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The weekly roundup - Oct 1
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:01:44
Publish Date: 2016-09-30 19:00:00
Description: An older generation antibiotic that’s currently used in animals to reduce bacterial infections was found to block contemporary strains of Zika virus in human tissue in the lab. We met up with Dr. Lenore Pereira of UC San Francisco, who joined forces with colleagues at UC Berkeley to make this discovery. "What’s interesting about this drug, it’s called Duramycin, it’s a small molecule inhibitor and it works directly against the virus envelope – it doesn’t work against the cell, so it’s very specific for Zika virus, Dengue, Ebola. We are thrilled about the finding." And over at the Livermore Lab, computer scientists are excited their software-based network security tool is overcoming some of the limitations of commercial-based products. It’s called Network Mapping System, or NeMS and as Domingo Colon explains, it gives administrators and security personnel a better way to constantly assess what a user’s environment looks like. "It provides them a pretty immediate feedback to figure out who’s doing what and is this a problem? Sometimes you need that immediacy and to determine from that information is it something that you need to take action on?" Meanwhile, materials scientists at UC Riverside describe how their work with nanocrystalline metals can be used beyond automotive and transportation applications. "Including things like biomedical implants. If we can make things like stents and facial implants out of lightweight materials like magnesium, the magnesium will also dissolve in the body over time and the implant may not have to be removed." To hear these and other segments about the latest University of California research, subscribe to Science Today on iTunes or follow us on Soundcloud. Thanks for listening, I’m Larissa Branin. Subscribe to Science Today: iTunes: apple.co/1TQBewD Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/science-today Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ucsciencetoday Stories mentioned in this roundup: https://soundcloud.com/sciencetoday/zika_antibiotic https://soundcloud.com/sciencetoday/nems_tool https://soundcloud.com/sciencetoday/metal_nanostructure
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