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1 000s quarantined in Bucharest (re: avian flu)

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AVIAN FLU UPDATE: Possible human-to-human transmission in Indonesia. When we talked to Bill Frist about this, his advice ("make sure your will is up to date") wasn't very comforting.

 

EBOLA FEARS AS BRIT DIES

 

Combo Vaccines Show Promise against Bird Flu

 

DDT use starts in July

 

Pill 'reverses' vegetative state

 

Seven Indonesian Bird Flu Cases Linked to Patients

 

The Truth About Steroids

 

Menstruation Is Fast Becoming Optional

The war on cancer, 30 years on

The Swedish Anthrax Case

I missed this when it was posted at Gates of Vienna last Thursday, but according to a translated article from Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten, someone in Jordan wants to buy Swedish anthrax. link: 23 comments  "So, let me get this straight. Sweden has something with the grandiose title “Total Defense Research Institute,” and someone wrote to the institute on fake letterhead that a 14-year-old could crank out in three minutes, and asked them to please send some anthrax to a PO Box in Jordan, thank you very much? "

Sourcery's Noteworthy Sci/Tech News Roundup--

I think that seeing some of the significant sci/tech developments over the past few months all in one listing gives one a better perspective on the accelerating rate of progress:

• New laser technique that strips hydrogen from silicon surfaces
• Clocking events at the nanoscale
• Electric field can align silver nanowires
• Nanotube bundles could be used as motors for nanodevices
• Scientist Revs Up The Power Of Microbial Fuel Cells In Unexpected Ways
• Researchers Look Beyond the Birth of the Universe
• Biological motors sort molecules one by one on a chip
• Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards?
• 12-qubits reached in quantum information quest
• One Big Bang, or were there many?
• Learning The Language Of DNA
• Engineers announce breakthrough in nanoscale semiconductor spin wave research
• Incredibly short light pulses capture our microscopic world
• IBM Researchers Demonstrate New Method for Rapid Molecule Sorting and Delivery
• Nano World: Roadmap for nano-imprinting
• Your Thoughts Are Your Password
• Water, nanoelectronics will mix to create ultra-dense memory storage
• MIT Chemist Discovers Secret Behind Nature's Medicines
• Our Universe: A Quantum Loop
• Nano machine switches between biological and silicon worlds
• Code for 'Unbreakable' Quantum Encryption Generated at Record Speed over Fiber
• Simulation Breakthrough: When Black Holes Collide
• Rice scientists attach motor to single-molecule car
• Big breakthrough for tiny particles from PhysOrg.com
• Nanopore Method Could Revolutionize Genome Sequencing
• Chaos=Order: Physicists make baffling discovery
• Device Only Atoms Across May Allow Infinitesimal But Powerful Computers
• Scientists demonstrate quantum nature of entanglement swapping
• New String-Theory Notion Redefines the Big Bang
• IBM Scientists Develop New Way To Explore And Control Atom-scale Magnetism
• Towards a new test of general relativity?
• Nanotechnologists demonstrate artificial muscles powered by highly energetic fuels
• Scientists develop better method for converting sounds to electronic signals
• Computer chips can get smaller, cheaper than first thought: IBM researchers
• Quantum telecloning: Captain Kirk's clone and the eavesdropper
• Einstein Equations
• Quantum computer solves problem, without running
• New material means 'x-ray specs' no longer required
• Physicist to Present New Exact Solution of Einstein's Gravitational Field Equation
• Towards Molecular Electronics: New Way of Making Molecular Transistors
• Quantum electronics: Two photons and chips
• IBM Strives For "Superhuman" Speech Tech
• Gravity theory dispenses with dark matter
• The Closest Look Ever At The Cell's Machines