Word: bacterias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. ALFRED HERSHEY, 88, Nobel-prizewinning scientist who proved, by testing and stirring up viruses and bacteria in a household blender, that DNA carries genetic information; in Syosset...
...kill the organism and could eventually lead to an unstoppable wave of deadly infections in hospitals. First discovered in Japan, the new strain showed an "intermediate" level of resistance to the antibiotic vancomycin, which has been used worldwide to fight off Staphylococcus and other stubborn types of bacteria for the past 30 years. Dr. Francisco Sapico, an infectious disease specialist at USC's Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, told TIME Online the possibility of losing vancomycin as a weapon against Staphylococcus is cause for concern. "It would become very serious, because there are not many other antibiotics that could...
...fact, Cantor says he only began to look at the role osteopontin plays with cancer cells through dedicated research of T-cells. Years ago, Cantor found that osteopontin that was secreted by immune cells travels to infected areas. Once there, osteopontin attracts white blood cells which ingest harmful bacteria and viruses...
...alas, is ex, its reign exhausted. The era of E (or e) has begun. The e Cafe joins the top-rated television series ER, the popular magazine Entertainment Weekly (widely called EW), cbs's highly praised series EZ Streets, the irreverent E! Entertainment Television, the resurgent E. coli bacteria and the favored form of communication of the cognoscenti, E-mail, plus its multifarious electronic spin-offs, e-cash, e-commerce, et al. Can the e.e. cummings revival...
...other loves of her life--bacteria--are already well represented in the lab's test tubes...