God, the Recession, and First Time Buyers (Politics.ie) This is a discussion on God, the Recession, and First Time Buyers within the Chat forums, part of the General Discussion category on Politics.ie . (taken from www.rant.ie ) It has been brought to my attention by a semi-apologetic mugger that some manner of recession ... [News Source]

2 Possible Cases Of Mad Cow In Roane Co. (WSMV Nashville) State health officials said there's no reason to worry about two possible cases of a rare brain disease in Roane County. [News Source]

Systems Biology Provides First Global Analysis of Prion Disease in a Mouse Model (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) SEATTLE----Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle and the McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls, Montana, published today in Molecular Systems Biology a ground-breaking study which modeled the progression of degenerative brain diseases, one of which is "mad cow disease," that are caused by misfolded proteins called "prions". [News Source]

Finding Early Signs of Mad-Cow Disease (Technology Review) A comprehensive study of gene-expression changes could lead to new diagnostic tests. [News Source]

Mad Cow Theatre’s ‘Amadeus’ combines comic and tragic (Orlando Sentinel) Here's my review of Amadeus at Mad Cow Theatre. The review is running in Thursday's Sentinel . Applause, please, for the comic actor — the one so adept at making his audiences laugh that they don’t want to see him do anything else. [News Source]

The Almanac — weekly (Moldova.org) Today is Monday, March 30, the 89th day of 2009 with 276 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Mars and Neptune. The evening star is Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include Spanish painter Francisco Jose de Goya in 1746; English author Anna Sewell (Black Beauty) in 1820; English social reformer Charles Booth in 1840; ... [News Source]

Ethics row over blood made from aborted foetuses (Daily Mail) Scientists are to produce synthetic blood from discarded IVF embryos and aborted foetuses. The research could deliver synthetic blood transfusions within three years. [News Source]

One CJD case confirmed; 1 investigated (Knoxville News Sentinel) The Tennessee Department of Health is investigating a confirmed case in Roane County of an always fatal, very rare brain disease and a second suspected case. [News Source]