In my work at AgingParents.com, I see families struggle with trying to get a resistant elder to move into assisted living.
President Barack Obama continues to press a resistant Congress to allocate funds.
Australian scientists are attempted to use genetic modification to develop a strain resistant to Race 4, while those in Honduras are working on breeding a better banana through more conventional means, by cross-pollination.
The ministry would also like to oversee a wider distribution of genes from the small percentage of British rams that are resistant to scrapie, a sheep disease similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease as it is more commonly known.
Over the past few months, we've been hearing more about a type of bacteria that's resistant to a number of antibiotics.
Experts say Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a form of staph resistant to common antibiotics, has become a more prevalent problem in settings such as contact sports that involve skin-to-skin touching.
It is resistant to a number of antibodies, so that when people get septicaemia they are harder to treat.
Most of them have had but a single gene tweaked, either to make them poisonous to pestilential insects or resistant to a particular herbicide so that it can be used freely.
Mice with the variation were more resistant to a particular aspect of the toxin.
Herbicide tolerant crops are made resistant to a proprietary weedkiller, while Bt crops include genes that produce an insect-killing toxin.
They observed it was present at higher levels in cancer cells that were resistant to a common treatment for the disease.
It's water resistant up to a depth of one meter and can hold its breath for 30 minutes, while a 4-inch WVGA display will beam out Android 4.1.
Of those contaminated samples, 84% were resistant to one antibiotic, and a whopping 53% of them were resistant to at least three kinds of the drug.
Recent examples: molecules to target drug-resistant bacteria and a kinase inhibitor to zap the enzyme responsible for tumor growth.
Those that survive then mate with other resistant rats, allowing a generation of rats resistant to existing poisons to build up.
Using Li-poly instead of Li-ion is a strategic move: these batteries are more resistant to overcharging and offer a lower likelihood of leakage.
SunBriteTV have updated their range of weather resistant LCDs with a top end 46-inch model that brings the nature resistant features of it smaller siblings to a much larger screen area.
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For example, making a component resistant to temperature changes sometimes comes at the cost of strength.
When China released its first nationwide survey this year, it found 5.7% of that country's newly diagnosed TB patients were multi-drug-resistant, according to a study published this year in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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It may prove possible to create a tasty banana that is resistant to Panama disease.
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While the core of Europe seemed resistant to the peripheral slowdown a few quarters ago, growth numbers have now started to disappoint, and expectations are being revised lower.
Thousands of farmers have been spreading straw soaked in disinfectant around the boundaries of their land, in a bid to create a disease-resistant barrier.
If it turns out to be a non-resistant strain, you can then switch to the cheaper vancomycin.
When natural evolution causes weeds or pests to resist their poisons, which their crops are resistant to, they simply breed a new crop and create a new poison to kill the pests.
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It will also need to be resistant to viruses, which will otherwise be a big threat to such a concentrated population of identical organisms.
Teams of workers Thursday began taking measurements to layer the inside of the windows with a Mylar shatter-resistant coating similar to that on car windshields.
Lavinia Gibbs is born to a prominent New York family but is resistant to the expectations that good breeding and femininity impose.
Liquidmetal is an alloy that is strong and resistant to corrosion and scratches, and has a similar moulding ability to that of thermoplastics.
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Gore went on to decry corporate decisions to develop herbicide-resistant crops and a bacterium that could prevent commercially crippling frost damage to crops.
The justices interrupted Reno repeatedly, and even the most conservative members of the high court seemed resistant to giving police the authority, after a traffic stop, to order passengers out of a car along with the driver.
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