News tagged with responsible animal research

Scientists say animal rights extremists threaten researchers and health outcomes

Two new expert commentaries released in the September 16 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience spotlight the increasingly violent animal rights attacks and the need for an educated public and engaged research community to ens ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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




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Expedition studies acid impacts on Arctic

The effects of ocean acidification on Arctic seas will be studied by a team of 30 researchers, including Dr Toby Tyrrell from the University of Southampton, who set sail from the UK today (1 June), venturing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computer-designed proteins programmed to disarm variety of flu viruses

Computer-designed proteins are under construction to fight the flu. Researchers are demonstrating that proteins found in nature, but that do not normally bind the flu, can be engineered to act as broad-spectrum ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Training cells to perform boolean functions? It's logical

(Phys.org) -- Johns Hopkins scientists have engineered cells that behave like AND and OR Boolean logic gates, producing an output based on one or more unique inputs. This feat, published in the May issue of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Treating poultry diseases without antibiotics

Identifying antimicrobial proteins in chickens that kill pathogens is one method being used by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists to find alternatives to the use of antibiotics to control infectious ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cattle parasite found throughout Australia, study finds

A parasite linked to dogs and responsible for an estimated $30 million loss to the national cattle industry each year is present throughout Australia, a University of Sydney study has revealed.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The environment and pharmaceuticals and personal care products: What are the big questions?

Researchers at the University of York headed a major international review aimed at enhancing efforts to better understand the impacts of chemicals used in pharmaceuticals or in personal care products, such as cosmetics, soaps, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Australians 'may have to choose what to save'

The responsibility for choosing which Australian native species survive – and which go extinct – may ultimately fall to ordinary Australians.

Biology / Ecology

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Land and sea species differ in climate change response: study

(Phys.org) -- Marine and terrestrial species will likely differ in their responses to climate warming, new research by Simon Fraser University and Australia’s University of Tasmania has found.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 27, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

It's in the genes: Research pinpoints how plants know when to flower

Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Burmese cats to benefit from genetic test for newly discovered mutation

Burmese cats can inherit a muscle weakness, called Burmese hypokalaemia, which is caused by low levels of blood potassium.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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