A WORTHY CAUSE INDEED
by David Ng

GRIZZLY BEARS TAKE NORTHERN VACATION
by Bethany Lindsay

SCIENCE GETS ITS FIRST SUPERMODEL
by David Secko

WHAT IS BIOINFORMATICS?
by Joanne Fox

PATENTS AND INNOVATIONS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY: FROM A SATELLITE LOOKING DOWN AT OUR USE OF PATENTS IN THE GREAT PLANETARY SCHEME OF THINGS
by Azar Mehrabadi

ELSEWHERE AND OVERHEARD
by Caitlin Dowling

“I really want to actually see the gun that's been supposedly aimed at my head for four years."

Jack Campbell, CEO of DVForge, who organized a contest to design a Mac Virus for his company’s computers, then cancelled it after realizing it might actually invite trouble.

“If some people decide that they want blind children and white rice, it's their choice. I'm offering the possibility of yellow rice and no blind children. But the decision what people want to eat is theirs."

Ingo Potrykus, the creator of controversial GM “golden rice”, in 2001. He launched the 2nd generation of the rice last week, which is suggested to contain more benefits than the last. (www.grain.com)

"We cannot stop the glaciers melting using foil."

Raimund Rosewald, head of a landscape protection foundation, about the Swiss authorities plan to wrap glaciers in foil during the summer to protect them. (www.exploreworldwide.com) (www.ananaova.com)

"It is like a saying in Polish," says Tryjanowski. "Artificial jewellery to the wife and real diamonds for the mistress."

Piotr Tryjanowski at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, on new finding showing that male birds catch bigger food ‘gifts’ for their prospective mistresses, than for their long-term partners. (www.newscientist.com)

"They have that slippery, slurpy sensation when you eat them that makes them very seductive."

Diane Brown, the Los Angeles-based author of The Seduction Cookbook . New findings from Barry University, Florida, suggest that oysters do in fact live up to their reputation and increase libido. (www.newscientist.com)