Flat-faced or brachycephalic dogs breeds such as English and French bulldogs may be likely to display "helpless" traits by looking at humans more often than a longer-muzzled dog breed during a food retrieval task, suggests ...
Sep 24, 2023
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COVID-19 has put a spotlight on Canada's pandemic preparedness, and led some experts and leaders to call for a new public agency that would be in charge of domestic vaccine production to increase self-sufficiency.
Jul 28, 2022
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They make summer afternoons far more bearable, but new research has revealed water misting systems are a breeding ground for potentially lethal disease causing bacteria—and there are no health regulations in place to protect ...
Nov 30, 2021
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Inherited retinal dystrophy is a common cause of blindness, with as many as two million people suffering from the disorder globally. No effective treatment is available for retinal dystrophies. Gene therapy is expected to ...
Mar 2, 2021
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Some countries, such as Tanzania and Madagascar, have issued statements saying they do not have plans to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19. Moina Spooner, an editor with The Conversation Africa, asked pathology ...
Feb 15, 2021
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Of Honduras' 32 public hospitals, 26 are overflowing with patients due to what health authorities are calling the worst dengue fever epidemic in the past half century.
Jul 26, 2019
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A bone cancer known as osteosarcoma is genetically similar in dogs and human children, according to the results of a study published today by Tufts University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate ...
Jul 19, 2019
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New research at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center identifies dog breeds and physical traits that pose the highest risk of biting with severe injury. Doctors ...
May 22, 2019
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Hairlessness in dogs can be the result of deliberate breeding or, in certain breeds, a defect. A recent study completed at the University of Helsinki describes a gene variant in the SGK3 gene, which causes hairlessness in ...
Apr 2, 2019
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In biomedical research, plant breeding, and countless other endeavors, geneticists are on the hunt for the specific genes responsible for disease susceptibility, yield, and other traits of interest. Essentially, they're looking ...
Dec 17, 2018
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