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	Are Nanobacteria Making Us Ill?
		At the heart of the debate is the question of whether nanobacteria could actually be a new form of life.
		But the claim was squashed two years later by a National Institutes of Health study, which found that the RNA was actually a remnant from a type of bacteria that often contaminates lab equipment.
		The link between nanobacteria and human diseases was first noticed by Kajander and microbiologist Neva Çiftçioglu in 1998.
	www.wired.com /science/discoveries/news/2005/03/66861 (910 words)

	Nanobacteria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nanobacteria are cytopathic in cell cultures and invade mammalian cells in a distinctive manner: They trigger cells that are not normally phagocytic to engulf them.
		Washed nanobacteria added to serum-free medium grew very slowly as evidenced by increase in their numbers and protein level and were firmly attached to the culture plates.
		Nanobacteria are a potential risk because of their cytotoxic properties and ability to infect fetuses, and thus their pathogenicity should be scrutinized.
	www.uku.fi /~kajander/threat.html (1364 words)

	Nanobacteria
		Nanobacteria were surprisingly resistant to this treatment, and cultures could be established from 93.1% of the stones.
		Nanobacteria: controversial pathogens in nephrolithiasis and polycystic kidney disease.
		Nanobacteria are powerful mediators of biogenic apatite nucleation (crystal form of calcium phosphate) and crystal growth under conditions simulating blood and urine.
	www.thedoctorsdoctor.com /diseases/nanobacteria.htm (1194 words)

	Nanobacteria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nanobacteria cultures were established by mixing fetal bovine serum at 20% final volume in DMEM medium without antibiotics, followed by incubation under standard cell culture conditions (5% CO air, 37¡C) up to 4 months.
		Nanobacteria were centrifuged at 20,000 g for 30 min and subcultured in serum-free DMEM on cover glasses for biofilm detection.
		In culture, nanobacteria were rapidly bound and attached as clusters an patchy areas of the cell membrane of several mammalian cells (Fig.
	www.uku.fi /~kajander/scanning.html (779 words)

	Nanobacteria in Clouds May Spread Diseases Around the World
		Nanobacteria are of great interest to the scientific community because of their dual nature, the scientists write, "on the one hand, they appear as primal biosystems originating life; on the other hand, they can cause severe diseases."
		They say nanobacteria are now accepted as being widely prevalent in the terrestrial environment and that they have compelling evidence for the existence of these nano-organisms, even in the stratosphere, one of the atmosphere's highest layers.
		Nanobacteria were discovered in the 1990s and have been found in the calcium phosphate centers of kidney stones.
	www.infowars.com /articles/science/nano_bacteria_clouds_spread_global_disease.htm (742 words)

	Airborne Nanobacteria Spread Disease, Create Rain
		The researchers say nanobacteria are now accepted as being widely prevalent in the terrestrial environment and the researchers believe they are widely dispersed in the stratosphere.
		Nanobacteria in clouds could play a crucial role in the spread of disease and in the formation of rain drops, scientists have claimed in a new research paper.
		Nanobacteria - believed to be micro-organisms much smaller than ordinary bacteria - and their possible role in creating rainfall in clouds was examined in a paper appearing in the Journal of Proteome Research.
	www.scienceagogo.com /news/20050307231848data_trunc_sys.shtml (512 words)

	Welcome to LifeScore.com! - NanoScore
		Nanobacteria are a newly discovered type of bacteria so small they can only be clearly seen with a scanning electron microscope.
		Nanobacteria were discovered as contaminants in mammalian cell cultures.
		Kajander and Ciftcioglu, isolated the nanobacteria from inside the cells in 1991 and determined that they were destroying the cells.
	www.lifescore.com /nanoscore.htm (538 words)

	Nanobacteria in clouds could spread disease, scientists claim
		They say nanobacteria are now accepted as being widely prevalent in the terrestrial environment and that their evidence is compelling for the existence of these nano-organisms, even in the stratosphere.
		Dr Sommer and Professor Wickramasinghe further suggest that nanobacteria's involvement in several serious diseases such as the formation kidney stones, heart disease, and HIV is also slowly being recognised by the scientific community.
		The contribution of nanobacteria to pathogenic bioaerosols, in the view of the authors, must overwhelm all other types of biological particles in the atmosphere.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-04/cu-nic040605.php (350 words)

	Astrobiology Magazine
		Skeptics remain unconvinced that nanobacteria are alive, but nanobacteria researchers say evidence in their favor is mounting.
		But instead of taking the prize as the smallest organism, nanobacteria-a tenth the size of ordinary bacteria and half as large as Nanoarchaeum and Mycoplasma-have continued to cause controversy since their description in the early 1990s by a Finnish research team led by Olavi Kajander.
		So nanobacteria is within this range, however, there are some forms we detected that they are even 80 or 50 nanometers." These smaller forms, she says, may not be complete cells.
	www.astrobio.net /news/print.php?sid=408 (1342 words)

	NEXUS: Nanobacteria, Calcification & Heart Disease
		Ciftcioglu's work with nanobacteria began when her PhD scholarship took her to the University of Kuopio in Finland, where alongside her once mentor, biochemist Olavi Kajander, she developed the antibodies necessary to find the particle in the human body.
		Yet scientists' inability to fully explain the genetics of nanobacteria is being used by high-ranking medical authorities as an excuse to ignore the pathogen and its treatment.
		Since then, papers have been published showing that nanobacteria have been grown in labs around the world and that patients began to improve when the pathogen was targeted in disease.
	www.nexusmagazine.com /articles/Nanobacteria.html (5676 words)

	What is Nanobacteria?
		Nanobacteria are controversial because claims of their existence have only emerged quite recently -- 1990 -- and they are smaller than what is generally considered the lower size limit for a living cell (200 nm).
		The first nanobacteria were discovered in minerals by Bob Folk, who, in a high magnification SEM study of hot springs carbonates, found miniscule 25-200 nm scale spheroidal and oval shaped objects in calcite and aragonite.
		Although the existence of nanobacteria has been challenged by both the geological and microbiological communities, many established researchers have published papers on nanobacteria and their alleged effects.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-nanobacteria.htm (365 words)

	Nanobacteria In Vaccines Made Of BSE-Possible Bovine Material
		Nanobacteria are 'nano'-sized in that they are from 20-200 nanometers in size (a nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter.
		"Nanobacteria infection by Nanobacterium sanguineum is an 'emerging infectious disease' meaning that it is newly-discovered and that the diseases it cause are being researched and further described.
		Nanobacteria were discovered in 1988 by Nobel Prize Nominees Dr. Neva Ciftcioglu, PhD and Olavi Kajander, MD, PhD as a 'contaminant' in mammalian cell cultures that kept killing the mammalian cells (apoptosis) in their mammalian cell culture research.
	www.rense.com /general32/poss.htm (2299 words)

	The Analyst - Internet Health Report: Condition: Nanobacteria Infection
		They said they found the bacteria, known as nanobacteria because of their small size, in human blood serum and also in kidney stones.
		``Nanobacteria are the smallest cell-walled bacteria, only recently discovered in human and cow blood and commercial cell culture serum,'' they wrote in their report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
		Although early in the discovery of nanobacteria and its consequences, calcium deposits in the breast and a link found to heart disease suggest that this bacteria may be present.
	www.digitalnaturopath.com /cond/C637473.html (1893 words)

	Nanobes and Nanobacteria
		Nanobacteria are the smallest cell-walled organisms on Earth, the existence of which is the center of great controversy.
		Nanobacteria are thought to have been found in human blood and may be related to health issues such as the formation of kidney stones due to their biomineralizaton processes.
		Nanobacteria may mediate processes currently thought to be controlled by inorganic chemical reactions, such as low-temperature precipitation of dolomite, oxidation of iron, and the formation of clay minerals (Folk, 1993).
	serc.carleton.edu /microbelife/topics/nanobes/index.html (1081 words)

	Space Studies Board
		Nanobacteria belong to, or may be ancestors of, the alpha-2 subgroup of Proteobacteria.
		Nanobacteria may have evolved in environmental sources, e.g., in primordial soups or later as scavengers in hot springs, to take advantage of the steady-state calcium-phosphate and nutrient supply of the mammalian blood.
		Some of their properties were similar to those of nanobacteria: presence in serum, difficulties in fixation or in disruption, inability to stain with common dyes, resistance to antibiotics and disinfectants, and high calcium-phosphate content.
	www7.nationalacademies.org /ssb/nanopanel2kajander.html (2628 words)

	NASA - Tiny Particles May Open New Ways to Study Calcification
		Recently discovered nanobacteria (NB), also called calcifying nanoparticles, behave as a microbe and show a correlation with calcification-related health problems such as arterial heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, kidney stone formation, gallstones and malignant tumors.
		“I first became interested in nanobacteria because I and others, particularly Robert Folk of the University of Texas at Austin, have seen similar forms in both Martian meteorites and in deposits from lakes and springs on Earth," said David McKay, NASA chief scientist for astrobiology at JSC and co-author of the paper.
		Calcifying nanoparticles may induce calcification and stone formation in vivo because they have been detected in human blood and are transported from blood into urine and bile as living organisms.
	www.nasa.gov /centers/johnson/home/jsc_McKay_nanobacteria.html (673 words)

	Research links nanobacteria to disease
		They reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that nanobacteria are the smallest known self-replicating, cell-walled bacteria, ranging from 20 to 200nm in size, or between 1/100th to 1/1000th the size of normal bacteria.
		Nanobacteria, they suggested, are found within deposits of apatite, a calcium- and phosphate-containing mineral found in teeth and bone.
		Kajander and others working on nanobacteria have suggested that, alive or not, they may be implicated in the pathogenesis of certain diseases and warrant further scientific investigation.
	www.drugresearcher.com /news/printNewsBis.asp?id=47907 (466 words)

	What are Nanobacteria?
		Nanobacteria are nano-sized in that they are from 20-200 nanometers in size and are the smallest known self-replicating bacteria (a nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter and is approximately the width of ten hydrogen atoms side-to-side)
		Nanobacteria were discovered in 1988 by the Finnish scientists, Neva Ciftcioglu, PhD and Olavi Kajander, MD, PhD as a contaminant that killed cell cultures.
		Nanobacteria are known to cause infections in humans, cattle, deer and are suspected to be infectious agents in other mammals.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/863548/posts (1950 words)

	BBC News \| Sci/Tech \| Do nanobacteria rule Earth and Mars?
		Nanobacteria are far smaller than any known bacteria.
		The researchers show that nanobacteria grown in the laboratory produce calcium phosphate formations, much like those found in kidney, gall, and bladder stones.
		Since they have found that nanobacteria can be grown in a mixture similar to filtered urine, they may provide valuable information for studying and treating kidney stones.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/300949.stm (522 words)

	Jackson metro & state news - The Clarion-Ledger
		"Nanobacteria are strange things," said Lynch, a clay mineralogist who studies how the objects grow in oil reservoirs.
		Called nanobes, nanobacteria or nano-organisms, the minute particles borrow their name from a unit of measurement called the nanometer, which is one-billionth of a meter.
		"Nanobacteria is a controversial term because these things are too small to be bacteria as we know them," said Kirkland, a carbonate sedimentologist from Dallas,Texas, who studies the formation of microbes in limestone.
	www.clarionledger.com /news/0310/18/m17.html (389 words)

	CMM Research - Dr Philippa Uwins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Further interest in nanobacteria was fuelled by the discovery of similar nano-sized structures in the Martian meteorite ALH84001 in 1996.
		Much of the current criticism over the existence of nanobacteria is that it has not been proven that they were ever living biological organisms which fulfilled the requirements to live namely the ability to metabolise and reproduce.
		The second argument against their existence is that nanobacteria are too small to harbour the enzymatic and genetic material considered essential for life.
	www.uq.edu.au /nanoworld/uwins.html (1558 words)

	Could Mad-Cow disease actually be caused by a type of "Nanobacteria"? - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community
		Believing them to be a possible new form of life, Kajander named the particles "nanobacteria," published a paper outlining his findings and spurred one of the biggest controversies in modern microbiology.
		At the heart of the debate is the question of whether nanobacteria could actually be a new form of life.
		Nanobacteria is a new lifeform so say some Micro-Biologists(or shall we say Nanobiologists) They have linked it to a host of common ailments including Kidney Stones(For instance in alot of stones at the center there is usually a Nanobacterial.)
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread127198/pg (1354 words)

	ExperimentBank - Comments \|\| Characterizing nanobacteria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nanobacteria are cell walled microorganisms that are approximately 200nm in diameter making them considerably smaller then the smallest bacteria.
		A recent paper has shown that "growth" of the nanobacteria is increased when they are in a microgravity environment; therefore, giving an explanation to the observed increase in kidney stones of astronauts.
		The small molecules that have an effect on the nanobacteria could be clustered by similarity to identify possible characteristics of the nanobacteria.
	www.experimentbank.org /comments/2005/4/14/143219/085/0/post (384 words)

	Why Abiogenesis Is Impossible
		When Finnish biologist Olavi Kajander discovered nanobacteria in 1998, he called them a “bizarre new form of life.” Nanobacteria now are speculated to resemble primitive life forms which presumably arose in the postulated chemical soup that existed when earth was young.
		Kajander concluded that nanobacteria may serve as a model for primordial life, and that their modern-day primordial soup is blood.
		Actually, nanobacteria cannot be the smallest form of life because they evidently are parasites and primordial life must be able to live independently.
	www.trueorigin.org /abio.asp (9607 words)

	The Bacteria in the Stone Extra-tiny microorganisms may lead to kidney stones and other diseases
		Although his group's work suggested that nanobacteria often contaminate fetal bovine serum, and more rarely human blood, Kajander's research was largely ignored by his colleagues in Finland and the rest of the world.
		As Kajander and his colleagues learned more about nanobacteria, they grew increasingly curious as to whether the microbes were responsible for any human diseases, particularly ones not normally attributed to infectious agents.
		Nanobacteria are resistant to many antibiotics, perhaps because of their mineral shells, but tetracycline has proven effective against them in test-tube experiments, he notes.
	www.sciencenews.org /sn_arc98/8_1_98/bob2.htm (2181 words)

	Are Nanobacteria Making Us Ill?
		Believing them to be a possible new form of life, Kajander named the particles "nanobacteria," published a paper outlining his findings and spurred one of the biggest controversies in modern microbiology.
		The Mayo study found that nanobacteria does indeed self-replicate, as Kajander had noticed, and endorsed the idea that the particles are life forms.
		Though he maintains his stance that nanobacteria are not alive, he said in a phone interview that he is not against further research.
	www.rense.com /general63/anano.htm (1275 words)

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