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...each prominently displayed Corayer’s cell number across the bottom. Svirsky and his friends postered every dorm and doorbox in Harvard Yard. “It was a great idea,” says Svirsky, tooting his own proverbial horn. “It was harmless and will probably last for months.” But some callers didn’t get the gag. Corayer describes one caller who, he says, “couldn’t believe” the joke. “She was really hungry, I guess,” Corayer says...
...guide, the pills will contain no more than trace elements of Tamiflu's active ingredient. Less than a month ago, authorities in San Francisco announced the confiscation of 51 packages of phony Tamiflu ordered through the Internet and shipped from Asia. Tests on those pills found only harmless ingredients, but experts worry that in an outbreak, people might take such pills and consider themselves protected...
...Attackers can take control of a Windows PC by luring users to visit websites where their browser automatically downloads specially coded image files. The tainted files are saved in the Windows Metafile (WMF) format, but can be labeled as seemingly harmless JPEG and GIF files, the most common type of images found in webpages and e-mails. Researchers say attackers use the entry point to install hidden programs that can launch pop-up ads or steal passwords and other sensitive information...
...sheets. That, in turn, would mean lower-cost solar energy because nanosize silicon is a more efficient converter of solar energy to electricity than previously used materials. It could also mean a nanoparticle light "bulb" that would outlive you. What's more, silicon (as in sand) is abundant and harmless. "It's brand-new technology," says InnovaLight CEO Conrad Burke, 39. "We're in a leading position. We're going to do something that has an impact on people's lives...
...where Keasling comes in. He's focusing his lab's work on producing synthetic artemisinin to drive down the price per dose to pennies. Keasling and his team at Berkeley have already worked out how to extract the genes responsible for making artemisinin and transplanted them into a harmless strain of E. coli. Now they're furiously working those 100-hour weeks to reroute the metabolic traffic in the microbe and produce oodles of artemisinin...