Correction: Beef-Ammonia story In a Dec. 31 story about E. coli pathogens found in ammonia-treated beef, The Associated Press overstated the level of ...
Disinfectants commonly used in homes and medical facilities can boost the resistance of some bacteria to life-saving antibiotics, according to a study released ...
Choppers and Cheese: Wisconsin state honors sought for Harley-Davidson, cheese microbe Choppers and cheese may soon become official Wisconsin symbols. Bills to honor Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Lactococcus lactis — a bacterium used in the making of cheese — with the state symbol ...
PHYCAL: POWER FROM POND SCUM Kevin Berner, the 52-year-old CEO and founder of Phycal, is betting that green lagoons of algae are the cure for America's fossil-fuel addiction. Corn may be a good feedstock for ethanol, the nation's favorite biofuel, but algae ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Villagers in the highlands of Papua New Guinea who ritualistically ate human brains but did not die of a brain disease called kuru have a genetic mutation that protects them, researchers said Wednesday. Their study of the unusual cannibalistic ...
Study: Airborne nitrogen pollution producing junk food for fish in Rocky Mountain Park lakes Airborne nitrogen pollution from vehicle exhaust and farm fertilizer is turning algae in the alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park into junk food for fish, a study ...
Driven by fluctuations in oil prices, and seduced by the prospect of easing climate change, experts are ramping up efforts to squeeze fuel out of a promising new organism: pond scum. As it turns out, algae -- slimy, fast-growing and full of ...
Botulin intoxication is a rare but lethal condition in which a person is infected with the botulinum bacterium, which develops into a toxin that can be ingested or enter the body cutaneously (through a wound). Botulin intoxication results in fatal paralysis, usually ...
Many people associate anthrax with the 2001 outbreak of bioterrorism in the United States, though this attack was merely one of hundreds of anthrax episodes that have plagued the globe since as far back as classical Greek and Roman times. Anthrax is ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many people who have died of H1N1 swine flu in the United States have also had bacterial infections, health officials reported on Wednesday. A study of 77 patients who died of the new pandemic H1N1 virus showed 29 percent ...
Panel: Overzealous lab rules may stifle research efforts to protect against biological threats A panel of university and private-sector scientists urged Congress on Thursday not to overregulate laboratories that handle the world's deadliest pathogens, saying it could have a chilling effect on ...
This photo provided by John Kuglin shows some green algae on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009, on Lake Pokegama near Chetek, Wis. Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer ...
