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• New On VETS.TV - RVC Launch A Multimedia Resource On Bovine Viral Diarrhoea
  Sun, 16 November 2008
  The latest addition to VETS.TV - the new web TV service hosted by BVA at www.vets.tv - is the first in a series of short videos to be produced by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) exploring how to control and prevent Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD). The first video comprises an introduction to the series by the recognised exp ...
• Launch Of British Veterinary Association Organisational Membership Scheme
  Sat, 15 November 2008
  The BVA has announced the launch of a new Organisational Membership scheme, following the recent activation of its Affiliate and Associate membership categories which saw the British Veterinary Nursing Association (BVNA) and the Veterinary Practice Management Association (VPMA) welcomed as Affiliate members.
• American Veterinary Medical Association Congratulates President-Elect Obama, Highlights ...
  Sat, 15 November 2008
  The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) hand delivered a letter this week to the office of President-elect Barack Obama, congratulating him on his historic election to the nation's highest office and highlighting key public and animal-related issues on which the AVMA is prepared to work with the incoming president ...
• Spatial And Temporal Pattern For The Dentition In The Australian Lungfish Revealed With ...
  Fri, 14 November 2008
  We find that in the living sister group to all tetrapods, the Australian lungfish, the order of tooth development is a stereotypic pattern shared with all osteichthyans. One gene for tooth committment, sonic hedgehog is expressed and intensely focused on tooth positions at different times corresponding with their initiatio ...
• Recognition Of Other Species' Aerial Alarm Calls: Speaking The Same Language Or Learning ...
  Fri, 14 November 2008
  How do birds know what another species is saying? Why would French woman jump from a road after an Englishman called danger? Perhaps the English word sounds similar enough to French to allow recognition, the woman has learnt English, the quality of voice indicates urgency, she saw the man leap off the road, or she too saw ...
• DNA Barcoding Insect-hostplant Associations
  Fri, 14 November 2008
  Insects and their hostplants are thought to be in an evolutionary arms race, but a great difficulty of studying insect-plant interactions is to establish what exactly an insect feeds on. We demonstrate a remarkable preservation of hostplant DNA within the insect that leaves a permanent record of the food source. Plant DNA ...
• AAAAI: 'Allergy-free' Dog An Unlikely Find For First Family
  Fri, 14 November 2008
  As President-Elect Barack Obama and the future First Family begin their search for a new pet to join them at the White House, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) wishes to remind individuals with allergies that there is no truly hypoallergenic dog. Obama's 10-year-old daughter, Malia, suffers fr ...
• Mating Behaviour In Lymnaea Stagnalis Pond Snails Is A Maternally Inherited, Lateralised ...
  Fri, 14 November 2008
  Functional specialisation of the brain and associated 'handedness' has traditionally been considered an adaptation that is confined to humans and other vertebrates, but recent studies have begun to reveal that a range of invertebrates are also handed in their behaviour. As part of an undergraduate project, we showed that t ...
• Review Of Laboratory Animal Protection; Directive Needs To Balance Animal Welfare, Resea ...
  Thu, 13 November 2008
  EFPIA, the voice of the research-based pharmaceutical industry in Europe, acknowledges the release of the review of Directive 86/609 on the protection of laboratory animals, launched by the European Commission today. EFPIA remains committed to contributing constructively to this legislation, which sets out rules and standard ...
• UK Research Councils Recommend Changes To The European Commission's Draft Animals Directive
  Thu, 13 November 2008
  The Medical Research Council (MRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) have expressed concern over proposed changes to the EU's animals Directive. The organisations consider the current proposals would lead to increased bureaucracy and hamper essenti ...