Researchers Develop Technologies to Devour Food Pathogens

Purdue researchers are developing two inexpensive technologies that may be able to prevent future food-borne illness//, such as the recent outbreak of E. coli in contaminated spinach. Together, these technologies rapidly detect and eradicate food-borne pathogens. The first method uses a ...

Long Term Care Newsletter Helps Preserve Solvency & Sanity While Caring for Loved One

...h., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- If you suddenly have to care for an incapacitated parent or spouse, the impact can be life-changing. Rising care costs can devour your estate or inheritance. And your loved one's daily needs can make you into a full-time caregiver. *(PHOTO 72dpi: Send2Press.com/mediaboom/08-022...

A Happy Halloween Means Safety First

...s and president of the American Dietetic Association, said that when children have a bag full of Halloween treats, their natural inclination may be to devour as much as they can as quickly as possible. In order to control consumption, parents need to do some pre-planning, she said. "Start ahead of time. ...

UT Southwestern researcher named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator

...ine, holder of the Jay P. Sanford Professorship in Infectious Diseases, is a renowned specialist in the study of autophagy, the process by which cells devour their own unwanted or damaged parts. Dr. Levine said she is honored to be named an investigator. Its really exciting to be able to have this H...

Ozone Breaks Down Lungs' Defenses

...ury in response to bacterial toxins. The rodents also showed increased "programmed cell death" of the type of innate immune system cells that normally devour foreign invaders and keep the airways clear. The innate immune system -- the most primitive part of the body's defenses -- reacts indiscriminately ...

Just in Time for Fall Baking and Entertaining: The Sneaky Chef Tips Featuring Eagle Mills All-Purpose Flour made with Ultragrain(R)

... ingenious ingredients and simple substitutions, the Sneaky Chef can help parents in the never-ending quest for healthy foods that their children will devour happily. Below are some "sneaky" tips, along with a few examples of how to use The Sneaky Chef's signature purees in family-friendly dishes: -- Alway...

Customized virus kills brain tumor stem cells that drive lethal cancer

...normal cells, Fueyo and colleagues deleted a small part of the gene that produces E1A. The JNCI paper shows that Delta-24-RGD forces tumor cells to devour themselves until they die. This self-cannibalization, called autophagy, occurs when a cell forms a membrane around part of its cytoplasm or an organel...

Outsourcing Farming, a Chinese Initiative

... nearly double the amount shipped in 2004. Early indications are that Brazil has produced yet another record crop, and analysts expect that China will devour most of it. But there are complaints. Growers in the state of Mato Grosso amassed 14.5 billion US dollars in debt in the last two years. Farmer...

Cannibalistic Signals Help Mammalian Embryos Develop Normally

...annibalistic signals to have their corpses purged, a last gasp that paves the way for normal mammalian// development. Autophagy is the way cells devour their own unwanted or damaged parts. It was known to be active in cell death that occurs during normal embryonic development, but its precise role was...

Permanent Weight Loss Requires Transition to Healthy Eating

...the meal or eat a salad so that the stomach is active," Benecke suggests. Watching television while eating is a distraction that often leads people to devour more than necessary. Also, when pots of steaming food remain on the table, people tend to reach for more. It's not as easy to do that if the food rema...

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Researchers develop technologies to devour food pathogens

Purdue researchers are developing two inexpensive technologies that may be able to prevent future food-borne illness, such as the recent outbreak of E. coli in contaminated spinach. Together, these technologies rapidly detect and eradicate food-borne pathogens. The first method uses a laser t...

URI researcher sheds light on 'man-eating' squid; finds them timid, nonthreatening

..."alarmist" and says the squid's man-eating reputation is seriously overblown. For years Seibel has heard stories claiming that Humboldt squid will devour a dog in minutes and could kill or maim unsuspecting divers. "Private dive companies in Mexico play up this myth by insisting that their customer...

URI researcher sheds light on 'man-eating' squid; finds them timid, non-threatening

..."alarmist" and says the squid's man-eating reputation is seriously overblown. For years Seibel has heard stories claiming that Humboldt squid will devour a dog in minutes and could kill or maim unsuspecting divers. "Private dive companies in Mexico play up this myth by insisting that their customer...

UCSB scientists document fate of huge oil slicks from seeps at coal oil point

... study, and its success is a testament to Chris's perseverance." In an earlier paper published in 2008, Valentine and Reddy documented how microbes devour many of the compounds in the oil emanating from the seeps. The new study examines the final step in the life cycle of the oil. "One of the natural ...

Worm genome offers clues to evolution of parasitism

...dirt, P. pacificus makes its home in an unusual ecological niche: it lives together with oriental beetles in the United States and Japan in order to devour the bacteria, fungi and other small roundworms that grow on beetle carcasses after they have died. While the beetles are alive and the nematodes' food...

Smithsonian researchers show major role of bats in plant protection

...that in the tropical forest understory bats can be more effective pest control agents than birds. Caterpillars, katydids, beetles and other insects devour tropical plant leaves. Plants directly defend themselves by producing tough leaves and toxic chemicals. Phyllis Coley, STRI research associate and Uni...

Floating a big idea: MIT demos ancient use of rafts to transport goods

...s had to do with shipworms-how quickly and under what conditions would they devour the rafts? And were shipworms always present along that Pacific coast, or w...oft, and doesn't have silicates in it like most wood, they are able to just devour it very quickly, Dewan said. It turns into something like cottage cheese in...

Rare albino ratfish has eerie, silvery sheen

...sh collection. "Why didn't it get eaten, long before this, by some predator, for example, by a spiny dogfish so common in Puget Sound and that love to devour ratfish"" The foot-long female may have been 2 or 3 years old, Reum and Pietsch estimate, making her a teenager in the ratfish world. She was caug...

Protein found to shield pancreatic cancer cells from self-destruction

... An overexpressed protein protects human pancreatic cancer cells from being forced to devour themselves, removing one of the body's natural defenses against out-of-control cell growth, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Canc...

Targeted virus compels cancer cells to eat themselves

... An engineered virus tracks down and infects the most common and deadly form of brain cancer and then kills tumor cells by forcing them to devour themselves, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report this week in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Th...

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No time for evolution in telecommunications

...inesses are changing their demands for products and services far faster than any market research could fathom. They are empowered by information. They devour it and need constant access to it. The telecommunications industry is not for the faint of heart. Surviving will take passion and perseverance. C...