News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology
Genes Culled From Desert Soils Suggest Potential Medical Resource Despite their ecologic similarity, soils from three geographically distinct areas of the American southwest harbor vastly different collections of small, biosynthetic genes, a finding that suggests the existence of a far greater diversity of potentially useful products than was previously supposed. The research is published in the May issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Health care assistants 'must be registered' say MPs
Patients are being put at risk because health care assistants (HCAs) who make serious mistakes are not banned from the profession, MPs warn today. (Source: Telegraph Health)