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Bush signs bill to prevent discrimination based on genetic testing
Posted by MikeS from CBC
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act was signed into law today by President Bush. With genetic tests available over the internet at a price many people can afford, there has been a strong lobby for a law that will help safeguard how that information is being used. The law will make it illegal for employers or insurance companies to use genetic information as a basis for discrimination. The law was first put forward 10 years ago but faced stiff opposition. Many people see this as the law finally catching up with the technology.
Exploding star caught in the act - BBC
Posted by robynoratocom from BBC News
Astronomers have been able to capture and record the first moments when a massive star blows itself apart.
MPs vote for human-animal hybrid embryos - Telegraph
Posted by MikeS from Telegraph.c
In a debate that covered the range from pure science to bioethics to science fiction images, British legislators voted earlier this week to allow stem cell researchers to work with animal-human embryos. This means that researchers will be able to inject human DNA into empty cow or rabbit eggs. Depending on where people stand on the bioethics continuum this has been seen as either a huge leap ahead of research in other countries or a leap into uncharted and shadowy medical territory.
Book Review: The Woman Who Can't Forget
Posted by Jeff from Newsweek
With eight months left in 2008, it might be premature to choose the weirdest book of the year, but "The Woman Who Can't Forget," the memoir of a 42-year-old California woman named Jill Price, will be hard to beat. It poses a thought-provoking question-what would it be like to recall almost every day of your life since childhood?
New idea in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Can't they just make me into a green battery? ... Getting the public to accept a process that strikes some as ghastly may be the biggest challenge. Psychopaths and dictators have used acid or lye to torture or erase their victims, and legislation to make alkaline hydrolysis available to the public in New York state was branded "Hannibal Lecter's bill" in a play on the sponsor's name - Sen. Kemp Hannon - and the movie character's sadism.
Conservatives Happier Than Liberals
Posted by theangryindian from Live Science
Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.
Bizarre DNA of Platypus tells a story about us
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
There are genes for egg laying, evidence of the animal\\\\\\\'s reptilian roots. Genes for making milk, which the platypus does in mammalian style despite not having nipples. Genes for making snake venom, which the animal stores in its legs. And there are five times more sex-determining chromosomes than scientists know what to do with.
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