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To help combat declining bee populations, Canadian researchers have been granted funding to study the genetic makeup of honeybees, to identify the markers of 12 economically-desired traits that the important insects have; then, they plan to use that knowledge to breed a genetically-superior bee, one designed to survive harsh Canadian winters.
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What will we do without our bees? It turns out that a new kind of honey has "amazing" results treating wounds and infections. (For Linda Moulton Howe’s way-early report on bee dieback, click here.)

When the bio-engineered product Surgihoney was tested on babies, new mothers, cancer patients and the elderly for over a year in Hampshire hospitals in the UK, the results were amazing: wounds and ulcers, including those infected with the superbug MRSA, healed within days, while the number of women who suffered infections after giving birth by caesarean section halved.
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