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FORGET antibiotics, let’s try nanoparticles. That’s according to DARPA, the US military’s research arm, which says that rather than spend money on new antibiotics, which only work until bacterial strains grow resistant, “readily adaptable nanotherapeutics” can fight infection instead.

The agency has called for proposals to find ways to use small interfering RNA (siRNA) to fight bacteria. These scraps of genetic code seek out their mirror image within cells, such as bacteria, and silence them.

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There are some things that happen in football that, for a moment at least, do not seem as if they’re really happening at all. The sudden and tragic death of Gary Speed last Sunday was one of those moments. Here was a man whom everybody respected, a top professional in his playing days and manager of a revitalised Wales squad. It didn’t seem to make any sense.

In the week leading up to Speed’s death I had been reading A Life Too Short, the book about Robert Enke, the former Germany goalkeeper who killed himself, written by his friend, Ronald Reng. It was to be research for a column I was writing on depression that weekend. Twenty-four hours later Speed was found hanged at his house.

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updated 10:36 AM EST, Sat November 26, 2011 The 8 germiest places in the mall STORY HIGHLIGHTS

(Health.com) — During the craziness of the holidays, the last thing you want is to get sidelined with a cold, flu, stomach bug — or worse. But while you’re checking items off your shopping list, you may be exposing yourself to germs — like flu viruses, E.

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