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Helping chlorine-eating bacteria clean up toxic waste
06-20-2007 · EurekAlert!By combining lab experiments with computer modeling, Cornell researchers hope to learn how bacteria that break down pollutants do their job and then make them more effective in cleaning up toxic waste.
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01-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has been helping the Department of Energy analyze the genome of a "paper-eating" bacterium that could have uses in producing ethanol, but also shed light on how "gliding" bacteria move. The two functions could be related.
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- Manual dishwashing study digs up dirt on dish cleanliness
02-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
New research answers an infectious question about eating at restaurants: How clean are manually washed dishes? They found that even when they washed dishes in cooler-than-recommended water, numbers of bacteria on the dishware dropped to levels accepted in the Food and Drug Administration's Food Code. They also found that certain foods -- especially cheese and milk -- can be safe havens for bacteria when dried onto dishware. Lipstick, however, proved to be dangerous to bacteria.
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11-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Study: Sticking to the sand might not be such good, clean fun for beachgoers
08-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
Microbes that result in beach closures and health advisories when detected at unsafe levels in the ocean also have been detected in the sand, according to a study by Stanford University scientists.The study found that sand at beaches all along the California coast contained some level of fecal indicator bacteria. At one popular beach in Monterey, Calif., they found evidence of human waste -- raising doubt about the commonly held belief that some fecal indictor bacteria occur naturally in the sand and are therefore benign.
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- House dust may protect against allergic disease early in life
05-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
Endotoxin, a toxic substance made by certain types of bacteria, may reduce the risk of developing the allergic skin condition eczema or wheezing in children if they are exposed to it up to age 3, suggests a study presented at the American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference, on Sunday, May 20.
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- MIT and ABB form energy research partnership
01-24-2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MIT and Switzerland-based ABB, a global leader in power and automation technology, have formed a partnership to conduct and support a variety of energy research projects with the aim of helping meet the world's need for clean electricity and energy efficiency.
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- Genome sequencing reveals key to viable ethanol production
03-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
As the national push for alternative energy sources heats up, researchers at the University of Rochester have for the first time identified how genes responsible for biomass breakdown are turned on in a microorganism that produces valuable ethanol from materials like grass and cornstalks.Waste products such as grass clippings and wood chips -- once thought too difficult to turn into ethanol -- may soon be fodder for hungry, gene-tweaked bacteria.
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- Bacteria show promise in fending off global amphibian killer
05-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
First in a petri dish and now on live salamanders, probiotic bacteria seem to repel a deadly fungus being blamed for worldwide amphibian deaths and even extinctions. Though the research is in its early stages, scientists are encouraged by results that could lead the way to helping threatened species like mountain yellow-legged frogs of the Sierra Nevada mountains of southern California.
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- Calorie density key to losing weight
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Eating smart, not eating less, may be the key to losing weight. A year-long clinical trial by Penn State researchers shows that diets focusing on foods that are low in calorie density can promote healthy weight loss while helping people to control hunger.
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- New microscope peers into secret lives of cells
11-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
The University of Delaware's new laser-scanning confocal microscope, based in the Bio-imaging Center at UD's Delaware Biotechnology Institute, is helping researchers explore a diversity of intriguing subjects, from plants that can decontaminate soils of toxic metal pollutants, to carbon nano-bombs for destroying cancer cells. UD is among a handful of universities that own one of the million-dollar instruments.
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