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Germs in Space: Preventing Infection on Long Flights

By Guest PostOctober 22, 2012Health, Scienceair filtration, antimicrobial resistance, astronaut, brown university, charles hobaugh, deep space, duane pierson, earth, energy budget, Environment, environmental cleaning, germs, harmful pathogen, hazardous vapors, hepa, hospital disinfectants, hygiene product, immune system, infection, infectious disease, janet kavandi, Johnson Space Center, leonard mermel, long spaceflight, mars, meningococcus, microbiologist, microgravity, microorganisms, NASA, outbreak, pneumoccocus, pneumococcus, purell, rhode island hospital, salmonella, Science, space life, spacecraft, steven lindsey, vaccinating astronauts, vitamin

On a long spaceflight unique conditions including microgravity could give microbes the upper hand, but not if astronauts and their spacecrafts are properly prepared. In a new paper, infectious disease expert Dr. Leonard Mermel brings together a broad base of research to come up with specific recommendations for keeping astronauts safe in deep space.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The cabin of a spacecraft halfway to Mars would be the least convenient place — one cannot say “on earth” — for a Salmonella or Pneumococcus outbreak, but a wide-ranging new paper suggests that microgravity and prolonged space flight could give unique advantages to germs. What’s a space agency to do? Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital infectious disease expert Dr. Leonard Mermel offers several ideas.

And no, they are not to add more Vitamin C to the Tang, or to give each crew member a bottle of Purell. It’s a lot more complicated than that. (more…)

Editor’s Picks: Turning Futuristic Visions into Reality

By Guest PostJanuary 3, 2012Technology3d, alzheimer, avatar kinect projects, baker laboratory, breakthroughs at microsoft, cancers, catwalk, crippling diseases, education and technology, futuristic scenarios, kinect for xbox 360, laptop, magic pushes, malaria, microsoft duo breaks, microsoft home, natural user interfaces, new year, protein mystery, salmonella, steve clayton, the printing dress, university of washington, virtual world, windows azure, your living room

*As we begin the New Year, a look at some of the stories of futuristic scenarios brought to life in 2011, plus developments that promise dramatic improvements in the near future.*

REDMOND, Wash. – Jan. 3, 2012 – From revolutionizing the way we interact with computers to developing tools to speed development of cures for crippling diseases, 2011 was a year of forward-thinking breakthroughs at Microsoft. See some of the innovations introduced in 2011 and how Microsoft is working to take new technologies from the lab to the living room. (more…)

Salmonella Stays Deadly With a ‘Beta Version’ of Cell Behavior

By Guest PostAugust 20, 2011Scienceabdominal, alpha form, alpha forms of amino acids, amino acid, antibiotics, bacteria, benjamin wolfe, beta lysine, betty zou, cell, common pathogen, diarrhea, ef p, fever, genes, genetically encoded amino acids, hervé roy, michael ibba, ohio state university, poxa, protein synthesis, proteins, salmonella, salmonella infection, typical cell behavior, yjek

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Salmonella cells have hijacked the protein-building process to maintain their ability to cause illness, new research suggests.

Scientists say that these bacteria have modified what has long been considered typical cell behavior by using a beta form of an amino acid – as opposed to an alpha form – during the act of making proteins. (more…)

Scientists Unfolding Protein Mystery, Fighting Disease with Windows Azure

By Guest PostJune 14, 2011Technologyalzheimer, baker laboratory, benchmark, cancers, chris sinco, cloud computing, computational biology labs, computing power, david baker, dennis gannon, malaria, marlin eiben, Microsoft, microsoft research extreme computing group, modern diseases, needle, nikolas sgourakis, pankaj arora, protein, salmonella, search for extraterrestrial intelligence, seti, structure and behavior of proteins, university of washington, vacation, windows azure, world class researcher with a world class problem

*Microsoft has partnered with the University of Washington’s Baker Laboratory to help scientists supercharge the computing power of their protein folding research with Windows Azure. Helping scientists get faster results could mean speeding up cures for Alzheimer’s, cancers, salmonella, and malaria.*

REDMOND, Wash. – June 14, 2011 – Cloud computing is helping biologists uncloud one of nature’s biggest mysteries: proteins.

Microsoft has partnered with the University of Washington’s Baker Laboratory, one of the world’s top computational biology labs, to give scientists access to some high-caliber computing power. That, in turn, helps them explore and understand proteins, which could eventually lead to thwarting everything from Alzheimer’s to Malaria, and from cancer to salmonella. (more…)

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Germs in Space: Preventing Infection on Long Flights

Editor’s Picks: Turning Futuristic Visions into Reality

Salmonella Stays Deadly With a ‘Beta Version’ of Cell Behavior

Scientists Unfolding Protein Mystery, Fighting Disease with Windows Azure