Self-destructing bacteria could lead to artificial life: Scientists build ‘kill’ system into GM organisms to ease …

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The breakthrough was achieved by Harvard and Yaleuniversities They modified E. coli so it couldn't survive without an amino acid Scientists say they could stop supplying amino acid to kill bacteria It is possible to extend the technique to genetically modified crops This may ease concerns about GM strains mixing with organic food

By Ellie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail.com

Published: 12:18 EST, 21 January 2015 | Updated: 20:17 EST, 22 January 2015

Extreme gene manipulation has been used to modify bacteria that die if they get out of human control.

Instead of using traditional genetic engineering - which moves a gene from one organism to another - scientists have rewritten the language of genetics.

The breakthrough is a potential step toward better management of genetically engineered organisms, including crops.

Extreme gene manipulation tools have been used to modify bacteria that die if they get out of human control

Genetically altered microbes are used now in industry to produce fuels, medicines and other chemicals.

The new technique might also reduce the risk of using them outdoors, such as for cleaning up toxic spills.

Scientists from Harvard and Yale introduced the new approach in two papers released this week by the journal Nature.

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PS students ready for science fair

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Science fairs are among the most iconic and eagerly anticipated highlights of most every public school, especially those with elementary and middle school grades.

Most unique about them is they give children who might be more academically inclined than athletically or musically gifted a chance to take center stage.

At Pine Strawberry School, the learned among the student body are in the process of wrapping up their fair projects, which will be shown and judged Jan. 26-30.

The projects will be on public display Feb. 3-7 in the Isabelle Hunt Memorial Library.

Pine Strawberry School science fair winners along with other champions from around Gila County will compete March 5 in the Regional Science Fair in Miami.

Winners there advance April 7-9 to the Phoenix Convention Center for the granddaddy of all competitions Arizona State Science and Engineering Fair.

The state fair brings together first place winners from school, district, county and regional science fairs around Arizona to compete for thousands of dollars in prizes and scholarships.

Pine Strawberry School has a rich science fair history producing local champions who have gone on to show well in both the county and state showdowns.

At last years county fair, Pine Strawberry Schools aspiring scientists won seven bronze, two silver and five gold medals.

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The next energy revolution won't be in wind or solar but in human behavior

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NOTE: This is the first of a three-part series.

In the arid lands of the Mojave Desert, Marine regimental commander Jim Caley traveled alongside a 24-mile stretch of road and saw trucks, tanks and armored tracked vehicles all idling in the heat and wasting enormous amounts of expensive fuel.

Caley had already led forces in Iraq, and at the time was charged with seven battalions comprising 7,000 Marines. But this was a new and different challenge. Overseeing a major spring 2013 training exercise at the Marine Corps' Twentynine Palms base in southern California, he was struck by how little he knew about how America's war-fighting machine used energy.

"No targets prosecuted, no miles to the gallon, no combat benefit being delivered," Caley, a Marine colonel, says of the scene. "At the time, I had no system to understand what was going on, and what was occurring, and how much further I could go on the same fuel."

The Department of Defense is the single biggest user of energy in the U.S. its energy bill in 2013 was $18.9 billion and Caley now plays a central role in trying to ensure that just one of its branches, the Marine Corps, uses that power in the optimal way. The implications for the military are vast. For instance, the Marines alone have estimated that they could save $26 million per year through a 10 percent energy reduction at their installations and bases, to say nothing of Marine field operations, which used an estimated 1.5 million barrels of fuel in 2014.

But most striking is how these changes are coming about. As head of the Marines Corps' five-year-old Expeditionary Energy Office, Caley is tapping into one of the hottest trends in academic energy research: looking to use psychology and the behavioral sciences to find ways of saving energy by changing people their habits, routines, practices and preconceptions.

"The opportunities that we see on the behavioral side of the house are phenomenal," Caley explained during a recent interview in his Pentagon office. "And they're frankly less expensive than us trying to buy new equipment."

Through behavioral changes alone tweaking the ways that Marines drive their vehicles, power their outposts, handle their equipment Caley thinks he can increase their overall battlefield range by as much as five days, a change that would provide immense tactical benefit by cutting down on refueling requirements (and the logistical hurdles and vulnerabilities associated with them). If he succeeds, the Marines would stand at the forefront of an energy revolution that may someday rival wind or solar in importance: one focused not on changing our technologies or devices, but on changing us. And its applications would touch every corner of our society, from how we behave in our homes to how we drive our cars.

Any change to how the military uses energy has momentous implications simply because it uses so much of it roughly the same amount of power annually as the state of West Virginia. But the behavioral revolution in energy is also highly significant in the civilian sector, where truly Pentagon-sized energy gains could be reaped just by tweaking little behaviors. For instance, here are some published estimates of possible energy savings from behavioral changes. These shouldn't be taken as exact, but rather as ballpark figures:

One 2009 study suggested that American households which account for around 40 percent of U.S. carbon emissions could achieve a 20 percent emissions reduction by changing which household appliances and objects they use, and how they use them. That's greater than the total emissions of the country of France.

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1st AMWC – Aesthetic & Anti-aging Medicine World Congress – Latin America in Medellin, Colombia. – Video

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Dr. Anna Sottile Opens Aesthetic Medicine Institute of Miami in Brickell Avenue Area

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Miami, FL (PRWEB) January 23, 2015

Dr. Anna Sottile has opened the Aesthetic Medicine Institute of Miami in the Brickell Avenue area, a practice that focuses on anti-aging injectibles. She brings to her practice 27 years of medical and cosmetic experience, encompassing all leading injectibles including neurotoxins (better known as Botox) and hyaluronic acid (known as fillers) as well as pain management.

The Italian-born Dr. Sottile has extensive training and experience in facial anatomy and injectibles from medical centers of leading universities in the world including Brown and Harvard.

Her treatments are custom tailored to each client. She takes extra care and time to ensure the best possible result, even offering to do a follow-up visit if desired to review the result after the fillers have settled in, all at no extra charge for the visit.

Dr. Sottile is a published author and has been named Best Doctor by Better Living Magazine, Top Doctor in the Peers Review and Americas Top Physician by Consumers Research Council. She is a member of the American Society of Aesthetic Medicine.

The Institute is located at 1800 SW 1st Avenue, #103, Miami, FL 33129. To make an appointment, call 786-577-0450.

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NATO Warns of Growing Russian Army Presence in Ukraine: Stoltenberg calls on Moscow to withdraw – Video

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Radar searches: Get a warrant

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Lacking search warrants while using radar devices that look through walls to determine whether houses are occupied, some law enforcers reveal much more: yet another assault on Americans' Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure.

At least 50 agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, have been using these devices for more than two years with little notice to the courts and no public disclosure of when or how they would be used, USA Today reports. Detecting movements as slight as human breathing from more than 50 feet and showing whether people inside a house are moving, the marshals' devices can't show pictures of what's happening inside but other devices can.

Developed for use in Iraq and Afghanistan, these devices indeed have value for combat and hostage situations. But their warrantless use in law enforcement searches raises what federal appellate judges in Denver, considering such a case involving a parole violator's arrest, called grave Fourth Amendment questions.

The Supreme Court has held the Fourth Amendment line against warrantless searches that use drug-sniffing dogs and thermal-imaging devices outside houses. When a warrantless radar-snooping test case arrives, which can't happen soon enough, the justices must reaffirm the Fourth Amendment's time-tested directive against law-enforcement overreach: Get a warrant.

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