links for 2009-02-07

"A Framingham biotech company yesterday became the first to win federal approval to manufacture a drug by using genetically modified animals, an approach that could eventually be used to produce many drugs using farm animals."

"Today's dogs are descendants of ancient wolves. Now, it turns out, at least some of today's wolves inherited traits from ancient dogs.

"Gray wolves have that name because of their color, but in North America many of them have dark or black coats instead of the standard gray."