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...million SPINACH Following deaths linked to E. coli--contaminated spinach, recalls in 2006 cost the industry 20% of its business...
...Sunday evening, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the recall of 143 million pounds of beef due to fears of infection by E. coli, salmonella, and mad cow disease. It was the biggest meat recall in US history, four times larger than the previous record. More alarmingly, the recall affected over 37 million pounds of hamburgers, tacos, and sandwiches served through America’s school lunch program, with the USDA sheepishly admitting that most of that total had already been consumed by the nation’s youngsters...
...everyone believes he will succeed - or if he does, that it will matter much. Corporate giants like DuPont already put synthetic biology to industrial use. In the company's Loudon, Tenn., plant, for example, billions of E. coli bacteria stew inside massive tanks. The bacteria's genomes contain 23 alterations that instruct it to digest sugar from corn and produce propane diol, a polyester used in carpets, clothing and plastics. The hard-working bugs churn out 100 million lbs. (45 million kg) of the stuff each day, and all it took was a little tinkering with their genomes...
...American Naturalist explains just why Ebola is spreading among the animals so furiously - and shows how it could be stopped, according to lead author Peter Walsh of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Leipzig, Germany. The epidemiological tactics used to treat outbreaks of human scourges like E. coli hold the answer. Ebola is transmitted by contact with body fluids, and it's rapidly fatal. When people get it, they become so sick so fast - their organs literally liquefy - that others try to stay away from them. What's more, the mere fact of their quick immobility means they...
...American Naturalist explains just why Ebola is spreading among the animals so furiously--and shows how it could be stopped, according to lead author Peter Walsh of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Leipzig, Germany. The epidemiological tactics used to treat outbreaks of human scourges like E. coli hold the answer...