Sunday, October 26, 2008

Study Shows How Antibiotic Sets Up Road Block To Kill Bacteria

ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2008) — Scientists have taken a critical step toward the development of new and more effective antibacterial drugs by identifying exactly how a specific antibiotic sets up a road block that halts bacterial growth

full story here http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081022135615.htm




Birth Of White Rhino After Artificial Insemination With Frozen Sperm

ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2008) — A world-first: researchers announce the birth of a white rhino after artificial insemination with frozen sperm. The rhino baby, a male, was born at 4:57am in the Budapest Zoo on the 22nd of October 2008. In June 2007, scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin artificially inseminated his mother, the rhino cow Lulu, with frozen bull semen.

Full story here http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081024103856.htm

Rapid HIV Testing In The ER Boosts Diagnoses, Screening

One in every 50 people screened for a suspected sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the Emergency Department at Henry Ford Hospital was found to be infected with HIV using a rapid blood sample screening test.

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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Virus As Nano-building Block: Extreme Nature Helps Scientists Design Nano Materials

ScienceDaily (Oct. 16, 2008) — Scientists are using designs in nature from extreme environments to overcome the challenges of producing materials on the nanometre scale. A team from the UK’s John Innes Centre, the Scripps Research Institute in California and the Institut Pasteur in Paris have identified a stable, modifiable virus that could be used as a nanobuilding block.

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-Vikrant

'Lost' Miller-Urey Experiment Created More Of Life's Building Blocks

ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2008) — A classic experiment proving amino acids are created when inorganic molecules are exposed to electricity isn't the whole story, it turns out. The 1953 Miller-Urey Synthesis had two sibling studies, neither of which was published. Vials containing the products from those experiments were recently recovered and reanalyzed using modern technology. The results are reported in this week's Science.

Full Story. Read Here- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081016141411.htm

-Vikrant