Study shows how Salmonella survives in environment

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have demonstrated how a single-celled organism, living freely in the environment, could be a source of Salmonella transmission to animals and humans. Salmonella are microscopic living creatures that can contaminate almost any food type, causing diar...

The Center for Plastic Surgery in Washington, DC Survives the Economy Despite Nationwide Data Reported by ASAPS

According to a recent survey conducted by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the number of cosmetic surgeries performed nationwide decreased by over 15 percent in 2008. Despite this sharp decline nationally, the flow of patients at the Center for Plastic Surgery, Washington, DC...

Micro-Preemie Survives to Become March of Dimes 2009 National Ambassador

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Born no larger than a ballpoint pen at birth, a premature baby girl who survived overwhelming odds has been named the 2009 National Ambassador for the March of Dimes, it was announced today. Katelyn Marie Ha...

Medical Mystery, 8-Year-Old Hussein Balhas From Lebanon Survives Rare Disease Against All Odds, and Looks for Hope and Solutions From American Doctors

ALO Cultural Foundation coordinates massive effort on behalf of boy LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- It is the year 2000 in Lebanon, and a young mother searches for a doctor to deliver her baby. The first one turns her away after examining the x-ray. Another recommends termination, bu...

The Blessing of a Brain Injury: Author Survives Injury to Brain Following Stroke, Uses Injury as Fuel to Overcome Odds

EDMONTON, Alberta, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- What would you do if you suddenly found yourself unable to walk or talk? Tommy Beel ate properly, never smoked, wasn't a drinker, exercised and got an adequate amount of sleep each night. At the young age of 32, he suffered a stroke. In his new book, ...

30-year-old Woman Survives 'internal Decapitation'

30-year-old Shannon Malloy, critically injured in a car accident, skull separating from her spine, has survived to tell her story. Doctors call her recovery a miracle. A car crash slammed her into the dashboard. Her skull separated from her spine, although her skin, spinal cord and other int...

'Miracle Child' Survives Abandonment and Critical Heart Surgery

She was abandoned by her biological parents a few hours after birth and left to drown in an irrigation canal in Punjab //. But the little infant survived that and has even undergone a critical heart surgery. The infant, who is being described as a ...

Man Survives 32 Deaths

A 49-year-old engineer Leslie Hackwell is reported to have died 32 times in a matter of 20 minutes after having suffered a heart attack on 12 July 2005.// Leslie Hackwell had to be resuscitated after the succession of cardiac arrests. He paid tribute to the medical practitioners who treated him aft...

Medical Breakthrough - Kidney Transplant Recipient Survives Without Drugs

In what can be called a medical breakthrough, a Singaporean, who had a bone marrow transplant in July last year, survived a recent kidney transplant operation without taking drugs to prevent rejection//. Koh Hock Heng, 43, was diagnosed with kidney failure four years ago. Two years later, docto...

Peptic ulcer bacterium alters the body's defense system

... Helicobacter pylori survives in the body by manipulating important immune system cells. This is shown in a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Swe...

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Fat transfer

...he fat and how the prepared fat cells are put back into the patient and the site to which the fat was moved. Doctors Summer and Sattler found that fat survives equally well when removed with suction via liposuction or when withdrawn by a syringe. The issue of survivability seems most affected by where in th...

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Straw bale house survives violent shaking at earthquake lab

RENO, Nev. It huffed and puffed, but the 82-ton-force, earthquake-simulation shake table could not knock down the straw house designed and built by University of Nevada, Reno alumna and civil engineer Darcey Donovan. The full-scale, 14-by-14-foot straw house, complete with gravel foundation a...

Salmonella survives better in stomach due to altered DNA

Since 1995 there has been a considerable increase in the number of infections with a specific type of Salmonella bacteria transmitted via food. This type, Salmonella serovar Typhimurium DT104, is resistant to at least five different antibiotics. Dutch researcher Armand Hermans found new genetic inf...

Scientists reveal how disease bacterium survives inside immune system cell

New research on a bacterium that can survive encounters with specific immune system cells has strengthened scientists' belief that these plentiful white blood cells, known as neutrophils, dictate whether our immune system will permit or prevent bacterial infections. A paper describing the research ...

Understanding how weeds are resistant to herbicides

... -- you're selecting for that rare plant or mutation that will survive. When you do that, and you kill all of the siblings that are weaker, the mutant survives and all of its progenies will survive and that's how resistance evolves. It's evolution in action," said Tranel. This genomic data will also help i...

New Southern California beetle killing oaks

...seasonal active periods, host preferences, and natural enemies in its native Arizona and Mexico habitat. Further research will also demonstrate how it survives and spreads through oak firewood. ...

Shorter wait means longer life for kidney transplant candidates

... GAINESVILLE, Fla. How long a patient survives after a kidney transplant could depend on where he or she signs up to get the surgery, new research from the University of Florida shows. The short...

Genetic adaptations key to microbe's survival in challenging environment

...n open-access publication published by the Public Library of Science. The research focused on the bacterium Nautilia profundicola , a microbe that survives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Microorganisms that thrive at these geysers on the sea floor must adapt to fluctuations in temperature and oxygen le...

Maintaining the brain's wiring in aging and disease

...d by the Alzheimer's Research Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), have discovered that the brain's circuitry survives longer than previously thought in diseases of ageing such as Alzheimer's disease. The findings were published today in the journal Brain . Alzheim...

No place like home: New theory for how salmon, sea turtles find their birthplace

...mann said one problem making it difficult to test the new theory is the low survival rate of sea turtles. Only one out of about 4,000 baby sea turtles survives to adulthood and returns to its natal site to breed. A similarly small percentage of baby fish survive. Lohmann also notes that if the theory is c...

Potent greenhouse gas more prevalent in atmosphere than previously assumed

...enhouse gas emissions signed by 182 countries. The gas is 17,000 times more potent as a global warming agent than a similar mass of carbon dioxide. It survives in the atmosphere about five times longer than carbon dioxide. Current NF3 emissions, however, contribute only about 0.15 percent of the total global ...

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Biotech Survives Market Turbulence in November

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ - Wall Street closed out a volatile month and although the Dow ended the final week of November with gains, it still posted a 4% decline for November. This was even in wake of its biggest percentage gain in four and a half years during the month. "Investors r...

PDS survives with technological reinvention

Oconomowoc, Wis. - Craig Schiefelbein believes in reincarnation - in the business sense. What else could explain the six - and still counting - reiterations of his company, Paragon Development Systems, Inc. , a technology services provider celebrating its 20 th anniversary with a very import...

Ganeden Biotech Introduces GanPro(TM) Direct-Fed Microbial for Livestock

...ealth and naturally promote feed conversion in livestock. Enhanced with one of Ganeden Biotech's patented strains of Bacillus coagulans , GanPro survives pelleting and other manufacturing processes as well as the harsh stomach environment of the animal. GanPro delivers consistent results, is cost-effect...

Nephros Exhibiting at Maryland Ashe Conference July 20th-23rd

...am recently announced that, beginning in October 2008, it will no longer pay extra costs associated with certain types of HAIs. A variety of pathogens survives and even thrives in hospital plumbing systems despite chemical and heat-based treatments designed to eradicate them. "Hospitals and related healthca...

Isabella's Healthy Bakery Unveils Activate - A New Probiotic Muffin Fortified with GanedenBC30 Probiotic

...c to our muffins, our R&D team looked at me like I was crazy," explains Curtis. "But after we were introduced to GanedenBC30 and saw first hand how it survives the intense heat of our baking ovens, we were all sold." Ganeden's Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Sean Farmer explains, "GanedenBC30 stands apart f...

Turtle Island Soup Gets 'Souped Up' with New Probiotic, GandenBC30

... manufactured by the consumer healthcare company Ganeden Biotech ( http://www.digestiveadvantage.com/index.html ). Some benefits to GanedenBC30 are it survives stomach acid better than the probiotic cells used in most yogurts, does not require refrigeration, has up to a two year shelf and is self-affirmed GRA...

DuPont Expands Animal Health Solutions Business in Asia

...houses with a heavy duty multipurpose cleanser -- Regular, thorough and effective disinfection of poultry houses -- the avian influenza virus survives well in water so washing with water alone may actually assist transmission DuPont is among the leading companies introducing biosecurity offerin...

Ganeden Biotech Takes Sustenex(TM) National with GanedenBC30 Probiotic

...aily supplement developed by Ganeden Biotech, containing 2 billion cells of GanedenBC30, which is a patented strain of Bacillus coagulans. GanedenBC30 survives the hostile environment of the stomach, colonizes the intestines, and produces lactic acid, which are all critical components to the success of a prob...

MichBio Responds to Governor's Plan to Repeal Tort Reform Laws

... drugs and medical devices are the most regulated products around, Rapundalo said, "Less than 1/100 of a percent of potential medications investigated survives the FDA regulatory review gauntlet and become product launches. The contention that lay juries with no medical or science training, or understanding o...

Ganeden Biotech Obtains Self-Affirmed GRAS Status for Probiotic Ingredient, GanedenBC30 (Bacillus coagulans GBI-30, 6086)

...ld against the manufacturing process, shelf life and stomach acids and intestinal bile," explains Farmer. "Because of this unique make-up, GanedenBC30 survives the hostile environment of the stomach, colonizes the intestines, and produces lactic acid, which are all critical factors to the success of a probiot...

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Antibiotic

...uires that as close as possible to 100% of the infecting organisms be killed off to avoid selection of resistance; if a small subset of the population survives the treatment and is allowed to multiply, the average susceptibility of this new population to the compound will be much less than that of the origina...

Francis Galton

...versy between Herschel and Faulds that was to last until 1917 ), identifying common pattern in fingerprints and devising a classification system that survives to this day. He also estimated the probability of two persons having the same fingerprint and studied the heritability and racial differences in finge...

Human

...many people further believe that humans also have a soul or spirit that survives death ; that is, they believe there is an afterlife . There is debate wit...e harvests, and so on. Most animistic belief systems hold that the spirit survives physical death. In some systems, the spirit is believed to pass to an easie...

T cell

...hese antigens, they die by apoptosis. Only those cells survive that do not recognize them. Other T cells die by apoptosis (a small fraction actually survives but normally is controlled so it does not cause autoimmune diseases). This process is called negative selection . T cells go into apoptosis if they...

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Asexual reproduction

...oa and ... Asexual Reproduction . Sexual ... explores the question of sexual versus asexual reproduction . ... If asexual reproduction survives at all, conditions must sometimes favor it, ... ...