Other Antarctic discoveries include an extract from green algae for use in cosmetic skin treatment, and anti-tumour properties in a strain of yeast.
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And in a surprising development, a researcher in Switzerland discovered a special strain of fungus that can make an ordinary violin sing like a Stradivarius.
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More recently, there have been worries about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and a strain of flu known as H5N1 in 2008, though neither created the pandemic researchers feared they might.
Advances in science made it possible to isolate a strain of yeast that results in a lighter-colored beer with a cleaner, crisper flavor.
Mr. Tsarnaev said his son had at least once visited the mosque on Kotrova Street in Makhachkala, known for being one of the few places in Russia that openly preaches Salafism, a puritanical strain of Islam centered in Saudi Arabia that has risen in popularity in Dagestan.
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He was also a boozer, and in 1942, possibly under the strain of living in a country under German occupation, he sold most of the family's shares in the brewery that could trace its roots back to 1592.
When researchers looked at all the genes inside the bacterium they concluded that it was in fact a new strain of O104.
In a 7, 600-person study published in 2007, he found that people with a certain strain of H. pylori in their tummies were 40% less likely to get childhood asthma than those without it.
One of the most severe cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the United States has been reported in southern Texas: a strain of TB resilient to at least eight of the 15 drugs used to treat this deadly airborne disease.
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We exchanged a few pleasantries, but there was a bit of a strain in his voice.
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Lookout said it recently found a text-generating strain of malware in a copied version of the "Angry Birds Space" app on Anzhi, an app store in China for Android devices.
China Central Television and other major media say four new people living in different cities in Jiangsu province are in critical condition with H7N9, a strain of bird flu that was previously unknown in humans.
Apart from the BASF potato, there is only one other GM crop approved for commercial growing in the EU - a strain of maize developed by Monsanto called MON810.
The move was seized on by opponents of renewable energy outside Europe as evidence that this expensive technology was becoming a strain even in the heartland of climate change champions.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had taken a turn toward a stricter strain of Islam in the years before his trip a turn similar to an ideological migration toward orthodoxy that, according to Mr. Ratelle, many younger people in Dagestan have chosen of late.
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The official with Russia's Anti-Extremism Center said Tsarnaev was filmed attending a mosque in Makhachkala whose worshippers adhere to a more radical strain of Islam.
In May, Dow Chemical said it would tap a strain of Solazyme algal oil for use in electrical transformer insulating fluids.
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Two men have died in the Chinese city of Shanghai, after contracting a strain of bird flu not previously known in humans, Chinese officials say.
Hong Kong has been hit by a number of health scares in the last few years, most notably concerns about a new strain of avian flu.
The meetings happened in a mosque in Dagestan's capital of Makhachkala known for its adherence to a puritanical strain of Islam, they said.
An outbreak of a dangerous strain of Escherichia coli bacteria in Germany has already killed 15 people and made 1, 000 more ill.
She first injects a sample of "wild virus"-- in this case, H1N1 virus she got from the CDC, originally culled from a child who was infected in California this spring -- and then injects a sample of another flu strain that's known for its ability to rapidly multiply in eggs.
Mr Reddy stressed that there were no signs of a tamiflu-resistant strain of H1N1 circulating in the community.
While many black Muslims follow a divergent strain of Islam, Vickers found a home in the Wahhabi-connected AMC and served as its executive director from June 2002 until February 2003, after he left the American Muslim Alliance.
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Trust me: Planning ahead will save a tremendous amount in legal bills and spare everyone a lot of extra emotional strain.
To investigate GLP-1's role in taste, the team used a strain of mice that were genetically engineered to lack GLP-1 receptors.
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At some point during their deployment, many servicemen and women understandably become overwhelmed by the unrelenting strain of living in a combat zone.
Listening to Lovelock it is easy to see why his theories caught on with New Age thinkers -- there is a strain of spirituality in much of what he says.
On Saturday, the virus strain was found in a herd of swine in Alberta, Canada, and the animals may have caught the flu from a farmer who recently returned from a trip to Mexico.
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