News tagged with bush rats
Bush rats fight back
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sydney's native bush rats were unintended victims of a campaign to exterminate foreign black rats during a plague epidemic in 1900, according to new research by scientists who plan to reintroduce ...
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Plague on their house, but bush rats fight back
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sydney's native bush rats were unintended victims of a campaign to exterminate foreign black rats during a plague epidemic in 1900, according to new research by scientists who plan to reintroduce ...
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Brain control? Shining light on pupil constriction
(PhysOrg.com) -- You’ve seen it on television: A doctor shines a bright light into an unconscious patient’s eye to check for brain death. If the pupil constricts, the brain is OK, because in mammals, ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Europe's first human embryonic stem cell trial approved
A US biotech company said Thursday it will soon begin the first-ever European trials using human embryonic stem cells in an experimental treatment for people with a form of juvenile blindness.
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Being a dominant breeder is costly for female banded mongooses
There's a subtle hierarchy among the women in banded mongoose societies: only older females get to breed, while younger ones have to wait their turn. If a young female mongoose decides to buck this trend, ...
Jul 18, 2011 |
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Rare white bird lifts hopes for N.Z. kiwis
An expectant silence hangs over the Pukaha bird sanctuary as hundreds of spectators await a glimpse of a rare white kiwi, a bird held sacred by New Zealand's indigenous Maori people.
Jul 15, 2011 |
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Spectacular mammal rediscovered after 113 years -- first ever photographs taken
(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique and mysterious guinea-pig-sized rodent, not seen since 1898 despite several organized searches, bizarrely showed up at the front door of an ecolodge at a nature reserve in Colombia, ...
May 19, 2011 |
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US clears embryonic stem cell trial for blindness (Update 3)
US biotech company Advanced Cell Technology said Monday it was cleared by government regulators to start its second trial using human embryonic stem cells to treat blindness, this time in older people.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Calories can burn at rest with regular exercise
It is widely known that weight gain is due to an imbalance between food intake and energy expenditure, and that exercise is vital for maintaining a healthy weight by burning calories as a result of muscular activity.
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Will monkeypox be the next smallpox?
Most vertebrate animal species have some sort of poxvirus capable of causing severe illness. These ancient pathogens have evolved within and among vertebrates since the dawn of life. In one of public health's greatest ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Chokeberry extract found to regulate weight gain, blood glucose, and inflammation in rats
Chokeberry bushes have for centuries been residents of eastern deciduous forests where their bright red and dark purple fruits continue to be favorite snacks of local bird species. Native Americans have also traditionally ...
Apr 25, 2010 |
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Humans, Other Mammals Similarly Voice Frustrations
Pet owners and scientists who spend a lot of time in the wild say that they can tell when an animal is upset by the sound of its voice. Now new analyses of animal calls may offer an explanation; humans seem ...
Nov 05, 2009 |
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