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World's Most Useful Tree Provides Low-Cost Water Purification

A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease in the developing world.

The procedure, which uses seeds from the Moringa oleifera tree, can produce a 90.00% to 99.99% bacterial reduction in previously untreated water, and has been made free to download as part of access programs under John Wiley and Sons' Corporate Citizenship Initiative.

A billion people across Asia, Africa, and Latin America are estimated to rely on untreated surface water sources for their daily water needs. Of these, some two million are thought to die from diseases caught from contaminated water every year, with the majority of these deaths occurring among children under five years of age.

Michael Lea, a Current Protocols author and a researcher at Clearinghouse, a Canadian organisation dedicated to investigating and implementing low-cost water purification technologies, believes the Moringa oleifera tree could go a long way to providing a solution.

"Moringa oleifera is a vegetable tree which is grown in Africa, Central and South America, the Indian subcontinent, and South East Asia. It could be considered to be one of the world's most useful trees," said Lea.

"Not only is it drought resistant, it also yields cooking and lighting oil, soil fertilizer, as well as highly nutritious food in the form of its pods, leaves, seeds and flowers. Perhaps most importantly, its seeds can be used to purify drinking water at virtually no cost."

Moringa tree seeds, when crushed into powder, can be used as a water-soluble extract in suspension, resulting in an effective natural clarification agent for highly turbid and untreated pathogenic surface water. As well as improving drinkability, this technique reduces water turbidity (cloudiness) making the result aesthetically as well as microbiologically more acceptable for human consumption.

Despite its live-saving potential, the technique is still not widely known, even in areas where the Moringa is routinely cultivated. It is therefore Lea's hope that the publication of this technique in a freely available protocol format, a first, will make it easier to disseminate the procedure to the communities that need it.

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Top 10 Legendary Hangover Cures

If you've ever had a hangover, you've probably thought about how far you'd go to make the pain go away -- that headache and the “everything-turned-up-to-11” feeling that hurts your eyes, your ears and your brain. From crazy promises (“If I live through this, I'm never drinking again”) to consuming your body weight in Gatorade, you may think you'd try anything to get rid of that hangover.

First off, the bad news: There is no such thing as a hangover cure. On the other hand, that hasn't stopped pretty much all of history from dreaming up ways to take the sting out of the morning after.

Here's a list of 10 of the wildest and most intriguing hangover cures. Most are disgusting concoctions of raw eggs and alcohol, but get down to number 3, 2, and 1 and your stomach will really turn!

No.3 - Deep-Fried Canaries
While the ancient Romans gave us all kinds of wonderful creations, they also filled the history books with some truly disturbing behavior. Make room in your mind next to the famous Roman orgies and gladiator battles for this bit of information: a staple food for the morning after drinking in ancient Rome was deep-fried canary. And if you think that sounds cruel and unappetizing, just wait till you see what their great-grandchildren dreamed up at No. 2 on our list.

No.2 - Dried Bull's Penis
If you're like us, the only way you can even imagine somebody eating dried bull's penis is on an episode of Fear Factor. The fact is, though, Sicilian men used to rely on this folk remedy to shake off the haze from a long night of the vino. Between the food, the cars and our own Mr. Mafioso, we can be thankful to the Italians for all kinds of good things -- a great hangover cure isn't one of them. And while this may sound like the grossest thing a person could ingest to cure a hangover, that “prize” definitely goes to our American-bred hangover cure at No. 1.

No.1 - Rabbit-Dropping Tea
As far as historical hangover cures go, this takes the cake. Sure, eating a bull's penis is nasty enough, but to actually cook with droppings -- blecch! Drinking rabbit-poop tea was a famous cure in the Old West. The drink was popular at the time -- cowboys weren't known to say no to a drink. There are tales of all sorts of heroes of the Wild West tending their hangovers with this vile concoction. And even though we normally approve of anything that was good enough for Billy the Kid and Doc, there isn't a hangover in the world that would make us go near this stuff. We take our 10-gallon hats off to the men and women of the Wild West -- this is hands down the most legendary hangover cure of all.

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Warning over dangers posed by creation of 'artificial life'

AN EMERGING field of science which is being used to create artificial life is at risk of damaging the ecosystem and being abused by terrorists, according to a new report.
Scientists have high hopes for a new technique called synthetic biology, which involves engineering organisms so they work in new ways that do not currently exist in nature.

It has been claimed that the process could create new fuels to replace petrol and new drugs to combat disease.

In the United States, scientists have controversially used the technique to create an entirely new type of life. However, a report by scientists at the University of Nottingham highlights ethical and social concerns over the use of synthetic biology and recommends new controls and regulations need to be put in place.

One area of concern is "bioterrorism", where synthetic biology could be used to produce new organisms designed to be hostile to humans.

Andrew Balmer and Professor Paul Martin, the report's authors, also suggest a threat from "garage biology", with people experimenting at home.

And they emphasise that there is no policy on the impact of synthetic biology on international bioweapons conventions.

The report, "Synthetic Biology: Social and Ethical Challenges", also highlights concerns about the accidental release of synthetic organisms into the environment.

The authors, from the Institute for Science and Society at the University if Nottingham, write: "By their very nature, such biological machines could evolve, proliferate and produce unexpected interactions that might alter the ecosystem."

They highlight anxieties over the idea of creating artificial life, with the process of synthetic biology provoking fears about scientists "playing God".

Craig Venter, a controversial DNA researcher, was last year credited with creating an artificial life form in the laboratory.

The report recommends that robust controls are put in place before the science develops, with a review of existing regulations and the development of new measures.
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I am ambivalent about this. While I believe under the right controls this type of biology may make advances in curing diseases, I too am wary of controls over it and it falling into the wrong hands. Not unlike my disdain for Monsanto and their GM crops. No telling how much a company like it or a defense contractor would pay to have the technology to make cells into bioweapons.AN EMERGING field of science which is being used to create artificial life is at risk... more

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