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- Molecular tweaks to a known pesticide may make it effective at killing pests while keeping beneficial bugs— such as bumble bees—safe. The pesticides, which overstimulate the nervous system to eventually kill the insect, don’t have the same effect on humans and other mammals. http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/refining-pesticides-to-kill-pests-not-bees/ 7 comments science
- Clostridium difficile infections kill approximately 14,000 Americans every year, often because the diarrhea-causing bacteria are highly resistant to standard antibiotics. Now, scientists have found an unusual way to combat the bugs: human feces in pill form http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/10/feces-filled-capsules-treat-bacterial-infection 49 comments science