California company recalls food on botulism fears
(AP)—An Orange County packaged-food company is voluntarily recalling several products over fears of possible botulism contamination.
Jul 31, 2014
Archive: 31/07/2014
Goalkeepers prone to 'gambler's fallacy' but penalty takers fail to exploit it
After a string of penalties aimed in the same direction, goalkeepers are more likely to dive in the opposite direction on the next penalty but kickers fail to exploit this pattern, finds new UCL research.
Jul 31, 2014
C. difficile vaccine proves safe, 100 percent effective in animal models
An experimental vaccine protected 100 percent of animal models against the highly infectious and virulent bacterium, Clostridium difficile, which causes an intestinal disease that kills approximately 30,000 Americans annually. ...
Jul 31, 2014
New report calls for strong, positive safety culture in academic chemical labs
Everyone involved in the academic chemical research enterprise—from researchers and principal investigators to university leadership—has an important role to play in establishing and promoting a strong, positive safety culture, ...
Jul 31, 2014
Airlines agency considering passenger screening for Ebola
The International Civil Aviation Organization said Thursday it is considering passenger screenings for Ebola, now that the deadly virus for the first time has crossed international borders aboard an aircraft.
Jul 31, 2014
Molecule enhances copper's lethal punch against microbes
Harnessing a natural process in the body that pumps lethal doses of copper to fungi and bacteria shows promise as a new way to kill infectious microbes, a team of scientists at Duke University report.
Jul 31, 2014
New paper describes how DNA avoids damage from UV light
In the same week that the U.S. surgeon general issued a 101-page report about the dangers of skin cancer, researchers at Montana State University published a paper breaking new ground on how DNA – the genetic code in every ...
Jul 31, 2014
Scientists discover biochemical mechanisms contributing to fibromuscular dysplasia
An important step has been made to help better identify and treat those with fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD). FMD causes both an abnormal narrowing and enlarging of medium sized arteries in the body, which can restrict blood ...
Jul 31, 2014
Strict genomic partitioning by biological clock separates key metabolic functions
Much of the liver's metabolic function is governed by circadian rhythms – our own body clock – and UC Irvine researchers have now found two independent mechanisms by which this occurs.
Jul 31, 2014
Study clarifies parents as source of new disease mutations
Scientists have long speculated that mosaicism – a biological phenomenon, in which cells within the same person have a different genetic makeup – plays a bigger role in the transmission of rare disease mutations than is currently ...
Jul 31, 2014
