Word: bacterias
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When NASA claimed in 1995 that it had found evidence of ancient life in the Martian meteorite at left, there were plenty of skeptics. Now comes a paper in Science arguing that organic chemicals in the rock come mostly from contamination on Earth rather than bacteria on Mars. That doesn't prove Martian microbes didn't sleep here--but it weakens the case...
...results of a Harvard investigation won't be ready for several months), two recent papers from Israel and the Czech Republic seem to support the resistant-strain theory. Says Thomas Bell, health officer for three counties in Washington State: "How do you induce resistance among a population of insects, bacteria or whatever? You expose the population to a sublethal dose of the chemical you're trying to kill them with, and that way you select for the strongest...
Hudson Beef sold after E coli bacteria is found...
...Bill Clinton and other hamburger-loving Americans, nothing could have been scarier. At the height of the barbecue season last August, more than a dozen people became seriously ill from ground beef contaminated by a virulent strain of bacteria known as E. coli 0157:H7, which was traced to a Columbus, Neb., processing plant. The incident prompted the nation's largest meat recall, a whopping 25 million lbs. of beef patties. It also brought a vow from gourmand Clinton to wage a major war for food safety...
...food industry, the controversy-plagued technology uses powerful gamma rays released by the common medical radioisotope cobalt 60 or streams of high-energy electrons from an accelerator. The bug-zapping power of the process is undisputed. The ionizing radiation, millions of times stronger than ordinary X rays, kills molds, bacteria and small insects by wrecking their DNA, while leaving the exposed food virtually unchanged and radiation free. As a side benefit, it also eliminates the need for fumigants...