Urban and food-bred animals as sources of disease

Darkfrog submitted, created time 11 months 2 weeks (www.sciam.com)

According to this writeup in SciAm, the way we grow our food could be breeding new diseases. Most human diseases start out in other species. Even HIV is hypothesized to be an offshoot of SIV. Chickens, they say, are a lot more likely to make us sick than pigeons are (although they're also less likely to excrete on the hood of my car, so it balances out). Now, I would have thought that the move to modern chicken husbandry, where far fewer humans have contact to large numbers of birds, would have made chicken-to-human diseases LESS likely, but it seems it's just the opposite

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Heparanase in glomerular diseases

Reviver submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (highwire.stanford.edu)

"This review focuses on the role of heparanase in HS degradation in proteinuric diseases and the possibility/feasibility of heparanase inhibitors, such as heparin(oids), as treatment options."

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Definition of the zebrafish genome using flow cytometry and cytogenetic mapping

crackpot submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.biomedcentral.com)

"The chromosomal mapping of the 575 large-insert DNA clones allows for these clones to be integrated into existing zebrafish mapping data. An accurately annotated zebrafish reference genome serves as a valuable resource for investigating the molecular basis of human diseases using zebrafish mutant models."

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