Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Flu Shot Made From Caterpillars Fails Safety Vote (Update3) - Bloomberg.com There is an arms race on right now to find a non-chicken based way to grow flu vaccines that will hopefully be much faster. So of course, caterpillars. Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Protein Sciences Corp. failed to prove its experimental flu vaccine is safe enough to be approved and more study is needed, a U.S. advisory panel said....
The Whig (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This guy is ticked off: Science Blogs: Bill Maher flames out in a pyre of stupidity over vaccines--again . A very long post exposing the errors behind anti-vaccine advocates. An excerpt: All I can say is this: If you had any doubts that Bill Maher is an unreconstructed anti-vaccine loon, this post provides conclusive evidence, all topped off with a heapin' helpin' of arrogance of ignorance and that...
Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
# 4046 While it sounds like something out of a science-fiction novel, researchers have spent years working on a new way to manufacture influenza vaccines by inserting genetically engineered pieces of the influenza virus into caterpillar cells. The promise of this cell-based manufacturing technique is that it can produce vaccine in 1/3rd the time of the traditional egg-based technology; in as little...
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Thanks to their vast underground fungus farms, leafcutter ants are one of Earth’s most successful species — and one secret of their agricultural success is bacteria, which the ants use like fertilizer. By farming with microbes that pull nitrogen from the air, the ants thrive in nitrogen-poor rain forest soil. Researchers say their bug-harnessing tricks might [...]
Fiercebiotech (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee today will determine whether Protein Sciences' flu vaccine FluBlok, which can be produced in less than two months by inserting flu genes into an insect virus and growing it in caterpillar ovary cells, warrants approval. FluBlok can be produced in a third of the time it takes larger drugmakers, including Sanofi-Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline...
Oil Is Mastery (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Notice the UFO firing a parthenogenesis beam at Mary? I just remember a funny argument I had with the noobs on SciForum before they banned my last sock puppet. Atheists love to refer to the virgin birth of the extraterrestrial (see John 8:23 ) Jesus Christ as a miracle, by which they mean to say a violation of the laws of nature. What atheists don't realize is that parthenogenesis is not a miracle...
Shuggy's Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
From the Queen's speech we learn that children in England are to be given legal rights to a good education . Blair may be gone but the Project lives, its essence distilled in this proposal: why actually do something when you can pass a law that says something must be done, instead? You'd think that after twelve years of government, they might ponder that perhaps the whole central control thing hasn't...
Inter Financial Weblog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
You see a swarm of insects outside your home one bright and sunny spring day. You immediately think termites. But how do you know what they are? After all, swarming ants are very similar to swarming termites. What are the signs of termites? Can you recognize them?
Jonk Music (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
"Sooner or Later" from the EP Cameo 2009 iTunes Your typical singer that possesses the airy whispery vocal styling tends to take a back seat to the instrumentation that accompanies it, but that is not the case with modern shoegazers Zaza. These mystical, dreamy vocals hold just as much weight as the swirl of sound that gives Zaza's music the shoegaze name. Their new EP Cameo features six...
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
An oldie but goodie, updated for the realities of 2009 and 2010. OLD VERSION The ant works hard in the...( read more )
TheShoeGoddess.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
What: Pick up cheap designer duds at eM Productions’ season sample sale. The designer roster includes items from Society for Rational Dress, Grey Ant, Grai, Endovanera, Mary Meyer, Grey Antics, Brian Lichtenberg, and more. Cash only. When: Thursday, November 19, and Friday, November 20, from 10 to 6 p.m. Where: eM Productions Sample Sale at the Cooper [...]
Audio Journal (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Go to: My Other Blog / twitter.com/mjasmith M and I went to see Kasabian at Wembley Arena on Sunday night. Wembley is quite possibly my least favourite venue, a feeling that was enhanced on Sunday by public transport issues and further compounded by not being especially bothered about seeing the band. M’s a fan, whereas I can’t seem to get past front man Tom Meighan’s laddish persona...
TV or not TV (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Brian Paddick, Nicola Mclean, Carly Zucker, David Van Day… You may think it would have been impossible for ITV to out Z-list last year’s ‘I’m a Celebrity…’ line-up this year… but you would be wrong. This year’s crop of jungle dwellers read like a who’s who of the people Burnley council passed over to turn on the Christmas lights this year (instead...
Hippiedaze's Tutorials (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
This tutorial was written on November 17th 2009 by Susan aka Hippiedaze. The idea for this tag is off my own head lol and any resemblance is purely coincidence. General Knowledge of psp is required, tutorial was written in psp 9 but will work in other versions. Supplies Needed Tube/s of Choice, I used the artwork of Sonia Roji, you must have a proper license to use his work please visit MPT - mypsptubes...
swrc (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Here is a short taster of the SWRC Jazz night that took part at Fetcham village hall and featured the Expanding Waistband together with the fabulous South Western Horns. Thanks goes to Ant Frend (Guitar and lead singer) and Ted Collins for organising the gig, with a little help from Geoff on the maracas
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victorio | 05/08/2009
Plot Summary: A anterior L.A. Medicament dealer (Thomas Jane) has moved to Houston to build a all-dancing animation for himself during the time that a we engineer. Everything falls alone when he is all at once visited prep along one of his anterior cohorts (Aaron Eckhart) who comes carrying heroin. Discovering the dimwit, the planner author flushes it disheartened the pump off or out. This sets up...
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