For Friday, January 30, 2009

Locust swarm image licensed under Creative Commons by [niv]

Tadpoles may hold cancer clue

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7851932.stm

New Insights Into A Leading Poultry Disease And Its Risks To Human Health

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127094038.htm

How Ebola Virus Avoids The Immune System

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127152838.htm

Five Cases Of Ebola Virus In Philippines

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/30/health/main4763711.shtml

Ebola

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola

New Disease, Comparable To BSE, Created In Laboratory Mice

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127214430.htm

BSE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy

Cases of sexually spread diseases on the rise

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28639521/

Lowly worm offers new clues on stroke, heart drugs

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50s5zo-us-heart-worms/

Caenorhabditis elegans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans

Physically Fit Kids Do Better In School

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128113246.htm

American Seniors Living Longer On Less

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128122816.htm

New Stem Cell-like Functions In Plants Found

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128132645.htm

Thirsty Plants Text For Help

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2009/0101-thirsty_plants_text_for_help.htm

Climate Change's Impact On Invasive Plants In Western US May Create Restoration Opportunities

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127112055.htm

Gene's Past Could Improve The Future Of Rice

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090123164359.htm

Rice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice



FrankenBeasts: Do Pet Clones Really Match?

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AmazingAnimals/story?id=6762235&page=1


Indonesia welcomes baby elephants


http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/ynews;_ylt=AlCONJFFZth5NAg.pzVyArSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTE0dmZlMG5lBHBvcwM4BHNlYwN5bl92aWRlb3MEc2xrA2luZG9uZXNpYXdlbA--?ch=4226713&cl=11786829&lang=en

Locust swarms 'high' on serotonin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7858996.stm

Serotonin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin

Termite Insecticide Found To Be Potent Greenhouse Gas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121144059.htm

Sulfuryl fluoride

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfuryl_fluoride

New Technology For Purifying Exhaust Gas From Diesel Engines

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090130084125.htm

Is Eight Too Much? Ethics Experts Weigh In

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6767745&page=1

'Mittens' the cat hits slopes on sled

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/ireports/2009/01/29/vo.sledding.cat.ireport

'Green' light bulb fears rejected

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7858156.stm

Britain warned over air quality

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7858655.stm

Zimbabwe cholera cases pass 60,000

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/30/Zimbabwe.cholera.cases/index.html

MS stem-cell treatment 'success'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7858559.stm

Bad peanuts found weeks before outbreak

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28931141/

Plants don't have to report contamination

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28919975/

Peanut plant problem forces fresh recall

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28899634/

"Filthy, Putrid" Substance On Peanuts

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/30/health/main4763753.shtml

Georgia wants answers for PB contamination

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/30/georgia.peanuts/index.html

Surgical Implants Coated With One Of 'Nature's Antibiotics' Could Prevent Infection
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090129180313.htm

For Thursday, January 29, 2009

Mountain Caribou's Ancient Ancestry Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128113242.htm

Rangifer tarandus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribou

South Korean bio firm says dog cloning to be cheaper

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50s0w6-us-korea-clones-dog/

How Does A Dog Walk? Surprisingly, Many Of Us Don't Really Know

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126121348.htm

Canis Lupus Familiaris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_lupus_familiaris

Bird discovery shows China's ecological potential

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090129/ap_on_sc/as_china_new_bird;_ylt=AuaO1JaqvQcj0qVlo.7Vjpys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlajBqa2tiBHBvcwMxMDYEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNiaXJkZGlzY292ZXI-

Liberia faces second worm wave

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7857410.stm

Worm saviours Could this creature be key to human health?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7856095.stm

Key food, biofuel crop sorghum's genome deciphered

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50r6hk-us-sorghum-genome/

Sorghum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum

Billion-year Revision Of Plant Evolution Timeline May Stem From Discovery Of Lignin In Seaweed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127090723.htm

New Computational Technique Allows Comparison Of Whole Genomes As Easily As Whole Books

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128160833.htm

'Fishy' Clue Helps Establish How Proteins Evolve

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127112043.htm

Al Gore testifies on greenhouse gasses

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Arctic thaw raises security concerns

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/29/arctic.global.warming.security/index.html

Ocean climate fix remains afloat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7856144.stm

EU calls for US action on climate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7856120.stm

Geoengineering To Offset Global Warming?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127190338.htm

Global Warming Fix? Some Of Earth's Climate Troubles Should Face Burial At Sea, Scientists Say

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128212809.htm

Climate Change Irreversible, NOAA Reports

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127163403.htm

Discovery may keep millions from going hungry

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/29/waterproof.rice/index.html

Chemicals 'may reduce fertility'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7855323.stm

Previously Unidentified Bacteria May Cause Preterm Birth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127090730.htm

Too many babies: What went wrong?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28902137/

Stem Cells Used To Reverse Paralysis In Animals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128160933.htm

Shaken Self-confidence? Certain Products And Activities Can Fix It

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126112321.htm

Stress Disrupts Human Thinking, But The Brain Can Bounce Back

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127190442.htm

'Paperless' Hospitals Are Better For Patients, Study Confirms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126173721.htm

Contagious Products: For Good Luck, Stay Close To A Winner

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126112309.htm

Zoloft, Lexapro best new antidepressants: study

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50s00o-us-depression/

Natural Brain Substance Blocks Weight Gain In Mice, Researchers Discover

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128074931.htm

Sepsis can strike, kill shockingly fast

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/29/ep.sepsis.infection/index.html

Sepsis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepsis

Changes needed to medical isotope production, scientist says

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/29/isotope-alternative.html

Gene therapy cures form of 'bubble boy disease'

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/29/bubble-boy.html

Peanut Corp. recalls all products back to 2007

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28899634/

FDA finds multiple problems at peanut plant

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28897859/

For Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Aptenodytes forsteri image licensed under Creative Commons by CD_Photo

Cell Phones Dangerous For Child Pedestrians, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126112429.htm

Top doctor admits she made up the condition 'cello scrotum'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7853564.stm

Evolution: Not Just Due To Natural Selection?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126203207.htm

EU calls for US action on climate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7856120.stm

UK gets biofuels research centre

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7851344.stm

Dynamical Theory And Novel 4-D Colorimetric Method Reveal Modus Operandi Of Intact Living Brain

Genetics Of Popularity In Social Networks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126173604.htm

Newborn Infants Detect The Beat In Music

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127083540.htm

New Tree Of Life Sets Lower Metazoans Apart

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126203157.htm

Metazoan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metazoan

DR Congo gorilla numbers up 12.5%

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7852953.stm

Iceland sets major whaling quota

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7854705.stm

Australia denies whaling 'deal'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7852649.stm

Iceland raises quota for whale hunts

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090128/ap_on_re_eu/eu_iceland_whaling;_ylt=AnU9OIY0vtRoiAI.S7aE91cPLBIF

Bears, Gazelles And Rats Inspire New Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Treatment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127170708.htm

OCD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCD

Emperor penguins face extinction

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7851276.stm

Aptenodytes forsteri

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Penguin

Birds Survived Mass Extinction That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Because Of Their Larger Brains

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127165505.htm

Grouse numbers in north falling

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7853393.stm

Tetrao tetrix

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_grouse

Seabird’s Ocean Lifestyle Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126162256.htm

Puffinus puffinus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_Shearwater

White Eyed Birds Diversify Across A Hemispheric Range Faster Than Any Other Bird

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126173719.htm

Zosteropidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zosteropidae

Snowy owls swoop southward, delighting birders

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090128/ap_on_re_us/snowy_owls;_ylt=AnLFTtH.QxYgNaAYmWRGe5MPLBIF

Bubo scandiacus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_Owl

Butterflies Across Europe Face Crisis As Climate Change Looms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126102043.htm

Lepidoptera

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidoptera

Honey Bees Can Tell The Difference Between Different Numbers At A Glance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127202103.htm

Gene-engineered Flies Are Pest Solution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126203205.htm

Bacterial Intestinal Infections: Was It The Chicken Salad, Private Well Water, Or The Swim?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126173831.htm

Idaho's Poor in Danger From Fish?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6747317

Ancient Wounds Reveal Triceratops Battles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127202044.htm

Triceratops

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triceratops

Scientists zero in on Earth's original animal

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28865038/

Placozoa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placozoa

N. American Comet Impact Theory Disproved

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126173729.htm

Cows find milky way to happiness

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7854745.stm

For Monday, January 26, 2009

Cull of 60,000 turkeys at B.C. farm may begin Monday

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/01/26/turkey-farm.html

China reports 5th bird flu death this year

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090126/ap_on_re_as/as_china_bird_flu;_ylt=AouQJTsaPqq56ne.X5cf.tWs0NUE

Elephants pack their trunks for Belfast Zoo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7844447.stm

New Zealand reptile becomes a father, at 111

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7850975.stm

Sphenodon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphenodon

Chinese pandas make first outing in Taipei

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7850425.stm

China's Panda Gift Delights Taiwan

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6729690

New Species Hotspot In Remote Cambodian Mekong

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090120174138.htm

Pelochelys cantorii

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_Giant_Softshell_Turtle

New Insight Into How Bees See Could Improve Artificial Intelligence Systems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090123101211.htm

Drought-hit California farmers abandoning vegetable fields

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/01/26/veggie-farmers.html

WineCrisp: New Apple Was More Than 20 Years In The Making

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122100824.htm

Microbes Fuel Energy Debate

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122093923.htm

Dinosaur Fossils Fit Perfectly Into The Evolutionary Tree Of Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126082351.htm

Although Our Genetics Differ Significantly, We All Look Alike...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126082353.htm

Microbes Fuel Energy Debate

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122093923.htm

Dinosaur Fossils Fit Perfectly Into The Evolutionary Tree Of Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126082351.htm

Sources Of Climate- And Health-afflicting Soot Pollution Over South Asia Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090123075628.htm

Satellite begins climate mission

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7839772.stm


Orbiting Carbon Observatory Investigates Mystery Of The Missing Sinks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126100148.htm

Climate Change Enhances Grassland Productivity: More Frequent Freeze-thaw Cycles Intensify Soil Processes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126082444.htm

Electrochemical Capacitors For Water Desalination

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122080928.htm

For Sunday, January 25, 2009

China reports 4th bird flu death this year

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28841978/

Avian flu detected in southern B.C.: CFIA

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/24/bc-avian-flu-detected.html

Possible Salmonella Deaths Rise to 11

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/story?id=6722921&page=1

Minn. meningitis cases worry CDC officials

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28814862/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://cdc.gov/

Haemophilus influenzae Serotype b

http://www.cdc.gov/search.do?queryText=Haemophilus+influenzae+Serotype+b&action=search&searchButton.x=52&searchButton.y=8

Haemophilus influenzae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilus_influenzae

Mystery Heart Ailment Strikes New Moms

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HeartHealth/story?id=6724565&page=1

Peripartum cardiomyopathy

http://www.cdc.gov/search.do?q=peripartum+cardiomyopathy&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&ud=1&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&btnG.x=30&btnG.y=5

Peripartum cardiomyopathy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripartum_cardiomyopathy

5 more stranded whales die in Australia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28813287/

Physeter macrocephalus or Physeter catodon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale

Last whale stranded in Australia dies

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090125/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_stranded_whales;_ylt=AsyfLL5J4OVRkwoZ.srJ8UIPLBIF

Lizards Adapting To Escape Attacks By Fire Ants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121123041.htm

Sceloporus undulatus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_fence_lizard

Sceloporus occidentalis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_fence_lizard

Fish call the mountains home

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Infidelity Produces Faster Sperm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121093339.htm

Clam Cleanup

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2009/0110-clam_cleanup.htm

Bivalvia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivalvia

Fossils seized in Mexico

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Climate shift 'killing US trees'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7841030.stm

Tree Deaths Double Across Western U.S.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122141222.htm

China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090125/ap_on_re_as/china_s_golden_dams;_ylt=AnujgZbIpx6RxKnCpmDIVzes0NUE

Mexico City vows 'green' dumps

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28777897/

Mexico City

http://www.df.gob.mx/

How Natural Oils Can Be Hydrogenated Without Making Unhealthy Trans Fats

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090123143908.htm

Apple Juice Can Delay Onset Of Alzheimer's Disease, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122100826.htm

Blueberries May Shrink Tumors In Babies

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/22/health/webmd/main4746918.shtml

Cyanococcus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry

A third 'drink over daily limit'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7844449.stm

Merck: New pill may decrease MS relapse

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28815289/

NOAA Gives Navy Marine Mammal Protection Measures For Sonar Training Off The Atlantic Coast And Gulf Of Mexico

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090124122305.htm

NOAA

http://www.noaa.gov/

World's highest drug levels entering India stream

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090125/ap_on_re_as/pharmawater_india;_ylt=Alu2U8oR8V66p3dduIGc4Oms0NUE

Seal brain and penguin breasts off Antarctic menus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090125/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_antarctica_food;_ylt=AgB40im5ejK7bl1_KL4RZ5LtiBIF

Stem Cells in Medicine & More for Friday, January 23, 2009

"Dr. Diego showing me brain stem cells that he is growing." image licensed under Creative Commons by Lloyd Y. Asato

Stem Cell OK Gives Paraplegics New Hope

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6714423&page=1


Green light for US stem cell work

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7847450.stm

FDA allows first test of human stem cell therapy

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50m2u9-us-stemcells/

FDA: 31M lbs of peanut products recalled

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_on_he_me/med_salmonella_outbreak;_ylt=AkAwtFIC91VYqnghi7pexnqs0NUE

Peanut product recall keeps spreading

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28749159/

Peanut popularity complicates salmonella probe

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/23/peanut.probe.salmonella/index.html

Farmers slash planting due to drought

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28808767/

Study: Western forests dying at increasing rate

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_sc/sci_dying_forests;_ylt=Al8ip1lYQtlRHNEtW22lifys0NUE

Antarctica Warming More Than Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121144049.htm

Treeline Advances In Canada’s Arctic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122162332.htm

Whale pod stuck on sandbar dying

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7846429.stm



Where should the elephants go?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7828251.stm

Hen lays giant egg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7847172.stm

Scientists solve mystery: 3 fish are all the same

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28801960/

Cetomimid whalefish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flabby_whalefish

Novel Explanation For A Floral Genetic Mystery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116073159.htm

Evolutionary Process More Detailed Than Previously Believed, Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116142117.htm

Nigerian police detain goat over armed robbery

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_nigeria_robbery_goat;_ylt=AioynFHg9u.Kjhk6wRZjDhHtiBIF

Study: Some people hard-wired to overeat

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28794584/

Judge orders Illinois TB patient into isolation

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_on_re_us/tuberculosis_patient;_ylt=ApbxgrJuzNljVGMsulsh5wKs0NUE

Vitamin D 'is mental health aid'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7845703.stm

'Warrior Gene' Predicts Provoked Aggression

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121093343.htm

Baffling The Body Into Accepting Transplants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121093345.htm

Excessive Weight Loss Can Be A Bad Thing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121144107.htm

Cachexia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia

Lou Gehrig's Disease In Humans Genetically Linked To Dog Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121174124.htm