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Sun Nov 16

• Kids World - Food Safety
• Food Hygiene Hit Squad
• Keeping food safe: Food Standards Agency

Fri Nov 14

• Skin microbes mapped: Beauty may be skin deep, but our body's outer coating has an ugly side, too: microbes. Researchers reported at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Philadelphia today (Nov. 13) that they have drawn up a head-to-toe map of the microorganisms crawling on our skin. "The skin is two square meters of ecosystems comprised of a variety of habitats and niches, and each of these habitats harbors its own microflora,&qu ot; said Elizabeth Grice, a genomicist at the NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute.
• EM bokashi composting
• Mysterious Microbe May Play Important Role In Ocean Ecology: An unusual microorganism discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean ecosystems. A research team led by Jonathan Zehr, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, characterized the new microbe by analyzing its genetic material, even though researchers have not been able to grow it in the laboratory.
• Small world!

Wed Nov 12

• New Path Found To Antibiotics In Dirt: A teaspoon of dirt contains an estimated 10,000 species of bacteria, but it?s only one percent of these microbial bugs ? the ones that can be grown easily in a lab ? that have brought us antibiotics, anticancer agents and other useful drugs.

Thu Nov 6

• Home of Microbe Zoo

Wed Nov 5

• Recombinant DNA: This page shows the pricipals about Recombinant DNA and how microorganisms (as well as multi cellular) are used to create genetically engineered organsisms inorder to introduce a specific gene from a different organism into the DNA of the host organism to express a desired attribute.

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