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Toledo Water Back On After Toxic Scare
Bob Grant | Aug 5, 2014 | 1 min read
Citizens of Ohio’s fourth-largest city can drink from the tap again, but the root causes of the Lake Erie algal blooms that shut off the flow for two days remain.
Virus Detected in Human Cell Line
Kerry Grens | Jun 4, 2014 | 1 min read
A line of human fetal glial cells is infected with a human polyomavirus, researchers report.
Parsing Pathogens
Jef Akst | Jun 1, 2014 | 3 min read
Meet the peptide-covered microcantilever device capable of differentiating subtypes of Salmonella.
Haley Oliver: Master of Meat
Jef Akst | Jun 1, 2014 | 3 min read
Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science, Purdue University, Age: 32
Virus Found in Sf9 Cell Line
Kerry Grens | May 22, 2014 | 2 min read
A government lab finds a novel virus present in cell lines used for therapeutic production that were thought to be virus-free.
Out, Damned Mycoplasma!
Kelly Rae Chi | Dec 1, 2013 | 8 min read
Pointers for keeping your cell cultures free of mycoplasma contamination
Lab Tubes Contaminated with Virus
Kerry Grens | Sep 20, 2013 | 3 min read
A novel virus thought to have come from human samples appears to have been derived from seawater during the manufacture of tubes used to extract DNA.  
Safe Flu Research Strategy
Chris Palmer | Aug 12, 2013 | 1 min read
Researchers develop a new “molecular biocontainment” strategy for safely studying deadly flu viruses.
Moving Objects Using Sound
Kate Yandell | Jul 17, 2013 | 1 min read
Levitating and manipulating objects using sound waves could help prevent contamination of materials.
Doubts Surface About Antarctic Life
Chris Palmer | Jul 11, 2013 | 2 min read
Researchers contend that contamination is behind recent suggestions that Antarctica’s largest subglacial lake harbors complex life such as crustaceans and fish.
Antarctic Lake Teems With Life
Chris Palmer | Jul 8, 2013 | 2 min read
DNA and RNA sequences from Lake Vostok below the Antarctic glacier reveal thousands of bacteria species, including some commonly found in fish digestive systems.
Drugged Fish Act Different
Kate Yandell | Feb 14, 2013 | 3 min read
A psychiatric drug in the water can cause perch to be less social, more voracious hunters.
Nanoparticles Harm Crops
Hayley Dunning | Aug 21, 2012 | 1 min read
Manufactured nanomaterials, such as those found in cosmetics and fuel, affect soil productivity and food quality of soybean crops.
Teenage Tourrette's Outbreak?
Edyta Zielinska | Feb 20, 2012 | 1 min read
School-district officials in northwestern New York State are puzzled by a spate of high school students reporting symptoms of the neuropsychiatric disorder.
Pakistan Heart Drug Scare
Bob Grant | Jan 25, 2012 | 2 min read
Officials in Punjab province have arrested the owners of pharmaceutical companies making cardiac drugs suspected to contain heavy-metal contaminants.
XMRV doesn't cause chronic fatigue
Tia Ghose | Jun 5, 2011 | 2 min read
Two studies point to contamination of patient samples as the cause of a controversial 2009 finding that linked the mouse virus XMRV with chronic fatigue syndrome.
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