It's about time for a new Clean Air Act
It's been 60 years since the Clean Air Act was introduced and it is well over-due an upgrade.
Environment
Sep 7, 2016
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News tagged with lung disease
Fungus a possible precursor of severe respiratory diseases in pigs
Respiratory diseases in pigs typically involve multiple infections from different pathogens. Some pathogens play a greater role than others in the progression of the disease. The fungus Pneumocystis carinii is a relatively ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 20, 2016
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Ship engine emissions adversely affect macrophages
Ship emissions adversely affect the health of inhabitants of coastal regions. This was the main finding of a study on the influence of ship engine emissions on macrophages in the lungs conducted by scientists of Helmholtz ...
Environment
Jul 19, 2016
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From genes to latrines—Vikings and their worms provide clues to emphysema
In a paper published today in Scientific Reports a group of researchers led by LSTM have found that the key to an inherited deficiency, predisposing people to emphysema and other lung conditions, could lie in their Viking ...
Archaeology
Feb 4, 2016
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WHO: Europe's air pollution costs $1.6 trillion a year
Air pollution in Europe causes illnesses and hundreds of thousands of deaths, costing the continent's governments a combined $1.6 trillion each year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
Environment
Apr 29, 2015
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Tailored 'activity coaching' by smartphone
Today's smartphone user can obtain a lot of data about his or her health, thanks to built-in or separate sensors. Researcher Harm op den Akker of the University of Twente (CTIT Institute) now takes this health monitoring ...
Engineering
Oct 17, 2014
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All that glitters is... slimy? Gold nanoparticles measure the stickiness of snot
Some people might consider mucus an icky bodily secretion best left wrapped in a tissue, but to a group of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, snot is an endlessly fascinating subject. The team ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 9, 2014
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Researchers identify novel virus that could cause respiratory disease in ball pythons
Researchers have identified a novel virus that could be the source of a severe, sometimes fatal respiratory disease that has been observed in captive ball pythons since the 1990s. The work is published this week in mBio, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 9, 2014
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A digital version of you
When NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity sends a photograph of the alien landscape back to Earth, it relays the information as digital data, a series of ones and zeros that computers assemble into pictures that we can see. What ...
Biotechnology
Mar 12, 2014
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Proteome atlas for the tuberculosis pathogen
Researchers from ETH Zurich have mapped the coordinates for all the proteins of the tuberculosis pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Thanks to this "atlas", scientists are now able to easily find and accurately measure every ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 15, 2013
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