Word: bacterias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...asked by the South African health authorities to supply infant formula at reduced cost for their extremely important health program aimed at saving lives by preventing HIV transmission from mothers to babies. The health authorities have chosen NAN Pelargon, a biologically acidified formula that inhibits the growth of harmful bacteria in the prepared feed. The government buys the formula, following an official tendering process, at reduced prices and gives it to HIV-positive mothers who choose not to breastfeed their babies. We are pleased that the government has confidence in Nestlé and in our products...
...Charles H. “Chuck” Turner ’62 said at the meeting that he lacked confidence in BU’s safety procedures. Turner referred to a 2004 incident in which three BU researchers fell ill after unknowingly handling a contaminated strain of the bacteria tularemia...
...pervasiveness of exotic microbial life, which some experts suspect forms a hidden biosphere extending down miles [beneath the earth] whose total mass may exceed that of all surface life." Oh, and another study reported this week that the air we breathe is full of a far greater diversity of bacteria than we have known, including bacteria causing botulism and typhus, "lifted into the air from soil, lakes, sewer plants..." Also, meningitis bacteria were found on a man who had been playing Santa Claus at a Toledo, Ohio, mall...
...They're everywhere, they're tougher and more deeply rooted than we are - and maybe, just maybe, they're going to be a lot easier to work with than, say, Sunnis and Shi'ites. The Associated Press this week quoted a microbiologist as saying, "For decades, doctors have treated bacteria in a 'warlike' manner, yet recent research shows that 'most encounters we have with microbes are very beneficial...
...only that, but according to the MIT Technology Review, researchers are developing ways to make the little rascals friendlier - injecting bits of DNA into bacteria to make them "glow, detect light," or even smell sweet. "Minty-fresh foot fungus" is projected as a real possibility. Of course, so was democracy in Iraq, but why drag that...