This little piggy went to court: German piglets 'sue over castration'
Little piggies go to market, but in Germany they also go to court.
Veterinary medicine
Dec 15, 2019
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News tagged with pain
Is your cat in pain? Its facial expression could hold a clue
They say that eyes are windows to the soul. Indeed, research suggests this might also be true for our four-legged friends. Since the days of our most celebrated natural historian, Charles Darwin, humans have been interested ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2019
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New AI could help diagnose dogs suffering from chronic pain
CKCS are predisposed to CM—a disease which causes deformity of the skull, the neck (cranial cervical vertebrae) and, in some extreme cases, lead to spinal cord damage called syringomyelia (SM). While SM is straightforward ...
Veterinary medicine
Nov 7, 2019
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From cone snail venom to pain relief
Conotoxins are bioactive peptides found in the venom that marine cone snails produce for prey capture and defense. They are used as pharmacological tools to study pain signalling and have the potential to become a new class ...
Biochemistry
Nov 4, 2019
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Nanoparticle drug delivery provides pain relief and more effective opioid alternative in animal study
An international team of researchers has used nanoparticles to deliver a drug—one that previously failed in clinical trials for pain—into specific compartments of nerve cells, dramatically increasing its ability to treat ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 4, 2019
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Lop-eared rabbits more likely to have tooth/ear problems than erect eared cousins
Lop (floppy) eared rabbits are more likely than erect ('up') eared breeds to have potentially painful ear and dental problems that may ultimately affect their ability to hear and eat properly, finds a small observational ...
Veterinary medicine
Oct 1, 2019
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Fish experience pain with 'striking similarity' to mammals
A new University of Liverpool study has concluded that the anglers' myth 'that fish don't feel pain' can be dispelled: fish do indeed feel pain, with a similarity to that experienced by mammals including humans.
Plants & Animals
Sep 25, 2019
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Ecologists find bird-deterring nets create haven for stinging venomous caterpillars
While collecting data from live oak trees in the world's largest medical center, Rice University evolutionary ecologists have discovered huge quantities of one of North America's most venomous caterpillars.
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2019
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Pets in America now get human treatment
Eleven-year-old Bess waits patiently to be immersed in water just a little cooler than her body temperature.
Veterinary medicine
Aug 4, 2019
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More Basra water crises unless Iraq govt fixes 'failures': HRW
Human Rights Watch on Monday warned of a repeat of last year's deadly water crisis in Iraq's oil-rich southern province of Basra unless authorities correct decades of management failures.
Environment
Jul 22, 2019
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