WHO Loses H1N1 Count & Cure for MD? & More for Friday, July 17, 2009

WHO to stop counting swine flu cases

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/17/who-swine-flu-counting.html

Swine flu so widespread, WHO stops counting

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31962005/ns/health-swine_flu/

Fight for swine flu vaccine could get ugly

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31944668/ns/health-swine_flu/

H1N1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1N1

Genetic Source Of Muscular Dystrophy Neutralized: Possible Cure?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716141127.htm

Muscular dystrophy

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


Male Sex Chromosome Losing Genes Via Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716201127.htm

Y Chromosome

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

DNA Not The Same In Every Cell Of Body

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715131449.htm

DNA

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

Neanderthals were likely poised for extinction

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31948849/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Homo neanderthalensis

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

How Dachshunds Got Such Short Legs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716141146.htm

Dachshund

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

Canis lupus familiaris

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

Canis lupus familiaris (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1228387

Tiny lizard falls like a feather

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8150000/8150333.stm

Holaspis guentheri

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

Holaspis guentheri (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/793276

In sand, desert lizard swims like a snake

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31949660/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Scincus scincus

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

For fish, it’s the more the merrier

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31952465/ns/technology_and_science-science/


San Diego menaced by jumbo squid

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8155417.stm

Dosidicus gigas

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

Dosidicus gigas (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/403181

Tiger moths can thwart bats by jamming sonar

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31950404/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Bertholdia trigonia

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

Eptesicus fuscus

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

Eptesicus fuscus (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/327553


Ecologist Brings Century-old Eggs To Life To Study Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716203205.htm

Ancient Microbes Helped Build Rock Structures

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716141221.htm

Stromatolite

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

Capturing CO2: Global Warming Fix From Microbes?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715101441.htm

‘Catching CO2 in a Bowl’ – Inorganic Chemistry

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic802454w

Arctic Sea Ice Images Derived From Classified Data Should Be Made Public, According To A New Report

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715112033.htm

Major Arctic Sea-ice Formed Earlier Than Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715131435.htm

Arctic Climate Under Greenhouse Conditions In The Late Cretaceous

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709095422.htm

Summer Is Here And The Mercury Is Rising ... Literally

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715160446.htm

Organic Mercury

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_mercury#Safety

Waste From Textile Industry Transformed Into Rich Compost With Help Of Manure And Earthworms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716093959.htm

How do you build a wind farm out at sea?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8151222.stm

Low carbon way 'to reshape lives'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8150919.stm

Solar Power: New SunCatcher Power System Ready For Commercial Production In 2010

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709205950.htm

Retailers miss plastic bag target

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8155057.stm

Baking Soda: For Cooking, Cleaning, And Kidney Health?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716201123.htm

Sodium Bicarbonate

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

How the Late Heavy Bombardment Promoted Life in the Hadean and More for Thursday, May 21, 2009

Asteroid May Have Enhanced Early Life On Earth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520140403.htm

Study turns back clock on origins of life on Earth

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54j5px-us-asteroids/

Late Heavy Bombardment

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

Hadean

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

Arsenic In Irrigation Water Is Transferred To Crops

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513121417.htm

Swine Flu Risk Linked To Arsenic Exposure

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520151436.htm

Arsenic

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

H1N1 flu must be global before Phase 6: WHO chief

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54k1wq-us-flu-who-pandemic/

Computer Simulation Captures Immune Response To Flu

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518111729.htm

Swine Flu And Other New Infectious Diseases -- What's The Risk?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519104111.htm

Orangutans seen eating own babies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8058000/8058365.stm

Pongo

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

Marine Mammals' Brains Exposed To Hazardous Cocktail Of Pesticides Including DDT, PCBs, Brominated Flame Retardants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520122227.htm

Rare white elephant seal caught on camera in the sub-Antarctic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8059000/8059966.stm

Mirounga

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

Bird Songs Change With The Landscape

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520114710.htm

Magnets in ant antennae work as internal GPS

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30852573/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Midge Bones In Lake Sediments Reveal Fish History

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511181248.htm

Nematocera

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

Snail Venoms Reflect Reduced Competition

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520161330.htm

Historical Anecdote Of Jordan's Red Soils May Offer New Antibiotic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518222202.htm

Protein From Algae Shows Promise For Stopping SARS

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520114659.htm

Agricultural Aromatherapy: Lavender Oil As Natural Herbicide

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514083921.htm

Lavandula

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

Neurons 'Mirror' The Attention Of Others

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518172451.htm

'Junk' DNA Has Important Role, Researchers Find

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520140408.htm

Plastic That Grows On Trees

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519134837.htm

Non-wovens As Scaffolds For Artificial Tissue

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513091520.htm

Mars may have been both cold and wet

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54j5e2-us-mars-freezing/

Mars

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

Balaenoptera Return and DNA Damage Seen in Pollution Cases and More for Monday, May 18, 2009

* Phalacrocorax carbo image licensed under Creative Commons by kaibara87

Nations urge WHO to change pandemic assessment

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/18/health-swine-flu-who-meeting-pandemic-severity-virus-spread-deadly.html


Artificial Simulator Of The Nervous System Created For Research Into Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513091615.htm

EDLUT

http://code.google.com/p/edlut/

New System For Personalized Cancer Treatment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090517081157.htm

Particulates May Damage DNA In Just Three Days

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090517143218.htm

Engineered antibodies fight AIDS virus in monkeys

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54g20c-us-aids-vaccine/

Menstruation genes discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8046457.stm

Jump in swine flu cases in Japan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8054881.stm

Painkiller Patch Can Lead To Addiction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090515083820.htm

Change in cigarettes more dangerous to lungs?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30804744/

Biological Diversity: Islands Beat Mainland Nine To One

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511180651.htm

Blue whales returning to former Alaska waters

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090518/ap_on_sc/us_blue_whales;_ylt=AqtFLJpssb7eU7kVZBEwx_MPLBIF

Balaenoptera musculus

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

Dolphins seen trying to kill calf

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8048000/8048288.stm

Sotalia fluviatilis

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

Baby elephant's birth webcast live

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8054575.stm

Enriched Environment Improves Wound Healing In Rats

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512202736.htm

* Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare seabirds

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090517/ap_on_sc/us_predator_eagles;_ylt=Ao0lrUWQLYA16kNZaC6VnvAPLBIF

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

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

Phalacrocorax carbo

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

World's Largest Leatherback Turtle Population

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090517212653.htm

Dermochelys coriacea

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

Golden Rice An Effective Source Of Vitamin A

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513121102.htm

Golden Rice

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

Vitamin A

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



New Red Alga Discovered In Mediterranean Sea

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513091515.htm

Leptofauchea coralligena

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a908652311~db=all~jumptype=rss

Woman finds seahorse in garden

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8053275.stm

Level 6 Alert? and Stabilize Warming and More for Monday, May 4, 2009

Pinus ponderosa image licensed under Creative Commons by cm195902

WHO head indicates full flu pandemic to be declared


http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5431di-us-flu-who-pandemic/


More than 1,000 swine flu cases worldwide: WHO


http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/04/swine-flu-world-health119.html



Swine Flu Update: At Least 18 Countries Affected; Human-to-Pig Infection Reported In Canada


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090503190223.htm


Halving Carbon Emissions To Stabilize Warming?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090502092019.htm

Potentially Harmful Chemicals Found In Forest Fire Smoke

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430091057.htm

Pinus ponderosa

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

Alkaloid

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

Climate Change Threatens Unique Ecosystems of World's Largest Lake, Lake Baikal

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501090925.htm

Lake Baikal

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

Global Warming Data Buried in Mud

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7454828

Researchers flag increasing levels of fresh water in Labrador Sea

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/05/04/labrador-sea-504.html

Labrador Sea

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

Brain Can Recognize Objects Much Faster

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429132231.htm

Man chooses grizzly bear as 'best man' at wedding

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1066923

Ursus arctos horribilis

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

Wolves come off endangered species list in northern Rockies

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1066925

Canis lupus

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

Mummified puppy found in Egyptian tomb

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30519834/

Isolated Birds Evolve 'Normal' Species Song

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090503132617.htm

Mexico to review flu restrictions

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8032582.stm

China denies flu discrimination

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8032157.stm

Mexicans defy swine flu advice

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8032248.stm

Swine flu: mapping the outbreak

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021547.stm

China bans Alberta pork after virus infects pig herd: media report

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/05/03/china-haltspork.html


Can masks help stop flu spread?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8024605.stm

Rare raccoon roundworm blinds teen

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30558815/

Procyon lotor

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

Toxocaridae (Raccoon roundworm)

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

Matrix Protein Key To Fighting Viruses

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429091336.htm

Toxic mercury levels in seal meat linked to melting Arctic ice

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/04/tech-090504-seal-meat-mercury.html

How Mercury Emissions Reach Tuna And Other Seafood, And Why Mercury Contamination Is Likely To Worsen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501195628.htm

Thunnus

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

Mercury

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)

New Southern California Beetle Killing Oaks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501154147.htm

Agrilus coxalis

http://cisr.ucr.edu/goldspotted_oak_borer.html

Quercus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_(genus)

Date Palm Genome Drafted

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501162809.htm

Phoenix dactylifera

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

Why Invasive Plants Take Over

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090502082952.htm

Euphorbia esula

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

Pueraria lobata

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

New Technique For Modifying Plant Genes Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429132233.htm

Analysis Finds Strong Match Between Molecular, Fossil Data In Evolutionary Studies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428171004.htm

Backyard scientists use Web to aid research

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/05/04/citizen.science.climate.change/index.html

Ducklings tour White House

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/05/03/vonat.white.house.ducklings.cnn

WHO Urges Awareness, EU Urges Calm, Thursday, April 30, 2009

Please Note: We are taking the advice of Dr. Chan of the WHO under advisement. But we are also taking the advice of the EU not to panic. (Does anybody listen to Joe Biden anyway?)

Unrelated: is it ethical to use dynamite in paleontology? (We urge you to use the Wiki link to paleontology as they have what appears to be an excellent graphic on the page).

Mexico shuts down economy as flu pandemic imminent

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53n228-us-flu/

EU warns against swine flu panic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8027043.stm

Mapping the outbreak

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021547.stm

Avian Flu Research Sheds Light On Swine Flu

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429132238.htm

Swine flu source spawns wild theories

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53t3zk-us-flu-theories/

From Swine Flu To Dengue Fever: Infectious Disease Risks On The Rise

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429162152.htm

Evolution In A
Test Tube: Scientists Make Molecules That Evolve And Compete, Mimicking Behavior Of Darwin's Finches

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429140849.htm

New Pill To Treat Multiple Sclerosis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429205613.htm

Multiple Sclerosis

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

U.S. Shorts Critical Farm Animal Research, Scientists Say

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423142450.htm

Tiny Differences In Our Genes Help Shed Light On The Big Picture Of Human History

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429162244.htm

Human Genome

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

Native Americans Descended From Single Group

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428223836.htm

Native American

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

Spider sex violent but effective

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8023413.stm

Harpactea sadistica

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01698p068f.pdf

Dynamite Used To Reveal New Layer Of Dinosaur Fossils

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429131935.htm

Dynamite

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