Join the OCC Folding@home Team (Overclockers Club) For the last several years Stanford University has been studying the mechanics of protein folding - or how proteins in the human body assemble themselves. As part of this research scientists are also looking at what happens when that process doesn't happen the way it's supposed to. When proteins do not fold correctly, there can be serious side effects which include many well known diseases such ... [News Source]

Not All Vets Treat Pets — For Some It’s About Homeland Security (Lexington Clipper-Herald) (ARA) - Anthrax. Biological attacks. Exotic diseases. These and many other issues are making headlines as the world we live in seems to get smaller and smaller. Yet there is a dedicated group of scientists who are confronting these, and many other, threats each and every day. [News Source]

Rare brain disease poses no health risk to public, says public health dept. (Charles City Press) The recent death of a Charles City man from a rare disease poses no health risk to the public, according to Floyd County Public Health Administrator Gail Arjes. [News Source]

GeneThera in Talks With Nasdaq Company About Merger (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) GeneThera, Inc. is in discussions with a public company traded on the Nasdaq for a potential merger or acquisition. [News Source]

Life comes full circle for police chaplain (Hamilton Spectator) Susan Clairmont It is as though God wants him to wear a police uniform. First, it was the garb of a British Guiana police officer. Now, 55 years later, it is a crisp new Hamilton Police Service uniform. The word “Chaplain” stitched into the dark cloth. [News Source]

Rockland AM Report (The Journal News) 5:49 p.m., Haverstraw, water or steam leak. 6:18 p.m., Monsey, overheated motor. [News Source]