Patients with HIV infections are 4 1/2 times more likely to die suddenly from cardiac arrest than people without HIV, even if the virus is under control and they appear relatively healthy, according to a UCSF study. The report, published Monday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, found that sudden cardiac death – which occurs when the heart unexpectedly stops beating – was the second-most common killer among HIV-positive patients
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Scientists at the US Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have harnessed the energy producing power of a harmless phage virus. According to Forbes.com, “The scientists coated a postage-stamp-sized electrode with specially engineered, harmless viruses that, when tapped, generated enough electricity to power a small LCD display.” The power produced by the resulting viruses didnt generate a huge amount of electricity, Forbes.com noted. In fact they produced, “just six nanoamperes, the equivalent of about one-quarter the voltage supplied by a AAA battery but it was a start.” More from GlobalPost:Nigeria’s silent killer: its energy shortage In the group’s abstract published in Nature Nanotechnology they said, “we develop a phage-based piezoelectric generator that produces up to 6 nA of current and 400 mV of potential and use it to operate a liquid-crystal display.
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A scientist engineered the avian flu virus to make it more deadly to mammals.
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A scientist engineered the avian flu virus to make it more deadly to mammals.
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