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Test-tube calf embryos more likely to survive Texas summers

Think you're uncomfortable in the extreme Texas summer heat? Try being an ovulating 1,200-pound mother cow.

Biology / Other

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Inadequate supply of protein building blocks may explain pregnancy failures in bovine cloning experiments

Amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, are essential to support the normal growth of a developing embryo and the placenta. An insufficient supply of amino acids in the mother's uterus caused by abnormal ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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

Beef study: Heifers don't have to be pigs at the feed bunk

Heifers being prepared for breeding don't have to eat like pigs, stuffing themselves at all-you-can-eat feed bunks with unlimited refills, according to scientists at a Montana State University experiment station. ...

Biology / Other

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Few replicas as first cloned cat nears 10

Nearly 10 years after scientists cloned the first cat, predictions of a vast commercial market for the "resurrection" of beloved pets through cloning have fallen flat.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Argentine lab clones cow to produce human-like milk

An Argentine laboratory announced that it had created the world's first transgenic cow, using human genes that will allow the animal to produce the equivalent of mothers' milk.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Man celebrates 85 years of living with diabetes

(AP) -- When Bob Krause turned 90 last week, it was by virtue of an unflagging determination and a mentality of precision that kept his body humming after being diagnosed with diabetes as a boy.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 30, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Europe prays for Easter rain in worst drought for a century

The Dutch have banned barbecues, camp fires and outdoor smoking this Easter, while the Swiss are forecasting potentially the worst drought in Europe for more than a century.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Genetically modified cows may one day produce human breast milk

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in China led by Ning Li, the director of the State Key Laboratories for AgroBiotechnology at the China Agricultural University, have created cow milk similar to human breast milk ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 23 | with audio podcast report

Stimulus funds help wire rural homes for Internet

(AP) -- Up in rural northern Vermont, it took until the 1960s to run power lines to some towns - decades after the rest of America got turned on.

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

On the trail of a stealthy parasite

About one-third of the human population is infected with a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, but most of them don’t know it.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 04, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Infant hydrocephalus, seasonal and linked to farm animals in Uganda

Hydrocephalus in Ugandan children and other developing countries is seasonal, linked to farm animals and in part, caused by previous bacterial infection, according to an international team of researchers from ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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