Norovirus resists freezing and heating to 60°C and is not eradicated by alcohol-based hand sanitizers.
Sources
More in Science
- The glycemic index value of the same food can vary depending on how it is prepared and processed.
- An adiabatic invariant is a property of a physical system that stays approximately constant when changes to the system occur slowly.
- The 110-million-year-old Mongolian dinosaur Zavacephale was identified as the oldest pachycephalosaur yet discovered and already possessed a domed skull, 14 million years earlier than paleontologists had thought pachycephalosaurs evolved that feature.
- The Framingham Heart Study enrolled more than 5,000 residents of Framingham, Massachusetts, starting in 1948, and later expanded to include the grandchildren of the original volunteers.
- Mayo Clinic researchers conducted the world's first prospective, blinded, placebo-controlled clinical study testing bone marrow stem cells to reduce arthritic pain and disability in the knees.
- Oxygen needs for supplemental oxygen therapy are reviewed every 2 to 3 months.