Phoenix, AZ, USA. Details emerging from Arizona’s new budget — approved by state lawmakers late Thursday (March 11) — are staggering. More than 310,000 adults and 47,000 low-income children will lose health insurance under the plan, which reduces spending by about $1.1 billion, eliminates full-day kindergarten and, according to The Arizona Republic, slashes funds “that were one of the last best hopes for the state parks system to stay afloat.”

Arizona was listed just behind Cal

Washington, DC, USA. The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has launched an online tool to help educators teach the next generation of nurses and physician assistants about genetics and genomics. NHGRI is a part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Genetics/Genomics Competency Center (G2C2), developed by the University of Virginia through a NHGRI contract, is a free collection of materials on genetics and genomics designed for educators who train nurses and

San Diego, CA, USA. For all those people dismayed by the scenes on television of looting in disaster-struck zones, whether the location be be Chili, Haiti, or elsewhere, take heart: Good acts — genuine acts of kindness, generosity and cooperation — spread just as easily as bad. And it takes only a handful of individuals to really make a difference.

In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from the University of California, San D

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Scientists have identified a fundamental difference between female and male cells that control the development of sexual traits. The scientists have named the phenomenon cell autonomous sex identity (CASI).

Findings from the study, performed by the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh, appear in the journal Nature.

It was previously thought that sex chromosomes in birds control whether a testis or ovary forms, with sexual traits then being d

Washington, DC, USA. While running for governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell promised he would raise money by handing over the state-run liquor stores to private interests. Once elected, the pledge made its way into his state of the state address.

“As I travelled this great commonwealth over the last year, I didn’t run into anybody who thought selling Jack Daniels whiskey or Grey Goose vodka was a core function of government,” he told lawmakers on January 18th.

The basic idea had tr