'Fat' gene identified by British scientists

[maryam9]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2946473.stm
(article is actually from 2003)

or

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1647517.ece
(more upto date, 2007)

Google it - its interesting...

[Khorsheed]

Hong Kong - A group of scientists has discovered two spots on the H5N1 bird flu virus that need to mutate for the virus to infect people more easily.

The virus has surface proteins that bind more easily to "receptors" lining respiratory tracts of birds, rather than receptors...