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The ACLU, breast cancer patients, and researchers are taking the holder of the patent on the breast cancer gene to court. Myriad Genetics holds the patent to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations that cause hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. You can read the suit here. For media coverage...

Image credit: Emmanuelle Bournay, UNEP/GRID-Arendal) Appears in UN publication here: Kick the Habit: A UN Guide to Carbon Neutrality - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota judge has ruled that a 13-year-old cancer patient whose parents want to treat him with "alternative medicine" must seek conventional medical treatment for their son. In a 58-page ruling Friday, Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg found that Daniel Hauser...

The EPA gave notice that it will be reviewing the Clean Water Act legislation, to extend CO2 regulation out to the oceans. EPA moves toward regulating carbon dioxide - Climate Change - MSNBC.com So, now they appear to have both Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act legislation backing regulatory...

Hey Bear, hope you don't mind if I borrow your title for this thread;-) Just beware the extremists in general!

Anyone watching Chelsea v. Liverpool? Two-nil for Liverpool right now, that's 3-3 on aggregate right now. Good pace.

Last year, the group at Colorado State lead by Bill Gray came pretty close with their early predictions for the season which officially begins on July 1. This year, Gray's co-author in years past Dr. Phil Klotzbach is leading the group, as Dr. Gray steps back after 22 years leading the group...

The barreleye fish, L. Macropinna microstoma, was first described in 1939 and has baffled physiologists for decades. The barrelfish belongs to the Opisthoproctidae family, and they are sometimes referred to as spook fish. The fascinating aspect of these fishes is the tubular eyes. The fish has...

MP accuses Tories of campaign to discredit Tim Naumetz THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA –...

I thought some of you may like to see a presentation I did last semester on this very subject in an ecology class. It has some relevant links, and a few nice graphics. You can follow the refernces as well. http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dfrz479d_1xkjbs4cj

Missing inflatable breasts found More than 100,000 pairs of missing inflatable breasts intended for an Australian men's magazine promotion have turned up in Melbourne. The shipment of plastic boobs from China had been missing for more than a week after Chinese officials lost the paperwork and...

Methane, Potent Greenhouse Gas, Flowing Into The Atmosphere From Tundra Much Faster Than Expected ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2008) — Much more methane gas is being emitted into the atmosphere from the tundra in northeast Greenland than previous studies...

Exxon Valdez spill payments reach claimants: Exxon Valdez spill | adn.com Well, it's nice that those fisherman are finally getting their compensation...from $5 billion cut down to $383 million. The best legal team money can buy surely. Looks like the plaintiffs team is doing pretty well for...

That's chutzpah! What a load of crap.

BBC NEWS | Americas | OJ Simpson sentenced to 15 years Good riddance.

Boy Charged In Slayings Offered Deal - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix Geez. That's sad. At eight years old I was content to catch frogs and tad poles and play baseball. Maybe shoot some cans with my air rifle. But never shoot a person.

Are you a fan, or do you just like the art? I had used that avatar for a time on this forum, only the mirror image :D

Shark blood could help fight malaria and arthritis | Practical Fishkeeping magazine Promising research!

Have to do some maintenance, found some interesting stuff some folks may like. First 24 hours of life in an embryo. Just what it sounds like. It's 24 hours worth of video(sped up of course) that shows the zygote through to approximately 20,000 cells. Very cool. Needed many different planes of...