<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/88b57ec0-d32e-4f46-af61-a0dca5fddebc/9C988350-90F9-4404-9EC4-9B619662A27A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/colony-collapse-disorder/" href="http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/colony-collapse-disorder/" style="font-size: 11px;">microbiologybytes.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/colony-collapse-disorder/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link to Colony Collapse Disorder" rel="bookmark" href="http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/colony-collapse-disorder/">Colony Collapse Disorder</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/colony-collapse-disorder/"><DIV class="entry"> <DIV class="snap_preview"><P><A target="_blank" href="http://flickr.com/photos/124330160/23764566/"><IMG width="240" vspace="7" hspace="7" height="170" border="0" align="right" alt="Bee" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/18/23764566_65bc1779ce_m.jpg" /></A>Entomologists are puzzled over a strange phenomenon called <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder">Colony Collapse Disorder</A>, where bees in 25 U.S. states have left their hives, never to return. You may not be bothered about bees, but pollination of U.S. crops and honey stocks worth $14.6 billion are at risk, and the syndrome is spreading abroad to Canada and possibly Europe. A variety of wacky possible causes have been suggested, from <A target="_blank" href="http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece">cellular phones</A> to mysterious unidentified viruses. <A target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-bees26apr26,0,896792.story">Now it has been suggested that the unicellular microsporidian fungus <EM>Nosema ceranae</EM> may be involved</A>, although it seems unlikely that this is the only cause. It is now looking less likely that this is a “disease” with a specific causative agent which satisfies <A target="_blank" href="http://www.microbiologybytes.com/introduction/b2.html">Koch’s postulates</A> - another sign of environmental stress perhaps?</p> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/polio-hiv-genomes-and-prions/" href="http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/polio-hiv-genomes-and-prions/" style="font-size: 11px;">microbiologybytes.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/polio-hiv-genomes-and-prions/"><STRONG>Use of thermolysin in the diagnosis of prion diseases</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/polio-hiv-genomes-and-prions/"><STRONG>A 25 nm virion may be the cause of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies?</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/polio-hiv-genomes-and-prions/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link to Polio, HIV, Genomes and Prions" rel="bookmark" href="http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/polio-hiv-genomes-and-prions/">Polio, HIV, Genomes and Prions</A></H2></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9C988350-90F9-4404-9EC4-9B619662A27A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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