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Vicks Nasal Spray Recalled

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 - 18:25:19 - Anuradha Menon

Procter & Gamble has recalled some 120,000 bottles of Vicks Sinex nasal spray because of possible bacterial contamination. Three lots of the product...

A Step Forward for Microbial Machines

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 - 16:18:08 - Anuradha Menon

In a deft act of genomic manipulation, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute, in Rockville, MD, transplanted a bacterial genome into yeast...

Staving Off Ecological Disaster In Lungs

Saturday, August 8th, 2009 - 10:29:26 - Anuradha Menon

Viewing the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis as troubled ecosystems that need to be managed may lead to new ways of treating bacterial...

MRSA's 'Weak Point' Visualised by Scientists

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 - 16:39:57 - Anuradha Menon

An enzyme that lives in MRSA and helps the dangerous bacterium to grow and spread infection through the human body has been visualised for the first...

Nitric Oxide Shown to Cause Colon Cancer

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 - 10:14:13 - Anuradha Menon

Researchers long ago established a link between inflammation, cancer and the compound nitric oxide, which may be produced when the immune system...

Do-it-Yourself Biology

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 - 12:08:19 - Anuradha Menon

Building a cell from scratch is a lot more complicated than building a computer. But that's just what synthetic biologists, including many at MIT...

Disabling Tomato Plant's 'Intruder Alarm'

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 - 09:37:33 - Ehud Rattner

How a bacterium overcomes a tomato plant's defenses and causes disease, by sneakily disabling the plant's intruder detection systems, is revealed in...

Scientists Assemble Whole Bacterial Genome

Saturday, December 6th, 2008 - 12:28:00 - Anuradha Menon

Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, have published a paper describing a significant...

Bacterial Crisis Command Centre Revealed

Sunday, October 5th, 2008 - 12:19:08 - Anuradha Menon

A bacteria cell's 'crisis command centre' has been observed for the first time swinging into action to protect the cell from external stress and...

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