The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development ORD developed and patented a new technology to detect indoor molds and fungi. The detection technology is a DNA method that can be used for the identification and quantif The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of...
INTRODUCTION Previous work have been carried out on collection, identification and isolation of indigenous Nigerian mushrooms (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) .Investigations were carried out on these fungi basically, to determine their nutritional requirements and utilization in biotechnological processes. These organisms have been implicated in lignin and other...
Security Check Points and Customs Areas Were Treated With the High-Tech Protection in the TriBan Antimicrobial System by Detroit's Own Triton Technology Group, LLC DETROIT, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- For germ-a-phobes there are few, more intimidating moments than an airport security check point. Today, passengers in...
INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-C1995-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK Health Protection Agency has launched a New Culture Collections website, developed by specialist public sector web services company System Associates. The new e-commerce site - http://www.hpacultures.org.uk/ - reportedly brings together four, previously separate, culture collections into one domain. System...
THE warm, damp summer has created mushroom madness in the North East. The Forestry Commission is seeing a bumper crop of mushrooms and toadstools. And to celebrate, it is staging fungi forages in some of the North East's most spectacular woods. The events will take place...
THERE could be a silver lining to our wet summer as the region may be in for a bumper crop of mushrooms. Experts say a good year could be on the cards for mushrooms and toadstools, with a fine crop already sprouting. The Forestry Commission is...
LEADING ARTICLE At least one good thing has emerged from our hot, but irritatingly damp, summer: a revival of British truffling. Not long ago, Mediterranean countries such as France, Italy and Spain had a virtual monopoly on the production of the pungent, subterranean fungi, so feted...
STANFORD, Calif. -- Previously unrecognized and unidentified infections of amniotic fluid may be a significant cause of premature birth, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. An analysis of amniotic fluid from women in preterm labor indicated that 15 percent of the fluid samples harbored...
Infections of amniotic fluid are more common than previously believed and may be a major cause of premature births, says a study led by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine. About 12 percent of all births in the United States are premature, and the frequency of premature birth is...
The mystical allure of the truffle spans the centuries. Greeks and Romans associated the fungi with sex and power, attributing to it therapeutic and aphrodisiac powers. Brillat Sauvaurin, the 18th- century French gourmet, once remarked that truffles aroused erotic and gastronomic memories. France and Italy have long...
WASHINGTON -- Infections may play a bigger role in premature birth than doctors have thought, says a new study that found almost one in seven women in preterm labor harbored bacteria or fungi in their amniotic fluid. It's a small study, and it doesn't prove that the...
Edible weeds, sorbets from hedgerows and the freshest shellfish of all... It's time to get foraging, says Mark Hix Photographs by Jason Lowe Foraging for wild plants, fruits and fungi is definitely on the up, and yet many people still think it's too much hassle to...
A NEW species of bacteria discovered in the mouth may help scientists improve ways of fighting tooth decay and gum disease. The bug, named Prevotella histicola, belongs to a family associated with various mouth diseases and infections in the body. Scientists found three strains of the...
THE annual attack on ragwort is getting under way with a two-day purge in Huddersfield. But let's just remember that this yellow weed is not all bad. True, it can kill horses, cattle and sheep, but that is only when these animals are present. ...
BIODIVERSITY is the variety of life on earth - the whole range of plants, animals and fungi and the places in which they live. Biodiversity is vital to us all and provides many of life's essentials we take for granted: it provides our food ...
* A new product is giving the germophobes daily protection from microbe invasion. DuraBan forms a colorless, odorless bond to any surface, creating an antibacterial, antimicrobial barrier that lasts for months at a time, covalently-bonding to treated surfaces throughout the home and on-the-go. BDA Industries, marketer of the DuraBan Antimicrobial...
AACC Annual Meeting - Seegene's Seeplex®Sepsis multi-pathogen screening test introduced today at the 2008 AnnualMeeting and Clinical Lab Expo of the American Association for ClinicalChemistry AACC brings a novel and fast-acting diagnostic technique forhospitals to simultaneously verify a complex range of targets that indicatesepsis, the leading cause of death in...
After you spend considerable time and money buying and growing the flowers, it is disappointing to see them die prematurely -- or not bloom well -- because of diseases. As a brief reminder, diseases are separated into two general categories. The first are the nonpathogenic or environmental...
MUSHROOM-MAD cook Guiseppe Fois has revealed his recipe for puffball success. Mr Fois, of Dalton, contacted the Examiner after we featured the discovery of a giant puffball by Robert Williams at his allotment off Cemetery Road, Edgerton. The 55-year-old, who has worked in the restaurant trade...
LAUTERBOURG, France -- Chantal Wolf-Laeufer, a local artist, will mark the opening of the Cefic exhibit at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on July 8, 2008, by painting a picture in the theme of sustainable development using interior paints which contain acrylic technology from Rohm and Haas...
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