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77 percent of European pigs are castrated without anesthetic

The castration of pigs prevents the "boar taint" smell in the meat and allows them to contain more fat. However in practice this can be very different. Now, for the first time, a scientific team has collected ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Surgical castration of cats, dogs leads to increased tendency to postoperative coagulation, inflammatory changes

Dogs and cats that are sterilised or castrated develop a stress response: inflammatory changes and an increased tendency to coagulation after the operation.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The zombie-ant fungus is under attack, research reveals

A parasite that fights the zombie-ant fungus has yielded some of its secrets to an international research team led by David Hughes of Penn State University. The research reveals, for the first time, how an ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Sexual offenses between inmates occur less often in states that allow conjugal visitation

Could widespread conjugal visitation reduce sexual offending in prisons? It's a possibility, according to Stewart D'Alessio and his team from Florida International University in the US. Their work shows that in states where ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Sex-specific behaviors traced to hormone-controlled genes in the brain

Hormones shape our bodies, make us fertile, excite our most basic urges, and as scientists have known for years, they govern the behaviors that separate men from women. But how?

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

China clones castrated quake hero pig

A heroic pig who survived more than a month buried under rubble after the 2008 earthquake in China's Sichuan province has been successfully cloned, according to a report Sunday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Hitchhiking snails fly from ocean to ocean

Smithsonian scientists and colleagues report that snails successfully crossed Central America, long considered an impenetrable barrier to marine organisms, twice in the past million years -- both times probably ...

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created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Endangered Puerto Rican parrot on the rise

(AP) -- Deep amid the dense greenery of a rain forest, down an unmarked road, behind a barbed wire fence in a low-slung compound monitored by security cameras, government scientists are nursing a special ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 25, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The ewe can mitigate adverse experiences in her lambs

Lambs are likely to encounter a number of adverse events, starting from the fetal stage. In rodents and humans, it was shown that the mother can mitigate the effects of adverse experiences in her young.

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created May 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treasures lost and found

Buried hoards are the stuff of childhood dreams. Treasure Under Your Feet, an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, brings together precious objects found all over East Anglia. Heaps of glittering coins, a ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Immune therapy can control fertility in mammals

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have shown that it is possible to immunize mammals to control fertility. They say their technique could possibly be used on other mammals -- including humans -- because fertility ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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