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  2. The Andromeda Strain - Wikipedia

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    The book is framed as a report from a secret government project, which the scientists are part of, and includes text-based computer imagery illustrating the results of various tests on the organism. The Andromeda Strain appeared in The New York Times Best Seller list , establishing Michael Crichton as a genre writer, and as an early example of ...

  3. Disinfectant - Wikipedia

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    Bacterial endospores are most resistant to disinfectants, but some fungi, viruses and bacteria also possess some resistance. [10] Disinfectants are used to rapidly kill bacteria. They kill off the bacteria by causing the proteins to become damaged and the outer layers of the bacteria cell to rupture. The DNA material subsequently leaks out.

  4. Prey (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The book features relatively new advances in the computing/scientific community, such as artificial life, emergence (and by extension, complexity), genetic algorithms, and agent-based computing. Fields such as population dynamics and host-parasite coevolution are also at the heart of the novel. Film rights to the book were purchased by 20th ...

  5. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    The black trump virus is a variant of xenovirus takis-B. Rather than a cure, this retrovirus was designed to kill aces, jokers, latents, and wild card carriers. Dr. Tachyon's original trump virus was designed to turn wild carders back into nats (a slang term for naturals), those who do not carry xenovirus takis-A in their system. Bloodfire

  6. Deinococcus radiodurans - Wikipedia

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    A tin of meat was exposed to a dose of radiation that was thought to kill all known forms of life, but the meat subsequently spoiled, and D. radiodurans was isolated. [1] The complete DNA sequence of D. radiodurans was published in 1999 by The Institute for Genomic Research. A detailed annotation and analysis of the genome appeared in 2001. [4]

  7. Pathogenic bacteria - Wikipedia

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    Pathogenic bacteria are bacteria that can cause disease. [1] This article focuses on the bacteria that are pathogenic to humans. Most species of bacteria are harmless and many are beneficial but others can cause infectious diseases. The number of these pathogenic species in humans is estimated to be fewer than a hundred. [2]

  8. By the numbers: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - AOL

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    To Kill a Mockingbird's ranking by an organization of British librarians on a list of books that everyone should read before they die 2: The ranking of The Bible on that same list

  9. Clostridium botulinum - Wikipedia

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    C. botulinum is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, spore-forming bacterium. [1] It is an obligate anaerobe, the organism survives in an environment that lacks oxygen.However, C. botulinum tolerates traces of oxygen due to the enzyme superoxide dismutase, which is an important antioxidant defense in nearly all cells exposed to oxygen. [7]