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The article discusses the approval of planning consent from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) of Great Britain by a village in Cheshire, England. It informs that the decision has been taken even after the objections by local councils and local residents. Local residents believe that the plan will cause carbon dioxide emission and will discourage local waste recycling.

The article reports on the move of cities Porto Alegre in Brazil and Birmingham in England to initiate community projects to reuse computer equipment. It mentions that Alegre will refurbish 2500 reusable computers and redistribute them in the information technology (IT) projects while secure IT disposal in Birmingham has already turned around 1500 pieces of equipment. It further states that the move aims to prevent people to be at risks of exposure to toxic constituents.

The article aims to discuss the health and environmental risks associated with washing. It apprizes that soaps and shampoos are implicated in a variety of problems from allergic responses and endocrine disruption to immunosuppression. Personal care products and cleaning agents may contain myriad of irritants which can cause serious conditions such as atopic eczema and dermatitis. Among the contents of personal care products include sodium lauryl sulphate, lanolin, parabens, alcohol, triclosan and phthalates. Michael Cork, a consultant dermatologist at the Sheffield University in Sheffield, England, revealed that soap and detergent products when used break down the skin barrier allowing irritants and allergens to penetrate into the skin and set off an inflammatory response.

Focuses on research in England, led by Andrew Read et al, assessing the potential effects of various malaria vaccines. Use of an evolutionary theory model to investigate the potential effect of vaccines on public health; Suggestion that vaccines designed to reduce pathogen growth rate or toxicity might lead to more severe disease in unvaccinated individuals; Comment of Maryland researcher Anthony Stowers.

States that the entry point of a sperm when it fertilizes a mouse egg determines the plane along which the zygote first divides, according to researchers in England. Implications for the findings for the understanding of human embryology; Details of the sperm entry point (SEP) study made by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and Karolina Piotrowska of the Wellcome/CRC Institute in Cambridge.

Reports the research of Toru Kondo and Martin Raff at the University College in London, England concerning oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPC) as a source of central nervous system stem cells for regeneration. View that the stem-cell-like cells that develop from OPC can produce neurons; Significance of the study.

States that metal chelation might be important in prion diseases, according to John Collinge and colleagues of the Imperial College School of Medicine in London, England. Suggestion that drugs that influence copper metabolism should be investigated for their therapeutic potential in prion disease; Identification of four conformational isomers of human cellular prion protein; Oral exposure to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent.