Meat is murder, as the undead strike back "Jennifer's Body" is pretty straightforward in its intentions: mix this season's hot teen genre, the vampire flick, with that old standby the high-school movie. Cast smoking hot Megan Fox as the bitchy bodacious queen bee, Amanda Seyfried as her nerdy best friend, and throw in some snarky teen-speak by screenwriter Diablo Cody ("Juno"). There's your movie, no? Well, maybe. Let's start with Fox ... [News Source]

What Is Infection? What Cause Infections? A human with an infection has another organism inside them which gets its sustenance (nourishment) from that person, it colonizes that person and reproduces inside them. The human with that organism (germ) inside is called the host, while the germ or pathogen is referred to as a parasitic organism. Another name for an organism that causes infection is an infectious agent. It is only an infection ... [News Source]

Mayor not allowed to give blood Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins wanted to give blood, she just wasn’t allowed. There wasn’t anything wrong with her, but because she travelled to Mexico last year she was informed she would not be able to give blood for a year. [News Source]

2010 Reith Lecture Series: Scientific Horizons Part One: Scientific Citizens. In the first of this year's Reith Lectures, Lord Martin Rees explores the challenges facing science in the 21st century. We are increasingly turning to government and the media to explain the risks we face. But in the wake of public confusion over issues like climate change, the swine 'flu vaccine and, more recently, Iceland's volcanic ash cloud, Martin Rees calls ... [News Source]

US ‘exceptionally frustrated’ over ongoing Japanese beef ban Washington - The United States is "exceptionally frustrated" over Japan's ongoing limits on importing US beef into its domestic markets, Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Wednesday. [News Source]

Tasty transgenics Check out ongoing projects that are tinkering with edible animals [News Source]

Red Cross, I’ll no longer bleed for you Last fall I wrote about how great it felt to donate blood after not having done so for 17 years. Afterward, I intended to make it a habit. Maybe not once every 56 days, which is the minimum waiting period, but as often as I could. Now, though, I... [News Source]

Food activist urges support for Canadian produce. It’s been the better part of a decade since Americans closed their borders to Canadian beef, slicing a big chunk off this nation’s export market and devastating domestic farmers. [News Source]

Vitro Diagnostics, Mokshagundam Biotechnologies enter contract to develop stem cell-derived food Vitro Diagnostics, Inc., dba Vitro Biopharma, announced that it has entered into a contract with Mokshagundam Biotechnologies, a private research organization established to develop alternative meat sources, to develop cell culture medium for use in exploration of alternative food sources derived from stem cells. [News Source]

Infectious Prions Can Arise Spontaneously In Normal Brain Tissue In a startling new study that involved research on both sides of the Atlantic, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute in Florida and the University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology in England have shown for the first time that abnormal prions, bits of infectious protein devoid of DNA or RNA that can cause fatal neurodegenerative disease, can suddenly erupt from healthy brain ... [News Source]