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LONDON - It was one of those heartwarming Lassie moments -- with a twist. A golden Labrador survived a 100-foot fall down a cliff after another dog -- a black Labrador -- ran to get help from the first dog's owner, coast guard officials said. The golden Labrador named Lacey became trapped after slipping down a rocky slope Monday near South Stack, in Holyhead, north Wales. The black Labrador, named Sheena, spotted her lying in a pool of water at the bottom of a gully and raced to fetch Lacey's owner, barking to gain attention and directing her to the...

Sen. Clinton: Lab has proved its worth, but we can't take anything for granted By STEVE JONES Staff writer Declaring that "no place is safe" in the upcoming round of military base closures and mission consolidations, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed to "do everything that we can do to make sure the merits" of Rome Lab "are seen." New York's junior senator spoke before about 300 community leaders Friday afternoon at the Radisson Hotel in Utica. Clinton put retention of the Air Force Research Laboratory at the top of her list of concerns during a speech to the Mohawk Valley...

Scientists have cultured small pieces of heart tissue which beat in the same way as the whole organ.The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team hope the work will lead to new ways of repairing heart damage. They grew the tissue from a few rat heart cells which were placed on an artificial scaffold, and then stimulated with an electric current. Researchers told Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: "Think of it as a patch for a broken heart." Myocardium, or heart muscle cells, cannot regenerate after injury, limiting the effectiveness of standard therapies. And heart cells are difficult to culture...

Ancient fungus 'revived' in lab The fungi (blue streak) were isolated from deep sea sediments Fungus from a deep-sea sediment core that is hundreds of thousands of years old can grow when placed in culture, scientists have discovered. Indian researchers say the fungi come from sediments that are between 180,000 and 430,000 years old. The finding adds to growing evidence for the impressive survival capabilities of many microorganisms. They are the oldest known fungi that will grow on a nutrient medium, the scientists say in Deep Sea Research I. The core was drilled from a depth of 5,904m in the...

A scientist at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension lab in Bemidji has been charged with assaulting a co-worker during an argument. Steven Fischer, 32, is accused of striking a female lab technician in the face during an argument last Monday. The complaint said he began to scream at Sarah Pfeiffer, 27, after accusing her of making malicious and insulting remarks about him. He was arrested later at his home. Pfeiffer was treated for a broken bone in her face.

The police crime laboratory in Houston, already reeling from a scandal that has led to retesting of evidence in 360 cases, now faces a much larger crisis that could involve many thousands of cases over 25 years. Six independent forensic scientists, in a joint written report to be filed in a Houston state court today, said that a crime laboratory official -- because he either lacked basic knowledge of blood typing or gave false testimony -- helped convict an innocent man of rape in 1987. The panel's report concluded that crime laboratory officials might have offered "similarly false and scientifically...

Two Chinese diplomats, away from their Los Angeles consulate improperly, recently sped their vehicle past a Los Alamos National Lab guard post near classified facilities in what United States officials think was ian intelligence mission, the Washington Times has learned.The diplomats, identified as Hua Yu and Bo Lai, were on an intelligence mission that is raising new worries of Chinese nuclear spying against the United States, according to US officials familiar with the incident.Pajarito Road is the site of two sensitive facilities. One is the Critical Assembly Facility known as Technical Area 18, the other is the Plutonium Reasearch facility,...

WINFIELD, W.Va. (AP) -- A Putnam County sheriff's deputy's house has become a crime scene. But the deputy's not to blame. Authorities are looking for a man they say constructed a methamphetamine lab at the deputy's West Virginia house while the officer was on vacation. The declined to identify the deputy. Chief Deputy John Dailey said Wednesday that officers learned that the deputy's relative staying in the house was producing the drug. The deputy, vacationing out of state, allowed authorities to search the house. "I guess the relative thought `What better place than this to have a meth lab?'" Dailey...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - The mission: to build a telescope mirror capable of detecting the first light of the universe that burst forth about 11 billion years ago, but is invisible to human eyes. And, while you're at it, make the mirror capable of soaring more than a million kilometres from the Earth, but sturdy enough that it bends less than the width of a human hair. Sound like science fiction? In a tucked-away workspace at Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA technicians are testing two prototypes for a mirror designed to do just that. The $824.8-million James E. Webb Space...

Proposed site not in danger for at least one year WASHINGTON - Plans to build an underground laboratory in the Homestake mine would not be dashed if the mine's owner, Barrick Gold Corp., decides to shut down the pumps that now are keeping the mine dry, Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., says. ''I think that too much has been made of whether there is pumping or not,'' Daschle said Thursday. Daschle said he would prefer if Barrick Gold did not shut down the pumps next week, as company officials have said they would. But flooding ''is a very slow process,'' Daschle...

<p>The conviction of an inmate who spent 10 years in prison has been overturned because an FBI scientific expert gave inaccurate testimony and withheld evidence &#8212; one of the first reversals arising from an investigation of the FBI lab.</p> <p>The FBI agent, Michael Malone, was transferred from the lab after the problems were discovered but continued to work for the bureau until his retirement in December 1999.</p>

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces in northern Iraq have found a suspected mobile biological weapons production laboratory that a top commander described on Tuesday as almost identical to another found nearby last month. Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, also raised the possibility that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's toppled government long ago destroyed its stocks of chemical and biological weapons. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon via a satellite link from Mosul, Petraeus was asked why U.S. forces had not yet located any of the Iraqi chemical or biological weapons that President Bush cited as...

Second Possible Iraqi Mobile Lab Found By MATT KELLEY .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. forces found another trailer in northern Iraq that appeared to be a mobile biological weapons laboratory, Pentagon officials said Monday. The trailer was similar to one seized last month that U.S. officials believe may have been a germ weapons workshop for the Iraqis, two officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. American troops found the second trailer around the northern city of Mosul Friday night or Saturday morning, one official said. U.S. experts are examining it in Mosul before sending it to the...

MOSUL, Iraq, May 9 — An American military unit found an abandoned trailer outside a missile testing site in northern Iraq today that they suspect was a mobile biological weapons laboratory. It was the second such find in recent weeks, and could potentially bolster the United States' claim that Saddam Hussein's government was producing biological and chemical weapons. Not long after the division arrived in Mosul in April, Major Handelman said, an engineer from the plant handed over what the major called "a treasure map" of clues to what was buried inside the complex. Mounds of earth, some that looked...

WorldNetDaily: Chem-weapons lab believed discovered This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32459 Wednesday, May 7, 2003 BIOLOGICAL WAR-FEARChem-weapons lab believed discoveredPentagon: Investigators haven't found 'another plausible use' for Iraqi trailer Posted: May 7, 20039:31 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com While officials are not yet calling it "the smoking gun," a mobile laboratory found in northern Iraq is believed to have produced biological agents, according to the Pentagon. "The experts have been through it," said Stephen Cambone, undersecretary for intelligence. "And they have not found another plausible use for it, based on...

<p>The Pentagon confirmed yesterday that a tractor-trailer found in northern Iraq is a mobile biological laboratory that could be used to make deadly germ weapons.</p> <p>The laboratory had been scrubbed clean, but U.S. officials believe it is the first concrete evidence that Iraq had a program to develop biological agents.</p>

A suspected mobile biological weapons lab has been recovered in northern Iraq, a development that senior U.S. officials said yesterday would lend support to Bush administration allegations of a banned weapons program by the government of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. A senior administration official said the Pentagon will announce today the results of a two-week investigation into a tractor-trailer truck that was stolen from a government depot in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul and later handed over to U.S. forces. He said equipment found on the truck included a fermenter bolted to the floor that could be used...

Troops Find Terror Training Camp in Iraq DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent4-16-2003 American troops raided the home of the mastermind of Saddam Hussein 's biological weapons lab on Wednesday and discovered a sprawling, recently abandoned terrorist training camp south of Baghdad as they dug for secrets from a dead regime. With major combat over, the Bush administration lowered the terrorist threat at home to yellow, down a notch from its wartime level of orange. "Terrorists and tyrants have now been put on notice, they can no longer feel safe hiding behind innocent lives," said President Bush . Inside Iraq ,...

Possible evidence of Iraqi deception has been uncovered with the discovery of 11 mobile laboratories capable of biological and chemical uses buried south of Baghdad, a U.S. general said, according to CNN. "Initial reports indicate that this is clearly a case of denial and deception on the part of the Iraqi government," Brig. Gen. Benjamin Freakley of the Army's 101st Airborne Division told CNN. "These chemical labs are present, and now we just have to determine what in fact they were really being used for." Brig. Gen. Benjamin Freakley The troops found no chemical or biological weapons with the containerized...

Buried lab tools found at chemical plant April 11, 2003 BY MATTHEW COX AND ROB CURTIS KARBALA, Iraq--Troops with the 101st Airborne Division unearthed 11 steel shipping containers filled with sophisticated lab equipment buried on the grounds of a chemical plant in Karbala. The equipment, discovered Wednesday at the Karbala Chemical plant by troops from the 326th Engineering Battalion, included computers and a spectrometer, a machine used to analyze chemical compounds. Also found was a 750-pound centrifugal pump that was made in Finland and originally shipped to a company in Jordan that makes plastic drinking cups. On Thursday, a team...