Friends 'fur' life help build skills for life
A new UBC Okanagan study finds children not only reap the benefits of working with therapy dogs—they enjoy it too.
Education
Feb 17, 2021
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News tagged with therapy dogs
Test of adeno-associated viral vectors with gene therapy in dogs with hemophilia produces evidence of genomic changes
A team of researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has found evidence of genomic changes in ...
Cockle shells picked to treat dog cancer
The calcium mineral from which many shellfish, such as cockles, make their shells can be used to form nanoparticles. These nanoparticles can then be "loaded" with small drug molecules, such as anticancer drugs.
Bio & Medicine
May 22, 2020
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Dog therapy: What I've learned overseeing 60 canine campus teams
The interaction always played out the same way. I'd leave my office and make my way across campus in search of coffee, my dog Frances by my side, and I would be besieged by students who, for the most part, would ignore me ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2019
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Study focused on improving radiation treatment for cancers in pet dogs
Can scientists improve cancer treatment for man's best friend?
Plants & Animals
Oct 05, 2018
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Do dogs have feelings?
If you live with a dog you just know when it's happy or miserable, don't you? Of course you do. Even the scientific community, now admits that dogs have emotions – even if scientists can't directly measure what they are ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 24, 2018
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Gene therapy helps dogs with muscle dystrophy, humans next?
Researchers have used gene editing to reverse symptoms in dogs of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)—a muscle-wasting and life-shortening disease that affects one in 5,000 baby boys.
Biotechnology
Jul 25, 2017
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Changes in 'microbiome' during canine atopic dermatitis could lead to antibiotic-free therapies
Atopic dermatitis (AD), a chronic inflammatory skin condition and the most common form of eczema, is estimated to afflict as much as 10 percent of the U.S. population, and is much more common now than it was 50 years ago. ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2016
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Team identifies a form of congenital night blindness in dogs
People with congenital stationary night blindness, or CSNB, have normal vision during the day but find it difficult or impossible to distinguish objects in low light. This rare condition is present from birth and can seriously ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2015
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Cancer prevalent in pets but treatable, says veterinarian
About 50 percent of dogs and 33 percent of cats age 10 years and older will develop cancer. Although it is very prevalent in these animals, a Kansas State University veterinarian says depending upon the type of cancer, it ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 03, 2014
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