Fluorescent fish are being used by Taiwanese researchers instead of mice to show the impact of experimental drugs on cancerous tumors.

Wu Jen-leih of Taipei's Academia Sinica headed a team that took a gene that makes jelly fish fluoresce and transplanted it into the livers of zebra fish that were then later implanted with cancer cells for testing, The Associated Press reports.

In an unprecedented display of public animosity at the Food and Drug Administration, one of its top employees resigns Wednesday to protest the agency's refusal to allow over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception.

Assistant Commissioner Susan Wood charges that FDA's leader overruled his own scientists' determination that the morning-after pill could safely be sold without a prescription, and stunned his employees last week by postponing indefinitely a decision on whether to let that happen, The Associated Press reports.

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The new vaccine, made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc, will attempt to fill the void left after rival Chiron Corp. lost its license and could not deliver half the anticipated U.S. supply during the 2004-2005 flu season.

Chiron Corp. says Wednesday it expects to provide a vaccine for the 2005-2006 flu season after a recent favorable inspection of the plant by U.S. regulators.

The company postponed U.S. sales of its flu vaccine last year due to contamination problems at its plant in England, which led to the withdrawal of its manufacturing license for Fluvirin last October.

Reports are streaming in about medics and recovery teams discovering bodies throughout coastal towns of Mississippi.

Danger still threatens many rescuers due to unsafe roads and debris.