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• Rabies Confirmed In Denver Skunk
  Sat, 11 October 2008
  Following reports earlier this year of rabid skunks circulating in eastern counties of Colorado, the state lab at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has confirmed a rabid skunk in the vicinity of Sloan's Lake in Northwest Denver. According to epidemiologists at the state health department, this is the f ...
• Europeans Are Very Sceptical About Animal Cloning For Food Production, Eurobarometer Reveals
  Sat, 11 October 2008
  A Flash Eurobarometer study, presented by the European Commission today, reveals that European citizens have a generally negative perception of animal cloning for food production. The study was carried out to assess citizens' attitudes towards animal cloning. It indicates firstly, that the vast majority of citizens has a goo ...
• Scientists Confirm Second-Ever Case Of Virgin Birth By Shark
  Sat, 11 October 2008
  Scientists have confirmed the second-ever case of a virgin birth in a shark, indicating once again that female sharks can reproduce without mating and raising the possibility that many female sharks have this incredible capacity. This compelling new study will be published today in the latest issue of the Journal of Fish Bio ...
• University Of Montreal Professors Reflects On Google's 10th Anniversary As Internet's Pr ...
  Fri, 10 October 2008
  Google is an indispensable tool for any researcher, according to Bruce Murphy of the Università de MontrÃal Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. You can find anything on Google - even stem cells. I recently ordered some, says Murphy, director of the UdeM's Animal Reproduction Research Centre, one North America's largest hubs ...
• Veterinarians Say Good Hygiene, Common Sense Key To Healthy Pets And Families
  Fri, 10 October 2008
  In light of recent news reports focusing on the potential health risks to children less than 5 years of age from nontraditional pets, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is reminding the public that no matter what your age and no matter what species your pet, good hygiene practices greatly reduce the spread of ...
• Vision And Touch In Relation To Foraging And Predator Detection: Insightful Contrasts Be ...
  Thu, 09 October 2008
  In the majority of animals vision needs to serve two key demands simultaneously: (1) the detection of predators that are remote from the animal, and (2) the control of accurate behaviours, such as the procurement of food, at close quarters.
• Juvenile Starlings Exposed To Embryonic Corticosterone Have Enhanced Flight Performance
  Thu, 09 October 2008
  Exposure to maternal stress is commonly thought to be bad for offspring, but is it always? Researchers experimentally increased yolk levels of the stress hormone corticosterone in European starling eggs to mimic the 'signal' offspring receive that they will be raised in a low quality environment.
• A Thin-Shelled Reptile From The Late Triassic Of North America And The Origin Of The Tur ...
  Thu, 09 October 2008
  The origin of the turtle shell has long puzzled scientists, mostly because the early fossil record of the group is so poor. A team of scientists led by Walter Joyce at Yale University recently discovered a new fossil turtle from New Mexico that sheds light on this problem. The new turtle is extremely thin-shelled and con ...
• Commercialization Of LifeTide? SW 5 GHRH Gene Therapy Product For Pigs In Australia
  Thu, 09 October 2008
  VGX Animal Health Inc. (VGXAH) and its parent company, VGX Pharmaceuticals (VGXP), announced today the execution of an exclusive Distribution and Marketing Agreement for its LifeTide? SW 5 GHRH gene therapy product for pigs in Australia with Country Vet Wholesaling Pty Ltd (CVW). Under the Agreement, CVW has the exclusive ri ...
• Telencephalon Enlargement By The Convergent Evolution Of Expanded Subventricular Zones
  Thu, 09 October 2008
  Parrots and songbirds are similar to primates in having proportionately large forebrains. Striedter and Charvet show that parrots and songbirds also resemble primates in a key aspect of forebrain development: all three groups of animals have enlarged telencephalic subventricular zones, which contain specialized forebrain pr ...