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Bees Join The Genome Club Bees have become the latest organism, and the third insect after fruit flies and mosquitos, to have their genetic blueprint decoded. A team of scientists in... 18th Jan 2004	World’s Longest Snake A group of villagers in indonesia are claiming to have caught the world’s biggest snake – a python nearly 50 feet in length, weighing over 70 st... 18th Jan 2004
Uk About To Approve First Commercial Gm Crops Love them or hate them, GM crops look set to stay and farmers could be planting the UK’s first commercial GM crops this spring. That’s if the go... 18th Jan 2004	Sharks With a Taste For Giant Squid Researchers announced recently that some giant sharks are partial to snacking on colossal squid, mysterious deep-sea beasts that we know hardly anything abo... 18th Jan 2004
Fish Communicate By Farting Dr. Doolittle may have been able to talk with the animals, but could he fart with them too ? That's what he may have had to do if he wanted to chat with a h... 18th Jan 2004	Novel Source of Antimicrobials Researchers looking for new ways to deal with antibiotic resistant infections may have discovered a bacterial achilles heel. Analysing the genetic code of o... 11th Jan 2004
Piranah Attacks Are on The Increase in Brazil A recent spate of piranha attacks on swimmers in South East Brazil could be caused by rivers being dammed. In one town called Santa Cruz of Conceircao, ther... 11th Jan 2004	Low Tar Cigarettes As Bad As Medium Tar New research from the US has shown that the risk of lung cancer is no different in people who smoke medium, low or even very low tar cigarettes. The researc... 11th Jan 2004
Rocket Science To Help The Elderly No, I'm not proposing jet packs to get Granny up the stairs, but researcers at Manchester Metropolitan Universtiy think that methods invented to help astron... 11th Jan 2004	Garlic Smart-bomb For Targeted Cancer Therapy Chemicals found in Garlic could be used as a new Smart Bomb to treat cancer. Allicin is a toxic chemical which is not present in whole cloves of garlic, but... 11th Jan 2004

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