More Cancer Breakthroughs and More for Thursday, February 12, 2009

Africanized honey bees discovered in Utah for the first time

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1029499

Africanized bee

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

Scientists map Neanderthal genome; may reveal human link

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1029517

Gene explosion set humans, great apes apart

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51a8ii-us-genes-humans/

Deducing Diet Of Prehistoric Hominid With Math

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211111005.htm

Australopithecus africanus

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

Fishermen in 'dolphin rescue' off Philippines coast

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7880375.stm

Jaguar Spotted In Central Mexico For First Time In 100 Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210134448.htm

Panthera onca

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

Long-term Recovery Of Reefs From Bleaching Requires Local Action To Increase Resilience

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203110520.htm

Pubic Hair Provides Evolutionary Home For Gorilla Lice

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211101711.htm

Why Fruits Ripen And Flowers Die

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210162027.htm

France defends GM ban after report says safe in food

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51b3tb-us-france-gmo/

Discovery Fleshes Out Metabolism Of Key Environmental And Energy Bacteria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202174650.htm

On The Origin Of Subspecies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211161842.htm

Peanut butter could be labeled high-risk food

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29158355/

Salmonella found at Ga. plant as early as 2006

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29138430/

Lax Regulation In Peanut Factories

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/11/eveningnews/main4793925.shtml

Peanut butter outbreak prompts tighter food safety

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090212/ap_on_go_ot/salmonella_outbreak;_ylt=Al5YCOM0CVnNpdlmh0IGLBes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFldW9hOWNjBHBvcwM3NgRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3BvbGl0aWNzBHNsawNwZWFudXRidXR0ZXI-

Owner of peanut company in U.S. salmonella outbreak refuses to testify

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/02/11/peanut-recall.html

Peanut executives take the Fifth

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From Floor to Mouth: Sickening Peanut Info

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6848906&page=1

Arachis hypogaea

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

Victim: PCA has blood on hands

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Obama 'must act now' on climate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7885036.stm

Dramatic Rise In Sea Level And Its Broad Ramifications Uncovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209205314.htm

UK's CO2 plan 'certain to fail'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7881868.stm

New Tool Gets Handle On Cropland Carbon Dioxide Emissions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209152420.htm

Electricity From Straw And Other Waste Materials

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203081613.htm

Reducing Nitrate Discharge To Downstream Ecosystems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090131123518.htm

The 'recession diet': Fast food sales up

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7885312.stm

Measles Vaccine Not to Blame for Autism?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/AutismNews/wireStory?id=6862798

Drug Discovery Short-circuits Cancer Growth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209205052.htm

Sirolimus

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

Compounds Could Be New Class Of Cancer Drugs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203145513.htm

Exercise 'cuts colon cancer risk'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7883480.stm

Study finds hidden phosphorous in fast food

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29141110/

Paying smokers to quit may boost success rate

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29141604/

Novel Benefits Of Fatty Acids In Arteries Shown

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205161105.htm

Arginine Discovery Could Help Fight Human Obesity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204161848.htm

Arginine

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

Butt-Boosting Jabs Send Women to Hospital

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WellnessNews/story?id=6858351&page=1

Why Sleep Is Needed To Form Memories

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211161934.htm

High Level Of Adverse Drug Reactions In Hospitals Found

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211082403.htm

Genetics May Predict Risk For Relapse Among Alcohol-dependent Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203162316.htm

Even Natural Perfumes May Cause Allergies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203110549.htm

Cotton candy may help grow human tissue

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29142079/

Threats send California octuplets mom into hiding

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090211/us_nm/us_octuplets;_ylt=AnSh0dMoKGJUdaFT8UN.zPKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFhNjByZzFsBHBvcwM3BHNlYwN5bl9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrA3RocmVhdHNzZW5kYw--

For Friday, January 9, 2009

Rare venomous mammal is caught on camera

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7791989.stm

Solenodon paradoxus

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

How many meerkats? London Zoo critter count

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28562653/

Suricata suricatta

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

Mosquitoes make sweet love music

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7814404.stm

Culicidae

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

Ancient Odor-detecting Mechanism In Insects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090108121625.htm

To Bee Or Not To Bee

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/09/tech/main4709462.shtml

Big, Old Mice Spread Deadly Hantavirus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090106230720.htm

Nose-spray Vaccine Against Botulism Effective In First Tests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090108101633.htm

Structure Mediating Spread Of Antibiotic Resistance Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090108144753.htm

Neanderthals done in by competition

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28562264/

Mothers Pass On Disease Clues To Offspring

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090105120312.htm

Half Of World's Population Could Face Climate-induced Food Crisis By 2100

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090108144745.htm

Heat may spark world food crisis

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7817684.stm

FDA scientists complain to Obama of 'corruption'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090108/ap_on_go_ot/fda_dissidents;_ylt=AlnerMv5NcxjfMjXXVZGSFus0NUE

Salmonella outbreak: 1 in 5 victims in hospital

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28567096/

'Unprecedented' UK rise in measles

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7819874.stm

Global Warming: Overrides Volcano Cooling?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090105175356.htm

Decline Of Carbon-dioxide-gobbling Plankton Coincided With Ancient Global Cooling

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090108111419.htm

Andes' Formation Was A 'Species Pump' For South America

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090109083451.htm

Animals in Bulgaria zoo shiver without gas heating

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090109/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_russia_ukraine_gas_zoo;_ylt=ArcvhOosbaCOB_.iYjaZVJwPLBIF

Japan scientists clone legendary bull

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090108/sc_afp/sciencejapanbiotechcloningfood_newsmlmmd;_ylt=Aj0P1o6Zi9.xiJM7UsJTJokPLBIF

What Are These Remains?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1109174/Is-Beast-Exmoor-Body-mystery-animal-washes-beach.html

Beast of Exmoor

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

Updated Dec. 14, 2008 - For Friday, December 12, 2008

Resurgent wolves killed, despite protection

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28212074/

Nearly frozen sea turtle heading to rehab

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081214/ap_on_re_us/stranded_turtles;_ylt=ApuFkDjbm48NQSibbv_tQq4PLBIF



New quotas for EU fishermen

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7782188.stm

Massive Jellyfish Swarms In Hawaii, Gulf Of Mexico And Other Locations

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081212170654.htm

Did magnetic blip trigger mass extinction?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28199059/

Ancient armored amphibian had world's oddest bite

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4bb6yj-us-amphibian-jaws/

Orangutan's Spontaneous Whistling Opens New Chapter In Study Of Evolution Of Speech

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081211112004.htm

In The Animal World, Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081211121833.htm

Elephants 'die earlier in zoos'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7777413.stm

2,000 Elephants Missing, Poaching Likely To Blame

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081211141928.htm

Predecessor of Cows, The Aurochs, Were Still Living In The Netherlands Around AD 600

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081212081544.htm

Bos taurus primigenius

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

Lost young seal rescued from field

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7778526.stm

Whispering Bats Are Shrieking 100 Times Louder Than Previously Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081212080548.htm

Dwarf Crocodiles Split Into Three Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081212122943.htm

Cost Of Hatchling Turtles' Dash For Freedom

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081212080551.htm

Coral may predict future Indian Ocean quake: study

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4ba67a-us-indonesia-earthquake/

Scientists baffled by mysterious acorn shortage

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/12/12/acorn.shortage/index.html

Bush relaxes wildlife law limits

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7778749.stm

Climate Change Alters Ocean Chemistry

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081211141832.htm

'Oldest human brain' discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7777385.stm

Last Neandertal Contact With Modern Humans?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081209221750.htm

Lethal 'Lint Brush' Kills Cancer Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081211152518.htm

Ocular Oncologists Inject Drug Into Eye To Starve Tumors And Save Sight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/1008-saving_eyes.htm

Boy Or Girl? It's In The Father's Genes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081211121835.htm

Possible Fertility Drug-Cancer Link Found

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/11/earlyshow/health/main4661991.shtml

Clomifene

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

Sugar Can Be Addictive, Animal Studies Show

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081210090819.htm

For Friday, August 8, 2008

Henna tattoo photo licensed under Creative Commons by freshelectrons

Spices May Protect Against High Blood Sugar

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080805153830.htm

32 research monkeys die in accident at Nevada lab

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_re_us/research_monkey_deaths;_ylt=AlNlNR1s4JO2RtloxTifFvAPLBIF

Deep mystery: why sea turtles plumb the depths

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080808/ts_afp/sciencebiologyturtles;_ylt=AqBBFQHRp3kXOYD1ukhhI3APLBIF

Poland to open museum for cousin of T-Rex

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080806/sc_nm/poland_dinosaur_dc;_ylt=AofsmjsS7H.ULTXBPk2CRQIPLBIF


A Nigerian with 86 wives warns others not to follow his example

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7547148.stm

Melon Genes Elucidate Evolution Of Sex

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080807144242.htm



Perfect Legs Keep Water Striders Striding

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080804121631.htm

Gerridae

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

Hot Peppers Really Do Bring The Heat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080806140130.htm

Climate Change: When It Rains It Really Pours

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080807144240.htm

Brown Tree Snake Could Mean Guam Will Lose More Than Its Birds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080808090313.htm

Boiga irregularis

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


Complete Neandertal Mitochondrial Genome Sequenced From 38,000-year-old Bone

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080807130824.htm

Henna hazard: Chemical causes ornate allergies

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26080350/

Lawsonia inermis

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

For Monday, June 23, 2008

Bluetongue photo licensed under Creative Commons by AJC1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080623/sc_livescience/earlyearthmarredbyacidrain

Early Earth Marred by Acid Rain - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_on_re_us/ivory_billed_woodpecker;_ylt=ApRSPRA2J9WzacIwOZ4y6Vas0NUE

Some searchers still expect to see rare woodpecker - Yahoo! News

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

Campephilus principalis

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080622/ap_on_sc/sci_mars_extreme_life;_ylt=Amt3z7srf69WMq5zUs1dIais0NUE


Can the Martian arctic support extreme life? - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080621/ap_on_re_us/zoo_senior_citizens;_ylt=AgAFvUuYDPEfzxxjxyboxcOs0NUE

Zoos ask, what to do with an aged lemur? - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080621/ap_on_re_us/stranded_whale;_ylt=AndU4RUqktCxMwTfggGQT7ys0NUE

Navy conducts hearing tests on rare whale in Fla. - Yahoo! News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gervais%27_beaked_whale

Mesoplodon

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080622/ap_on_fe_st/odd_attacking_birds;_ylt=AiPNHuksgdF_FDX_RKKd..3tiBIF

Outdoors in Chicago? Watch out for the blackbirds - Yahoo! News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-winged_Blackbird

Agelaius phoeniceus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080619/od_nm/curse_dc;_ylt=AkXBdCxZnErSvQb2oUPPvjHtiBIF

Whaling commission meet to debate hunting resumption - Yahoo! News

http://www.iwcoffice.org/


Welcome to the Website of the International Whaling Commission

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7466735.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature 'Neanderthal tools' found at dig

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

Homo neanderthalensis

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7451452.stm

BBC NEWS Health Chickens 'unlock allergy secrets'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7464583.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Meteorite could hold solar clues

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080622225503.htm

DNA Study Unlocks Mystery To Diverse Traits In Dogs

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

Canis lupus familiaris

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080620115925.htm

Birds Migrate Earlier, But Some May Be Left Behind As Climate Warms Rapidly

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080619104407.htm

New Findings On Immune System In Amphibians






http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080623092538.htm

Engineers Create 3-D Model To Help Biologists Combat Blue Tongue Virus

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

Bluetongue disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080616133113.htm

Project Succeeding To Relocate Caspian Terns

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

Hydroprogne caspia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080622001716.htm

Phoenix Mars Lander Delivers Soil Sample To Microscope

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080622001541.htm

Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Frozen Water On Red Planet

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080623093549.htm

Building Giant 'Nanoassemblies' That Sense Their Environment

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24777955/

8 drugs doctors wouldn't take - Health care- msnbc.com