Archive for December 11th, 2008
11 Dec
Lame Duck Memory Lane
11 Dec
Bush giving up on easing restrictions for existing coal-fired power plants
Bush Administration drops effort to torpedo clean air rules
Source: Raw Story~Associated Press
Six weeks before leaving office, the Bush administration is giving up on an effort to ease restrictions on pollution from coal-burning power plants, a key plank of its original energy agenda and one that put the president at odds with environmentalists his entire eight [...]
11 Dec
Synthetic Bugs help investigate species-hopping killers
(Image: Synthetic SARS virus (tagged with fluorescent green protein) growing in mouse respiratory tissue / PNAS)
Synthetic Viruses Could Explain Animal-to-Human Jumps
Source: By Brandon Keim ~ Wired Science
In a technical tour de force with potentially profound implications for the study of emerging diseases, researchers have built the largest-ever self-replicating organism from scratch.
The organism is a virus based [...]
