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Good (Stereo)
Vibrations
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Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys is one of the classics
of pop. The 1966 track has given a new lease of life by
Dublin Institute of Technology researcher Dr Derry
Fitzgerald. He developed software that could model
individual instruments and vocals on the original mono
recording so that they could be split out and remixed.
The result is the first stereo version of Good Vibrations,
which was included in a recent re-issue of Beach Boys
albums. The technology has potential applications in
music education, where a user could enhance or remove
instruments from a recording in order to learn a piece.
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A New Weapon
66
Researchers at the Science Foundation Ireland funded
Microbiome Institute in University College Cork and
Teagasc Moorepark have found a new antimicrobial
agent, Thuricin CD, that can kill the antibiotic-
resistant bacterium Clostridium difficile, which poses
a major problem in clinical and healthcare settings.
The new antibiotic may also reduce the risk of disease
recurrence, compared with that of broad-spectrum
antibiotic treatment, because it spares the normal gut
bacteria that help to limit C. difficile growth. Thuricin
CD was discovered by screening over 30,000 bacteria
isolated from the human gut and the technology has
been licenced to a recently formed spin-out company,
Artugen Therapeutics.
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