Sign language orangutan dead at 39
Chantek, a male orangutan that learned to communicate in sign language, has died at the age of 39, a US zoo announced.
Chantek, a male orangutan that learned to communicate in sign language, has died at the age of 39, a US zoo announced.
Plants & Animals
Aug 8, 2017
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A new book, co-authored by a UTA researcher, empirically shows how badly sprawl affects health and other quality-of-life outcomes.
Social Sciences
Jul 18, 2017
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Researchers at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University have discovered important biomarkers in extracellular vesicles in dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease and congestive heart failure. This is the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 14, 2017
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A robotic doctor that can be controlled hundreds of kilometres away by a human counterpart is gearing up for action.
Robotics
Jun 27, 2017
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EPFL mathematician Alfio Quarteroni and his team are building a virtual heart model based on personalized medical images that may one day help cardiologists and cardiac surgeons non-invasively diagnose pathological heart ...
Mathematics
Jun 8, 2017
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Tiny particles in air pollution have been associated with cardiovascular disease, which can lead to premature death. But how particles inhaled into the lungs can affect blood vessels and the heart has remained a mystery. ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 26, 2017
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Scientists at the University of York have developed a technique that will enhance the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in identifying disease.
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 3, 2017
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Japanese researchers have confirmed the second case known to science of a chimpanzee born with trisomy 22, a chromosomal defect similar to that of Down syndrome (or trisomy 21) in humans. The report on Kanako, a 24-year-old ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 21, 2017
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Using tiny snippets of DNA as "barcodes," researchers have developed a new technique for rapidly screening the ability of nanoparticles to selectively deliver therapeutic genes to specific organs of the body. The technique ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 7, 2017
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A red panda, a species listed as endangered, has died at a suburban Philadelphia zoo.
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2017
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