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