

Part 1 of the 4 part Klay World Mini-Series! Klay World is doing dandy until a mysterious klayman decides to whipe out Klay World one by one.
| Rodent droppings and raw octopus (KVOA Tucson) Rodent droppings, raw octopus, and a messy kitchen, just a few of the violations found at a local restaurant this week. Bunkuku Japanese Restaurant on E. Broadway Blvd. received 4 Critical and 10 Non-Critical |
| Beavers return to the wild in Scotland (Scotland Today) Beavers were hunted to extinction in the 16th century, but the animal will be returning to Scotland very soon. Four families of the rodent have now arrived in the UK ahead of a re-introduction programme at an Argyll nature reserve. |
| Company Fined For Improperly Selling Pesticides (KOLR - KSFX Ozarks) (Springfield) A lawn-and-garden business in Springfield will pay $200,000 in fines for improperly marketing chemical insect and rodent killers. |
| Rats! Hamelin needs a modern-day Pied Piper (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The German town made famous as the setting for the tale which saw the Pied Piper lure away a plague of rats has a real-life modern problem with the rodents. |
| TaconicArtemis Announces Publication In PNAS: Inducible Gene Silencing In Transgenic Rats Via RNAi (Medical News Today) TaconicArtemis GmbH, a subsidiary of Taconic today announced the publication of a scientific breakthrough achieved in a collaboration with the Universities Goettingen and Wuerzburg (Germany). For the first time it is now possible to inactivate disease-related genes in an inducible and reversible fashion in transgenic rats as rodent model organisms. |
