The Threat Posed by Airborne Micro-Organisms

The utilization of pyridine by micro-organisms.

Assessing Threat Posed to Video CAPTCHA by OCR-Based Attacks

for his invaluable guidance, support, time, and understanding (and tolerance) this past year. Lastly, I thank my parents for their perseverance in dealing with me for the last 24 years. It really is quite a feat.

Risks to aquatic organisms posed by human pharmaceutical use.

In order to help prioritize future research efforts within the US, risks associated with exposure to human prescription pharmaceutical residues in wastewater were estimated from marketing and pharmacological data. Masses of 371 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) dispensed in the US in 2004 were estimated from marketing data, and then divided by therapeutic dose rate to normalize for poten...

Threat posed by unproven drugs in medical oncology

Correspondence to Dr Evandro de Azambuja; [email protected] Despite the advances obtained with new agents developed in recent years in oncology, most patients with metastatic solid tumours remain incurable. Oncologists face these patients on a daily basis and know that often this situation leads to denial and the search for non-scientific, sometimes called ‘alternative’, treatments. Al...

Pandemic threat posed by avian influenza A viruses.

Influenza pandemics, defined as global outbreaks of the disease due to viruses with new antigenic subtypes, have exacted high death tolls from human populations. The last two pandemics were caused by hybrid viruses, or reassortants, that harbored a combination of avian and human viral genes. Avian influenza viruses are therefore key contributors to the emergence of human influenza pandemics. In...