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Genetics and Health

May 8th, 2008

Is your toilet cleaner than your keyboard?

 
Which? magazine in the UK swabbed their Head Office computer keyboards and the results, with horror, revealed some computer keyboards had dangerously high levels of bacteria normally associated with a toilet. 
In summary, 4 of the keyboards were so infested with germs they posed a health hazard that could give someone a bad stomach upset; two […]

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March 3rd, 2008

Flu virus has ‘coat’ which melts in the summer and makes it less virulent

(Photo credit: Flu viruses among cilia - National Geographic magazine http://www.nationalgeographic.com/)
US scientists have discovered a possible reason why the flu virus is seasonal and tends to infect people mostly in the winter. It has a jacket that melts in the summer causing the virus to die off, and stays hard in the winter, until it […]

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