Scientists at the University of Maryland have created a new vaccine that can protect birds, animals and humans from the deadly bird flu virus.

The team led by Prof. Daniel Perez also created a technique to deliver the vaccine based on the H9N1, a weaker strain of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, in bird eggs so that the disease will not spread if the bird flies to other areas

Researchers hope they are nearer to a vaccine that provides better protection from tuberculosis.

TB is a highly infectious, potentially fatal disease. It strikes developing nations hardest, but travelers can bring it home with them, or carry it to developed nations. With one in three people infected worldwide, nearly 8 million new cases of TB develop each year and 2 million die

A U.S. district court issued Tuesday a temporary injunction stopping a New Zealander and a Texan from sending billions of spam e-mails to sell their bogus male-enhancement and other prescription drugs.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois also froze the assets of four companies owned by Lance Atkinson, a New Zealand citizen living in Australia, and Jody Smith of Texas, in response to the petition of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

A study by Wellesley College researchers said intake of alcohol may result in a decrease to an individual's total brain volume.

According to the October issue of the Archives of Neurology, brain mass decreases with age at a rate of almost two percent every ten years. However, as brain volume decreases, white matter lesions increase. A decreasing brain volume and increasing white matter lesions also happen in cases of dementia and problems with thinking, learning and memory

An American company is partnering with a Danish company to develop and market new soy proteins with better flavor, solubility and nutritional benefits.

St. Louis-based Solae develops is partnering with Copenhagen, Denmark-based Novozymes in the venture