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UV light cuts spread of TB

The study, which explored the transmission of tuberculosis (TB) from infected patients to guinea pigs, suggests that installing simple ultraviolet C (UVC) lights in hospitals could help reduce the tra...

Studies and Analyses |

Building a Stronger Roof Over Your Head: 'Three Little Pigs' Project Begins First Tests

This week, inaugural tests at The University of Western Ontario’s ‘Three Little Pigs’ project at The Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes will begin to provide answers as researchers ‘raze the roof...

Architecture and Construction |

Tailor-made functional garments for top athletes of the four-legged kind

When the horses and competitors go through their paces at the Summer Olympics in Hong Kong in 2008 it will be very hot and very humid – just as it is every summer there. Three special blankets will of...

Materials Sciences |

Pigs prefer three square meals a day

Lead author, Eva Persson, from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences explains that, “The natural feeding behaviour of pigs is searching for feed by rooting activities throughout the day; sel...

Agricultural and Forestry Science |

IFST Information Statement on Avian Influenza and Food

The highly pathogenic H5NI strains of avian flu which are transmitted from wild birds to domestic poultry are currently transmissible to humans only with great difficulty, as a result of close direct ...

Health and Medicine |

The LouseBuster kills

University of Utah biologists invented a chemical-free, hairdryer-like device – the LouseBuster – and conducted a study showing it eradicates head lice infestations on children by exterminating the eg...

Studies and Analyses |

Health-check for deep-sea pipelines

Four mid-Norwegian industrial companies – SICOM, Force Technology, CorrOcean and Thermotite – have decided on making a joint effort. SINTEF is part of their team, which has persuaded the oil and gas c...

Power and Electrical Engineering |

Vaccine shown effective against chancroid

Could reduce HIV transmission: Study HIV plagues more than 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organization, and efforts to develop a vacc...

Health and Medicine |

Verocytotoxin-producing E.coli food poisoning and its prevention

The Institute of Food Science & Technology, through its Public Affairs and Technical & Legislative Committees has authorised the following Information Statement, dated November 2004, prepar...

Health and Medicine |

Triticale gets the best of both worlds — wheat and rye

Triticale is a hardy and new winter cereal crop created in a laboratory environment by crossing wheat with rye. After years of effort over a 30-year period, plant breeders, in particular those ...

Agricultural and Forestry Science |

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