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...news isn't getting better. Fortunately the only way the disease seems to spread to humans is through close contact with infected birds, although rare cases of human-to-human transmission have occurred. But if bird flu mutates and gains the ability to transmit as easily as normal flu-and scientists say that is a real possibility-it could trigger a worldwide pandemic similar to that in 1918. That prospect was raised last week, when Dr. Shigeru Omi, the World Health Organization's (WHO) regional director for the Western Pacific, estimated that such a pandemic could infect...
...Blunkett's private pain has public importance beyond the normal ups and downs of life in Westminster. He is genuinely popular as a remarkable man who overcame blindness and poverty to reach the top of British politics. But many critics also accuse him of a deep authoritarian streak. He has introduced indefinite detention without trial for foreign terror suspects; he wants everyone to carry an identity card containing biometric identifiers; he tried to cut access to jury trials and wants to tell jurors the details of some defendants' past convictions...
...they do it? By deploying a process called X-ray crystallography. First, they grew a Bace crystal. Then they exposed it to an array of X-rays. A protein is too small to be "seen" by a normal X-ray, but if run through a series of rays, it will produce a recognizable pattern of small dots - it's a bit like seeing the bear in the pattern of stars that make up Ursa Major. The crystallography technique was once used by legendary dna discoverers James Watson and Francis Crick. As Jhoti notes, "it took Watson and Crick over...
...study included 11 healthy males and measured the number of bioaerosol products per liter which were exhaled during the course of normal breathing...
Such a product isn’t worth the high prices it demands, he said. The normal price for a case of tomatoes is approximately $15, while current prices are close...