GENEVA - FOUR laboratories are at 'various stages' of working on a seed virus that is a precursor in a future vaccine against swine flu, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON - GOOGLE News is now on Twitter. The news aggregation site run by the Internet search giant announced the launch of the @googlenews Twitter feed in a post on the Google News blog on Tuesday.
PARIS - THREE NEW studies have identified DNA links to rare and common forms of autism, spotted among genes involved in forging connections between brain cells, scientists reported on Tuesday.
TROMSOE (Norway) - AN AREA of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, a scientist said on Tuesday.