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Today's Science News: FDA OKs 1st drug from genetically altered animals Stem cell, cloning expert Jerry Yang dead at 49 Space shuttle launch delayed again for valve tests Injured bears rescued from bile farms in China Study: How Money Can Buy Happiness One dead as US authorities rescue more than 100 from ice floe NASA Discovery mission faces new delay Dung it! Who threw away my 7-year collection? Bus-sized boa slithers into record books OPEC to cut output in March: Iraqi oil minister Genome Study Points to New Culprit for Schizophrenia FDA OKs 1st drug from genetically altered animals Fri, 6 Feb 2009 02:12 pm PST AP - The Food and Drug Administration made history Friday as it approved the first drug made with materials from genetically engineered animals, clearing the way for a new class of medical therapies. Full Story Top Stem cell, cloning expert Jerry Yang dead at 49 Fri, 6 Feb 2009 04:17 pm PST AP - Xiangzhong "Jerry" Yang, a stem cell scientist who successfully cloned the first farm animal in the United States, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 49. Full Story Top Space shuttle launch delayed again for valve tests Fri, 6 Feb 2009 03:05 pm PST AP - NASA has delayed the next space shuttle launch again. Now the space shuttle Discovery won't lift off before Feb. 22. NASA says it needs the extra time to finish testing hydrogen gas fuel valves. A small part of one valve broke during the launch of the last shuttle flight in November. Full Story Top Injured bears rescued from bile farms in China Sat, 7 Feb 2009 03:06 am PST AP - A dozen Asiatic black bears, malnourished and diseased from years spent on abusive bile-harvesting farms in southwest China, were recovering Saturday after being handed over to an animal charity group. Full Story Top Study: How Money Can Buy Happiness Sat, 7 Feb 2009 01:50 pm PST LiveScience.com - You've heard many times that money can't buy happiness. That probably never stopped you from shopping. But a new study suggests you might want to spend more on doing things and less on stuff. Full Story Top One dead as US authorities rescue more than 100 from ice floe Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:41 pm PST AFP - One man has died and more than 100 others had to be rescued Saturday when their fishing outings turned perilous as an ice floe drifted into Lake Erie, the US coast guard said. Full Story Top NASA Discovery mission faces new delay Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:22 pm PST AFP - The space shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been again delayed until no sooner than February 22 for testing of three flow control valves, NASA said Saturday. Full Story Top Dung it! Who threw away my 7-year collection? Fri, 6 Feb 2009 05:42 pm PST AP - A British university has apologized to a Ph.D. student for throwing away his treasured, seven-year collection of lizard dung. Daniel Bennett has told Times Higher Education magazine that he had collected the dung in the Philippines while studying the rare butaan lizard, a relative of the Komodo dragon. The material was to be studied as part of his doctoral research. Full Story Top Bus-sized boa slithers into record books Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:31 am PST AFP - Stunned scientists have found the fossilized remains of the world's greatest snake -- a record-busting serpent that was as long as a bus and snacked on crocodiles. Full Story Top OPEC to cut output in March: Iraqi oil minister Sat, 7 Feb 2009 11:58 am PST AFP - Iraq's oil minister on Saturday predicted that OPEC will cut production in March, and said that the price of a barrel of crude should not be less than 70 dollars, a senior official told AFP. Full Story Top Genome Study Points to New Culprit for Schizophrenia Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:48 pm PST HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Large, rare structural changes in DNA called copy number variants may play a role in schizophrenia, according to U.S. researchers, who said their findings support a sharp change of direction in genetics research on schizophrenia. Full Story Top

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