Newark-based iBio teams with GE Newark biopharmaceutical startup iBio has partnered with GE Healthcare, a UK-based General Electric business, to market its plant-based technology for producing vaccines or other protein-based medicines. [News Source]

Bollard’s book tells deposit guarantee story Reserve Bank Governor Dr Allan Bollard talks about his new book. [News Source]

NEWS SCAN: Pandemic planning and law, vaccine and narcolepsy, H5N1 spread, plant-based H5N1 vaccine, egg outbreak Study finds dissonance with EU nations' pandemic plans, public health laws Researchers investigating pandemic preparedness planning and public health laws in 32 European nations found "significant differences in legislation and in the legitimacy of strategic plans." [News Source]

Laurence Hughes: Test Your Knowledge of Literature’s Greatest Bed Bug Infestations In this short tale of mystery and imagination, a man is bitten by a strange gold bug, which leads to the discovery of a cryptograph revealing the location of Captain Kidd's treasure. [News Source]

Flu pandemic revealed flaws Just three weeks after World Health Organisation chief Margaret Chan assured the world that the type A (H1N1) flu pandemic was over and had not been as severe as first feared, Thai virologists warned of a renewed threat. In interviews this week, they expressed fears the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain could soon re-emerge. [News Source]

Maria Bartiromo looks back at the crash of 2008 CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo gives an insider's perspective on the extraordinary events that led to the largest threat to posterity since the Great Depression. Maria Bartiromo - Great Depression - Health - CNBC - History [News Source]

Afla-Guard also protects corn crops Afla-Guard(R), a biological control used to thwart the growth of fungi on peanuts, can be used on corn as well, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists who helped develop it. [News Source]

7 Tips to Staying Healthy at PAX A handful of quick tips to help avoid getting sick at this year's Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, Washington, which runs from September 3 to September 5. [News Source]

Rare hibiscus color is achieved after four years Dr. Dariusz Malinowski is seeing blue, and he is very excited. [News Source]

British booze consumption in biggest fall for 60 years Notorious abroad for their binge-drinking, Britons bucked the trend last year with alchohol consumption in the country showing its biggest fall since 1948, the industry said Friday. [News Source]

GOES-13 satellite sees Hurricane Earl’s clouds covering the US Northeast Hurricane Earl lashed the North Carolina coast last night and this morning, September 3, and is now headed for Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This morning's image from the GOES-13 satellite saw Hurricane Earl's clouds covering most of the northeastern U.S. [News Source]

Satellite Data Reveals Why Migrating Birds Have a Small Window to Spread Bird Flu In 2005 an outbreak of the H5N1 ‘bird flu’ virus in South East Asia led to widespread fear with predictions that the intercontinental migration of wild birds could lead to global pandemic. Such fears were never realised, and now new research reveals why the global spread of bird flu by direct migration of wildfowl is unlikely, while also providing a new framework for quantifying the risk of ... [News Source]