Recent Bacteria Articles page 4

Medical News Today - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded an interdisciplinary team of five Stevens Institute of Technology researchers a four-year, $1 million grant to develop "smart," self-assembling nano-biomaterials that can control whether bacteria will ...

Chicago Tribune - Dozens of children were sickened by the resistant bacteria without having contact with hospitals -- an unprecedented outbreak. "We just looked at each other and said, 'What's going on here?'" said Daum, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the ...

Seattle Times - Former inmate Charlie Manning, 60, is suing the state Department of Corrections, saying the medical staff at Stafford Creek Correctional Center misdiagnosed his case of "flesh-eating bacteria" as a mere allergic reaction. GREG GILBERT / THE SEATTLE ...

Forbes - In its fight against Listeria, and other dangerous bacteria, the food industry has embraced a 'green' solution, using bacteriophages as the way to go. EBI Food Safety, first-to-market with a commercial bacteriophage product, fended off competition ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - ... to be the nation's top producer this year at 125 million pounds. U.S. regulators have tightened restrictions on meat and poultry products from Canada because of concerns about testing practices at a Canadian firm that was the likely source of bacteria ...

Xinhua News Agency - Zhao Yong, the vice professor with the university's food studies college, said that "electronic nose" testing is quicker, more accurate and more convenient compared to the traditional testing methods which involves growing bacteria. "The ...

News.com.au - Every day hundreds of visitors file through his tomb in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, bringing with them into the royal tomb bacteria, humidity and other pollutants. "The mummy risked ...

Washington Post - At least 6,000 pounds of ground beef supplied to stores in the Washington area are included in a nationwide recall of beef possibly contaminated with E. coli bacteria, store officials said yesterday. The recall affects at least two chains in the ...

Xinhua News Agency - BEIJING, Nov. 5 -- Cargill Inc is recalling more than 450,000 kilograms of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria. It is the second time in less than a month it has voluntarily recalled beef that may have been tainted. No ...

Guardian Unlimited - He has locked horns with Gotham City's darkest criminals, including the Joker, the Riddler, Catwoman and Penguin. But now Batman has crumbled in the face of an even deadlier foe: the polluted water of Hong Kong. The Dark Knight, a sequel to the 2005 ...