Ultrasound And Algae Team Up To Clean Mercury From Sediments (March 29, 2006) -- Ultrasound and algae can be used together as tools to clean mercury from contaminated sediment, according to an Ohio State University study. This research could one day lead to a ship-borne device ... > full story

New Test Could Keep Babies From Contracting Deadly Infections (July 26, 2006) -- Women are tested for group B streptococcus during pregnancy, but current screening methods can leave some babies at risk for contracting an infection from the bacterium. But the new test, which ... > full story

Second Bacterium Confirmed As Cause Of Tooth Decay, Shows Different Pattern Of Virulence Than S. Mutans (March 13, 2001) -- Investigators at the University of Connecticut and the University at Buffalo have confirmed that a second bacterium, Streptococcus gordonii, induces tooth decay in an animal ... > full story

Young Children Don't Believe Everything They Hear (November 17, 2006) -- Children's ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy depends on their use of contextual cues. The findings of three studies in 400 children between 3 and 6 years of age examined children's ... > full story

Mercury Can Jump Barrier That Keeps Toxins Out Of Brain (September 9, 1999) -- Researchers say they have found the first evidence that mercury can circumvent the blood-brain barrier that usually prevents such toxins from entering the brain. Their studies were with brown and ... > full story

Scripps Scientists Develop New "Kit" To Screen Mercury In Fish (April 19, 2001) -- Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), have developed a screening method, similar to a home pregnancy test, that can detect mercury contamination in fish. According to Kim D. Janda, ... > full story

Nanoporous 'Sponge' Removes Mercury From Offshore Produced Waters (April 3, 2006) -- Researchers at PNNL have developed a novel nanoporous sorbent thiol-SAMMS, or thiol-functionalized Self Assembled Monolayers on Mesoporous Supports, to specifically remove mercury and other ... > full story

UC Engineering Researchers Find Mercury In Cicadas (June 1, 2004) -- Think twice before you eat one of Cincinnati's Brood-X cicadas. That's the warning from researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering, who have found surprising levels of mercury ... > full story

National Jewish Researchers First To Identify Component In Thymus Positively Selects T Cells (July 22, 1999) -- Researchers at National Jewish Medical and Research Center have identified what T cells "see" in a normal thymus that controls the development of functional or immune-system aggressive T cells, ... > full story

Gold Nanoparticles Help Detect A Toxic Metal -- Mercury (April 27, 2007) -- With gold nanoparticles, DNA and smart chemistry as their tools, scientists have developed a simple "litmus test" for mercury that eventually could be used for on-the-spot environmental monitoring of ... > full story

Crude Oil Contains Less Toxic Mercury Than Coal (June 19, 2007) -- A 4-year study of mercury in crude oil refined in the United States has found that, of the two major sources of U.S. fossil energy mined coal and crude oil crude oil contains much less toxic mercury, ... > full story

Streptococcus -- Streptococcus is a genus of spherical, Gram-positive bacteria of the phylum Firmicutes. In addition to strep throat, members of this genus are responsible for many cases of menningitis, bacterial ... > full article

Hazardous waste -- Hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment and generally exhibits one or more of the these characteristics: ignitability, corrosivity, ... > full article

Pathogen -- A pathogen or infectious agent is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host. The term is most often used for agents that disrupt the normal physiology of a multicellular animal or ... > full article

Infectious mononucleosis -- Infectious mononucleosis (also known in North America as mono, the kissing disease, or Pfeiffer's disease, and more commonly known as glandular fever in other English-speaking countries) is a disease ... > full article

Carcinogen -- In pathology, a carcinogen is any substance or agent that promotes cancer. Carcinogens are also often, but not necessarily, mutagens or teratogens. Carcinogens may cause cancer by altering cellular ... > full article

Dairy product -- Dairy products are generally defined as foodstuffs produced from milk. A production plant for such processing is called a dairy. Raw milk for processing generally comes from cows, but occasionally ... > full article

Bone scan -- Bone imaging is a study to visually detect bone abnormalities. Such imaging studies include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray computed tomography (CT) and especially nuclear medicine. In the ... > full article

Blood sugar -- In medicine, blood sugar is a term used to refer to levels of glucose in the blood. Blood sugar concentration, or serum glucose level, is tightly regulated in the human body. Glucose, transported via ... > full article

Electrolyte -- An electrolyte is a substance that dissociates into free ions when dissolved, to produce an electrically conductive medium. Electrolyte and sports drinks can be home-made by using the correct ... > full article

Soil contamination -- Soil contamination is the presence of man-made chemicals or other alteration to the natural soil environment. This type of contamination typically arises from rupture of underground storage tanks, ... > full article