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Sensors to detect explosives, monitor food being developed at UH

HOUSTON, Jan. 20, 2011 — Monitoring everything from explosives to tainted milk, materials for use in creating sensors for detection devices have been developed by a University of Houston (UH) chemist and his team. The findings recently appeared …

Stomach bacteria need vitamin to establish infection

Scientists have determined that Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium that causes peptic ulcers and some forms of stomach cancer, requires the vitamin B6 to establish and maintain chronic infection, according to research published this week in the onli…