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A Zap of Cold Plasma Reduces Harmful Bacteria on Raw Chicken

A new study by food safety researchers at Drexel University demonstrates that plasma can be an effective method for killing pathogens on uncooked poultry. The proof-of-concept study was published in the January 2012 issue of the Journal of Food Protection. Although recent ...More

6 days ago

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Plasma Treatment Zaps Viruses Before They Can Attack Cells

Adenoviruses can cause respiratory, eye, and intestinal tract infections, and, like other viruses, must hijack the cellular machinery of infected organisms in order to produce proteins and their own viral spawn. Now an international research team made up of scientists from ...More

December 16, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Plasma-Based Treatment Goes Viral

Life-threatening viruses such as HIV, SARS, hepatitis and influenza could soon be combatted in an unusual manner as researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of plasma for inactivating and preventing the replication of adenoviruses. When exposed to plasma – the fourth ...More

December 5, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Researchers are Redefining 'Clean' in Study of Low-Temperature Plasmas

Aiming to take "clean" to a whole new level, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Maryland at College Park have teamed up to study how low-temperature plasmas can deactivate potentially dangerous biomolecules left behind by ...More

October 31, 2011

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization

Study Suggests Possible New Treatment for Severe 2009 H1N1 Infection

Convalescent plasma therapy—using plasma from patients who have recovered from an infection to treat those with the same infection—has been used to treat multiple diseases. However, the efficacy of this treatment in patients with severe 2009 H1N1 influenza is unknown. A ...More

January 19, 2011

Posted in News

Plasma Therapy: An Alternative to Antibiotics?

Cold plasma jets could be a safe, effective alternative to antibiotics to treat multi-drug resistant infections, says a study published in the January issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology. The team of Russian and German researchers showed that a 10-minute treatment ...More

December 15, 2010

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New Model Tracks the Immune Response to a T

Using T cells primed for the infectious disease toxoplasmosis, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research researchers have created novel mouse models of the immune system that more accurately reflect how immune cells actually respond to pathogens in their ...More

April 8, 2010

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization

New Clues into How Invasive Parasite Spreads

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a possible strategy against an invasive parasite that infects more than a quarter of the world’s population, including 50 million Americans.The study, involving the single-celled ...More

December 3, 2009

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization

Plasma Could Knock Out MRSA

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other drug-resistant bacteria could face annihilation as low-temperature plasma prototype devices have been developed to offer safe, quick, easy and unfailing bactericidal cocktails.Two prototype devices have been ...More

November 30, 2009

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization

Foodborne Illness: An Acute and Long-Term Health Challenge

The Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention (CFI) has released a report that documents what is currently known about the long-term health outcomes associated with several foodborne illnesses. The report also discusses how under-reporting, inadequate follow-up ...More

November 16, 2009

Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization

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