SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Top stories of 2001

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS -January 8, 2002: Top stories of 2001 By Nancy Steinbach VOICE ONE: This is Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And this is Doug Johnson with the Special English program SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. T

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(BBC News)Scientists in Japan have reported a big advance in the fight against superbugs. （英国国家广播公司报道）日本科学家发表了一项对抗超级细菌的重大进展。 Thousands of people fall ill every year from bacteria the

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New Genetic Test Helps Find Food Poisoning American scientists are using genetic markers to investigate food poisoning cases linked to romaine lettuce. The Associated Press reports that their use of genetic sequencing is completely changing the disco

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. For years, scientists and physicians have been up in arms about the rise in antibiotic resistance. Seems that many bacteria, devious buggers that they ar

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Theres been an unexpected development in our understanding of drug resistance in bacteria. The accepted scenario was a simple case of evolutionary selection. In a bacterial population exposed to a killer drug, a few lucky individuals might have a gen

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Vidushi Sinha | Washington, DC 18 May 2010 The World Health Organization calls antibiotic resistance one of the three greatest threats to human health. Experts fear antibiotic resistance puts humans in danger of becoming nearly defenseless against so

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In laps,bacteria may swim freely，but out in the world，including our bodies，bacteria often exist packed together in dense communities called biofilms. and these configurations can help them cause illness.finding clues about how such bacteria gro

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - New TB Vaccine to be Tested

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European and World Health Organization scientists say a deadly outbreak of E. coli bacteria that has killed 18 people is a rare and virulent(致命的) strain of the bacteria. The latest victim died Wednesday night in Germany. The United Nations agen

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With this ability to evolve rapidly goes another, even scarier advantage. 有了这种能力，另一种更加吓人的优势会很快产生。 Bacteria share information. Any bacterium can take pieces of genetic coding from any other. 细菌能共享信

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In 2001, a team from Tel Aviv University argued that B. permians were almost identical to a strain of modern bacteria, Bacillus marismortui, found in the Dead Sea. 2001年，以色列特拉维夫大学的一个小组认为，二叠纪芽孢杆菌与一

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Mitochondria manipulate oxygen in a way that liberates energy from foodstuffs. 线粒体支配着氧，释放食物中的能量。 Without this niftily facilitating trick, life on Earth today would be nothing more than a sludge of simple microbes. 没有

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BEIJING A report that Beijings already notorious smog contained bacteria with antibiotic-resistant genes spread through the city last week like pathogens in a pandemic disaster movie. 北京上周，有一则新闻就像是传染病灾难片中的病原

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For many scientists, a species success is measured by sheer numbers. In that case, the most successful species known to man is a type of bacterium known as S-A-R-11, or SAR-11 for short. Scientists estimate that there are two-hundred and forty times