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Owners Of Ayrshire Meat Processing Plant Fined ÷£30,000 After Worker Loses Three Fingers In Machinery
The owners of a Prestwick meat processing plant have been convicted of failing to have a safe isolation procedure in place for machinery, after a worker lost three fingers when a machine he was attempting to repair started up.
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Cells Use Import Machinery To Export Their Goods As Well
In the bustling economy of the cell, little bubbles called vesicles serve as container ships, ferrying cargo to and from the port - the cell membrane. Some of these vesicles, called post-Golgi vesicles, export cargo made by the cell"s protein factory. Scientists have long believed that other, similar vesicles handle the reverse function, importing life-supporting nutrients and proteins through an independent process. By using a finely honed type of microscopy to more precisely examine these transactions, new research shows the processes are not as independent as assumed: certain molecules handle cargo moving in both directions. Like stevedores, they"re involved in both loading and unloading the cell"s container ships.
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Early Onset Of Prostate Cancer May Be Predicted By Genetic Marker
Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers have identified a genetic marker that is associated with an earlier onset of prostate cancer in Caucasian men who have a family history of prostate cancer. If the data are confirmed, the marker may help clinicians personalize prostate cancer screening.
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South Africa Launches HIV/AIDS Research Initiative

South Africa"s Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor on Tuesday announced a government-sponsored research initiative that "aims to combat HIV and AIDS through scientific and technological research, the development of new drugs, diagnostic tests and vaccines," SAPA/IOL reports (7/28). "[K]ey focus areas" of the South Africa HIV/AIDS Research and Innovation Platform (SHARP) will be prevention and therapeutics, according to BuaNews (7/28). SHARP has received a $5.8 million pledge from the Department of Science and Technology over the next three years to fund nine research proposals, the AP/Google.com reports (7/28). Pandor said SHARP will "give opportunities to young researchers who might not yet be established in the field, but who have bright ideas that deserve support," reports the Times. "Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, Derek Hanekom said that there was an "opportunity to leverage finances and mobilise more funds" should the projects deliver on their objectives," according to the Times. The article includes information on some of the projects funded under the new initiative (McLea, 7/28). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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