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Longer Tests on Lab Animals Urged for Potential Carcinogens

WASHINGTON— Current government regulatory agencies typically require that industrial chemicals, including food additives and environmental pollutants, be administered to lab rodents beginning shortly after birth and ending after two years to test whether those substances might cause cancer in humans. But a new peer-reviewed paper published in Environmental Health Perspectives argues that those tests sometimes understate human risks and should start in utero and continue as long as three years, the approximate life spans of rats and mice. The longer, more sensitive tests would provide a more reliable picture of the risk that various chemicals pose to humans throughout their lifespan, the authors say. The authors charged that practically all rodent tests submitted to regulatory agencies are insufficiently sensitive.

Banks preferring longer-dated papers

Bangalore, Nov. 17 Faced with burgeoning deposits, banks are beginning to stretch their investment portfolio to longer-dated securities.

BOJ keeps ample longer-term funding, repo rates ease

TOKYO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan continued to supply ample longer-term funds on Monday, aiming to ease tightness in the bond repurchase market, where lenders remain cautious about counterparty risks.

BOJ keeps ample longer-term funding, repo rates ease

TOKYO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan continued to supply ample longer-term funds on Monday, aiming to ease tightness in the bond repurchase market, where lenders remain cautious about counterparty risks.

Flash! Firefox No Longer an Automatic Defense Against Browser Drive-Bys

Until recently, the burden of interoperability has rested on the shoulders of the IT professional. With the collaboration between Microsoft and Novell, however, this is no longer the case. Join us on Oct. 29 as experts from Microsoft and Novell share insights into how mixed-source virtualization can help improve operational efficiency, and what work is being done to help manage these environments.

Prisoners caught with mobiles to face longer jail terms

Prisoners caught with mobile phones will face longer jail terms to stop criminal acitivities being organised from behind bars.

5 Tips to Make Your Cell Phone Battery Last Longer

Batteries can have a much longer life, if people follow just a few simple tips on how to save their power

Google Is No Longer Silicon Valley's Legal Defender

When Google settled the lawsuit over its book scanning project, we noted with disappointment how this appeared to signal the end of Google's earlier position of fighting certain legal battles on principle. For a few years, Google's legal team had been taking up a variety of lawsuits purely on principle. In many cases it would have been cheaper and easier to settle, but Google had made clear that it saw those lawsuits as a way to define better law -- and that helped all of Silicon Valley (and, in many cases, the overall economy). Yet, in settling this lawsuit, it became clear that Google was no longer fighting lawsuits on principle, and, in fact would consider settling cases knowing that it actually made life more difficult for the rest of Silicon Valley.

TOPWRAP 1-Japan warns of longer slump; Citigroup slashes jobs

TOKYO, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Japan's recession could last even longer than feared, the country's economy minister warned on Tuesday, echoing comments from U.S. officials that the pain from the global financial crisis was far from over.

TOPWRAP 1-Japan warns of longer slump; Citigroup slashes jobs

TOKYO, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Japan's recession could last even longer than feared, the country's economy minister warned on Tuesday, echoing comments from U.S. officials that the pain from the global financial crisis was far from over.

Qld keeps Andy Bichel on ice for longer

Queensland will keep veteran paceman Andy Bichel on ice a little longer following recurring shoulder soreness.

Worms burn fat for a longer life

A fat-burning enzyme in C. elegans increases its activity after the worm's reproductive stem cells stop proliferating, and the result is a longer lifespan, said Meng Wang of Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues.

Motorola's Jha Confirms Focus On Android, Will No Longer Support Symbian UIQ or Java-Linux Platform

Motorola’s Jha Confirms Focus On Android, Will No Longer Support Symbian UIQ or Java-Linux Platform

Deutsche Bank Cuts Art Fair Funding

FRANKFURT—Deutsche Bank has announced that it will no longer be the main sponsor for Art Cologne and will no longer support the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Artforum reports via the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

'Real' Playboy cover isn't reality

Reality TV fans might have to wait a little longer to see Kim Zolciak in the nude. Make that a lot longer.

Playboy cover for 'Housewives' star isn't a reality

Reality TV fans might have to wait a little longer to see Kim Zolciak in the nude. Make that a lot longer.

Playboy cover for "Housewives" star isn't a reality

Reality TV fans might have to wait a little longer to see Kim Zolciak in the nude. Make that a lot longer.

Worms Hold the Key to Slowing the Aging Process

Roundworms offered scientists a surprise, when they decided to live longer after they had been subjected to an anticonvulsant ethosuximide, which is a drug used to treat people suffering from seizure disorders. Scientists behind the experiment subjected the creatures to many chemicals, in an attempt to expand on previous results, which showed that anticonvulsants made them live longer. Finally, they were able to discover exactly how the drug worked on the worms.

Video games, art, and interactivity

"The reason the world is so fucked up is we're undergoing evolution. And the reason our institutions, our traditional religions, are all crumbling, is because... they're no longer relevant. They're no longer relevant. So it's time for us to create a new philosophy and perhaps even a new religion, you see. And that's OK 'cause that's our right, 'cause we are free children of God with minds who can imagine anything, and that's kind of our role."

The Gene Is Having an Identity Crisis

gollum123 writes "New large-scale studies of DNA are causing a rethinking of the very nature of genes. A typical gene is no longer conceived of as a single chunk of DNA encoding a single protein. It turns out, for example, that several different proteins may be produced from a single stretch of DNA. Most of the molecules produced from DNA may not even be proteins, but rather RNA. The familiar double helix of DNA no longer has a monopoly on heredity: other molecules clinging to DNA can produce striking differences between two organisms with the same genes — and those molecules can be inherited along with DNA. Scientists have been working on exploring the 98% of the genome not identified as the protein-coding region. One of the biggest of these projects is an effort called the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, or 'Encode.

Updated: Moto's Jha Confirms Focus On Android, Ditching Symbian, Java-Linux OS; 3,000 Jobs To Go

Motorola’s co-CEO Sanjay Jha confirmed In Motorola’s Q3 conference call this morning that it was streamlining its handset business to focus on three operating systems going forward—Google’s Android, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, and it’s own P2K platform for low-cost handsets. The call followed the release of a disappointing Q3 earnings (see our story here). The company reported a net loss of $397 million, or 18 cents a share compared with a profit of $40 million or 3 cents a share in the same quarter a year ago. Sales dropped 15 percent to $7.48 billion from $8.81 billion a year ago. It also confirmed that the spin-off of the troubled handset business would take longer, and was no longer targeted for Q3 2009.

Updated: Motos Jha Confirms Focus On Android, Ditching Symbian, Java-Linux OS; 3,000 Jobs To Go

Motorola’s co-CEO Sanjay Jha confirmed In Motorola’s Q3 conference call this morning that it was streamlining its handset business to focus on three operating systems going forward—Google’s Android, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, and it’s own P2K platform for low-cost handsets. The call followed the release of a disappointing Q3 earnings (see our story here). The company reported a net loss of $397 million, or 18 cents a share compared with a profit of $40 million or 3 cents a share in the same quarter a year ago. Sales dropped 15 percent to $7.48 billion from $8.81 billion a year ago. It also confirmed that the spin-off of the troubled handset business would take longer, and was no longer targeted for Q3 2009.

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