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...WATERS Don't assume bottled water is always cleaner or safer than tap, warns an environmental advocacy group. The Natural Resources Defense Council tested 1,000 samples of 103 brands and found that while the quality of most samples was fine, at least a third had levels of bacteria and chemicals that exceeded the industry's own purity guidelines. Nearly a quarter violated California's stringent standards for chemicals such as arsenic. The industry stands by its brands; so, it seems, does the government. Federal agencies, says the NRDC, don't test bottled water as frequently as they test what...
...scientific tour de force, Florey, Chain and their colleagues rapidly purified penicillin in sufficient quantity to perform the experiment that Fleming could not: successfully treating mice that had been given lethal doses of bacteria. Within a year, their results were published in a seminal paper in the Lancet. As the world took notice, they swiftly demonstrated that injections of penicillin caused miraculous recoveries in patients with a variety of infections...
...knighthood (with Florey) in 1944 and the Nobel Prize for Medicine (with Florey and Chain) in 1945. By this time, even Fleming was aware that penicillin had an Achilles' heel. He wrote in 1946 that "the administration of too small doses ... leads to the production of resistant strains of bacteria." It's a problem that plagues us to this...
...Deep-sea vents are found near the Galapagos Islands. The hot, sulfurous water around the vents supports new species of bacteria and sea life...
...Food and Drug Administration approves the first genetically engineered drug: bacteria-produced insulin for diabetics...