Eating fresh fruit may make you sick. Researchers in Canada have discovered that pesticide sprays encourage life-threatening bacteria to grow on crops, which could pose a threat to people eating raw fruit and vegetables. A key immune system that's supposed to protect us could turn killer. Researchers from Wisconsin claim that rogue white blood cells infected with viruses can cause a range of serious diseases. Macrophages are the immune system's infantry, killing invaders by engulfing them, but researchers think macrophages go berserk when infected by latent viruses.
Cuts made along collagen fibers in the skin are less likely to leave unsightly scars.
However, their direction varies from person to person. This new laser indicates the best place to make incisions and could prove valuable to plastic surgeons. Transmission speeds from new GPRS cellphones will be held down to keep them within radiation absorption guidelines and to stop them overheating. GPRS is meant to be faster and cheaper than today's WAP phones but in order to stay within emission guidelines this may be a hollow promise. Viruses on the Web are all too common, but now it's the turn of bacteria, says British Telecom.