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Biotech / Medical : T/FIF, a New Plateau -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nigel bates who wrote (1458)	10/4/2002 8:24:09 PM
From: tom pope	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2243

Is this possibly on topic for biotech investors? Toad vomiting. "Anurans have strong emetic reflexes. Toxic material in the stomach provokes vomiting, and when anurans vomit, they not only regurgitate stomach contents but also the stomach itself! Because the anuran stomach is asymmetric -- with a shorter mesentery on the right than the left side -- the stomach is tethered to that side. Consequently, the prolapsed stomach always hangs out the right side of the mouth." (Naitoh, T., and R. Wassersug. 1996. Why are toads right-handed? Nature 380: 30-31)

To: nigel bates who wrote (1458)	10/5/2002 10:40:11 AM
From: Biotech Jim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2243

I thought this Ig Nobel Prize could be of interest to the more "unusually" oriented folks that might read this thread: BIOLOGY Norma E. Bubier, Charles G.M. Paxton, Phil Bowers, and D. Charles Deeming of the United Kingdom, for their report "Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches Towards Humans Under Farming Conditions in Britain." [REFERENCE: "Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches (Struthio camelus) Towards Humans Under Farming Conditions in Britain," Norma E. Bubier, Charles G.M. Paxton, P. Bowers, D.C. Deeming, British Poultry Science, vol. 39, no. 4, September 1998, pp. 477-481.]