Andrea told me about this and I found this story about it at WWW.PHYSORG.COM on Friday.

"Afla-Guard(R), a biological control used to thwart the growth of fungi on peanuts, can be used on corn as well, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists who helped develop it."

Uninsured minority pedestrians hit by cars are at a significantly higher risk of death than their insured white counterparts, even if the injuries sustained are similar, new research from Johns Hopkins suggests.

UK Border Agency publishes a list of its weirdest finds following the discovery of a briefcase full of dead pigeons at Gatwick Airport.

Yvonne told me about this - "Regional Director of WHO for Africa Luis Sambo discussed during the 60th session of the Africa Committee of the WHO how the global economic situation could impact funding for health programs in Africa and the ability for countries to reach U.N. Millennium Development Goal targets, PANA/Afrique en ligne reports."

I saw this posted Friday on WWW.PHYSORG.COM.

"Female induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, reprogrammed from human skin cells into cells that have the embryonic-like potential to become any cell in the body, retain an inactive X chromosome, stem cell researchers at UCLA have found."

"A study has found that the bird that carried the influenza virus H5N1 into Thailand was a gull, not the openbill stork."

From WWW.NATIONMULTIMEDIA.COM