38-year veteran of the department, had no heartbeat and was not breathing when he was cut free of the wreckage. That firefighter, who is expecting his first grandchild, is fighting for his life at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Neighbors said notices of filming were distributed throughout the neighborhood, notifying them that the next season of “Germany’s Next Top Model” would be shot at the home. Filming was scheduled to start Friday. The show featured supermodel Heidi Klum and 15 aspiring models, one of whom would be eliminated each week.New fluorescent protein from eel revolutionizes key clinical assay

Saving human lives while preserving an endangered species

June 19, 2013

Fluorescent unagi eel (credit: RIKEN)

Unagi, the sea-going Japanese freshwater eel, harbors a fluorescent protein that could serve as the basis for a revolutionary new clinical test for bilirubin, a critical indicator of human liver function, hemolysis, and jaundice, according to researchers from the RIKENBrain Science Institute.

Best known as a culinary delicacy in Japan, the freshwater eel Unagi (Anguilla japonica) and related species have seen a worldwide decrease in population, probably due to the effects of global warming, and Unagi is on the brink of extinction in Japan. Yet almost nothing is know about the biology of the eel.

Drs. Atsushi Miyawaki, Akiko Kumagai and their team cloned a gene from Unagi for