Dec 10, 2008

Top Ten Science News Posts

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It’s that time of year again. The shops have been full of Xmas crap joy for weeks, as have I, of course. The neighbours have been through Osram’s full stock twice with their religiously ambiguous, exterior decor, and now I’m filling a Sciencebase blog post with the classic end of year round up - the top ten list of science posts.

Far and away the winner, …

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Dec 7, 2008

Dioxins in Pork

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Dioxins Before Swine - Irish pork is off the menu, according to the BBC.

The UK’s Food Standards Agency is monitoring pork products in the Irish Republic because of fears of contamination with dioxins. “Tests showed some pork products contained up to 200 times more dioxins than the recognised safety limit.” Interestingly, dioxin levels in soil have been declining in recent years, according to another …

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Dec 5, 2008

Flu Structure, Mp3s, and Magnetic Minestrone

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You can read my latest science news updates in spectroscopynow.com:

One flu over - X-ray studies have revealed details of the structure of a protein used by the avian influenza, H5N1, that allows it to hide its RNA from the infected host’s immune system. The structure could provide a new target for the development of antiviral drugs against this potentially lethal virus

Minestrone and magnetic resonance - Researchers in the US and France may have …

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