Four commonly used artificial sweeteners – saccharine, sucralose, aspartame, and acesulfame potassium — can promote the horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes, according to new research. This digitally colorized, scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image, depicts a clump of yellow-colored, spheroid shaped, Staphylococcus aureus bacteria that were enmeshed in a blue-colored, …
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A team of scientists at Michigan State University has discovered that a potential new drug, called CCG-203971, reduces the spread of melanoma cells by up to 90%. The findings are published in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. Melanoma is a disease in which malignant cells form in melanocytes. Image credit: …
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If you’re not yet ready to move on to advanced SEO for Ecommerce, I’ve written an introductory post about how to get started with the seo basics. Maximizing the search engine visibility of your eCommerce website, for qualified queries, is perhaps the most important role SEO has to play in selling …
Read More »Marmite: A potted history of the British-born spread
Image copyright PA Image caption Both the French and the Germans have played a role in the creation of what is seen as a quintessentially British product Panic spread across the UK as it emerged that the much-loved yeast extract Marmite was at risk of being removed from the nation’s …
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