: Research cannot rely on adult stem cells alone

...y also exhibit genetic defects from exposure to toxins and sunlight. Perhaps most important, the targeted disease for stem cell therapy may already be lurking in the adult stem cells. Because of restrictions on how federal research dollars can be used, more money is being focused today on adult than embry...

The end of technology history

...that temple of nerdom, www.slashdot.org is showing signs of infections. Yeah, the first four postings today were about new versions of software, but lurking down the list was a bit on IP rights. I didn't think I'd ever find myself advocating for a little more focus on the technology, but here we go. Fac...

Fire your CIO? If he's not implementing strategy, show him the door

...cess rather than talking tech. With concerted effort, you will finally sit at the table with the CEO, a trusted advisor and executor rather than a lurking cost on the periphery of the C-suite, biding your time until the axe falls. Previous article by Patrick Gray Patrick Gray: Five steps to buy...

Lack of connectivity is real estate's hidden time bomb

... of these groups have provided 20 to 50 percent returns to their investors. These are great returns on investment, but are there any hidden time bombs lurking behind the marble facades and talking elevators? What many of these acquisition groups fail to look at are the technology issues associated with bu...