Professor Pamela Silver of Harvard Medical School (HMS) believes in biology’s potential to change the world. For example: scientists routinely wield microbes against disease, using computers to turn bacteria into microscopic drug factories rapidly assembled from off-the-shelf biological parts; c... Read more...
As the swollen Mississippi River rolls south, many residents living along the "Big Muddy" are scrambling to get out of its path. If the Army Corps of Engineers opens up the Morganza spillway in an attempt to save New Orleans and Baton Rouge, it will flood a 3 million acre flood plain and displace ... Read more...
72% is way more than zero... A University of Arizona researcher says you may want to grab one of those disinfectant wipes right before you grab a grocery cart.Professor Charles Gerba, the lead researcher, swabbed the handles of 85 carts in four states for bacterial contamination.Gerba says 72... Read more...