Nanomedicine–revolutionizing the fight against cancer. Nanoscale technologies can transform how disease is understood, attacked and possibly prevented. [News Source]

Humane society challenges meat industry over new law. Advocates for the meat industry argue that a new state law barring animals unable to walk from entering the meat supply would unfairly open slaughterhouse employees to prosecution. [News Source]

The Fives: Wrongly convicted cows, bruising bulls and computer generated bovines make it big (Rapid City Journal) The Black Hills Stock Show is in town, opening with some horse events today out at the fairgrounds and springing to life Friday at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. In honor of what we at the Journal call the "Cowboy Rally," I dedicate today's column to the stock show and it's lifeblood, cows. [News Source]

The Fives: Wrongly convicted cows, bruising bulls and computer generated bovines make it big (Rapid City Journal) The Black Hills Stock Show is in town, opening with some horse events today out at the fairgrounds and springing to life Friday at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. In honor of what we at the Journal call the "Cowboy Rally," I dedicate today's column to the stock show and it's lifeblood, cows. [News Source]

Questions/Answers (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin) Questions and answers on Daily Bulletin stories from readers like you. Advocates for the meat industry argue that a new state law barring animals unable to walk from entering the meat supply would unfairly open slaughterhouse employees to prosecution. [News Source]

The almanac (UPI) By United Press International UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009. [News Source]

Sharpshooters prepare to cull park’s elk herd (The Bismarck Tribune) ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (AP) - Sharpshooters will start killing elk in the next few weeks to thin the herd in Rocky Mountain National Park. [News Source]