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...Food and Drug Administration proposed, and the Borden Foods Co. agreed last week that all stocks of the company's powdered-milk product, Starlac, were to be recalled from stores. Reason: FDA microbiologists had found that some samples of Starlac contained salmonella bacteria, which can cause severe diarrheal disease. No cases of salmonellosis have yet been attributed to Starlac, but neither the FDA nor Borden was taking chances. The company also recalled powdered Frosted Shakes, packaged in the Starlac plant...
...year, suggest that Mars has a concentration of hydrogen compounds in its atmosphere 1,000 times greater than the earth's. Those compounds probably include methane derivatives and possibly methane itself-a finding that could be significant because methane, or "marsh gas,"* is produced on earth by anaerobic bacteria, which do not require oxygen to exist. Even if the Martian methane is not produced by living organisms, Kaplan says, its presence along with other hydrocarbons detected in the spectrograms strongly suggests the existence of free hydrogen and a chemical environment from which life could evolve...
...controllable forces of laser beams have already been used as exact surgical scalpels; at the National Institutes of Health, laser light is also being showered on cultures grown for only four hours in tiny, 2-mm. capillary tubes. The resulting scattered light can be read for presence of bacteria. Because the process is so highly accurate, the cultures do not have to be nourished for days until they grow large enough for the disease-causing microbes to be detectable. The careful placing and size of an electrical charge is the key to Peri-Start, a machine built on the principle...
FANTASTIC VOYAGE. In this preposterous, but highly entertaining science-fiction adventure, four men and a girl are reduced to the size of bacteria and injected into the bloodstream of a prominent scientist. Despite opposition from white cells, antibodies and other microscopic villains, they manage to complete their assignment: the removal of an inoperable blood clot in the scientist's brain...
...sulfadiazine and 21% to tetracycline; at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, no fewer than 65% of the E. coli and 92% of Proteus vulgaris resisted at least one important drug. Equally sobering, researchers note that antibiotics are now routinely put in livestock feed to suppress bacteria and stimulate the animals' growth. This procedure may well produce animal bacteria that transmit drug resistance to bacteria that infect humans; indeed, such new strains may be resistant to all penicillins and tetracyclines...