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Cell Transplantation study shows bone growth from implanted tooth and dental pulp stem cells

Researchers in Japan have completed a study showing that stem cells derived from deciduous canine teeth and dental pulp can be grafted and produce bone regeneration between parents and offspring. Their results are published ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Not just skin deep -- CT study of early humans reveals evolutionary relationships

CT scans of fossil skull fragments may help researchers settle a long-standing debate about the evolution of Africa's Australopithecus, a key ancestor of modern humans that died out some 1.4 million years ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unique canine tooth from Peking man found

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils from so-called Peking man are extremely rare, as most of the finds disappeared during World War II. A unique discovery has been made at the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University—a ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Archaeologists discover saber-toothed vegetarian

Surprised scientists have discovered the remains of a saber-toothed vegetarian.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 7

Canine influenza vaccine found effective against secondary infections

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research by Ron Schultz, professor and chair of the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, has shown the newly approved Canine ...

Biology / Other

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers study genetic evolution of African dogs

(PhysOrg.com) -- African village dogs are not a mixture of modern breeds but have directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs, according to a Cornell-led genetic analysis of hundreds of semi-feral ...

Biology / Evolution

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers discover evolutionary event underlying the origin of dachshunds, dogs with short legs

A single evolutionary event appears to explain the short, curved legs that characterize all of today's dachshunds, corgis, basset hounds and at least 16 other breeds of dogs, a team led by the National Human ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Baby canine teeth: No evidence to support extraction

The practice of extracting baby canine teeth to make way for adult canines that are erupting in the wrong place has no evidential basis, according to a new study by Cochrane Researchers. In a systematic review, the researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Soy may aid in treating canine cancers

Researchers at North Carolina State University are looking to soy as a way to make traditional canine cancer therapy more effective, less stressful for the dog and less costly for the owners.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers develop DNA 'patch' for canine form of muscular dystrophy

Using a novel genetic technology that covers up genetic errors, researchers funded in part by the National Institutes of Health have developed a successful treatment for dogs with the canine version of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rabies deaths from dog bites could be eliminated

Someone in the developing world - particularly in rural Africa - dies from a rabid dog bite every 10 minutes.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0