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Animal Research is the use of animals in scientific procedures that helps scientists understand diseases that afflict animals and humans.
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MAR 09, 2015Immunology
Alligators are formidable animals. They have been around since the age of dinosaurs-and they certainly look like i ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 06, 2015Neuroscience
If you walk into your local drug store and ask for a supplement to help you sleep, you might be directed to a bottle lab ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 06, 2015Immunology
There are 4 known groups of HIV strains that affect humans. Two of them originated in western lowland gorillas in ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 06, 2015Microbiology
Researchers have engineered nanobombs to wipe out pathogens that can spoil food and pose health risks.
A stud ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 06, 2015Plants & Animals
The field of paleobiology and the study of ecological diversity have some new data and it's proving to be quite differen ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 05, 2015Neuroscience
A study from Harvard Medical School researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital revea ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 05, 2015Plants & Animals
Like people, female killer whales undergo menopause, living long after their baby-bearing days are done. But why people, ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 02, 2015Plants & Animals
When zoologist Ivan Sazima went for a walk in the park in southeastern Brazil on a warm September day in 2013, he was ho ...Written By: Greg CruikshankFEB 28, 2015Plants & Animals
Penguins are best known for their swimming, rock hopping and all around adorableness, but people forget that they are bi ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 26, 2015Plants & Animals
While we would all like to believe that our pets greet us at the end of the day because they remember us as their best a ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 25, 2015Neuroscience
Two areas of the brain - the hippocampus (yellow) and the prefrontal cortex (blue) - use two different brain-wave freque ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderFEB 25, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have shown that small molecules can "hijack" enzyme function in mice, suggesting a possible preventive mechan ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderFEB 23, 2015Microbiology
The appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, such as West Nile virus and Ebola, is a predictable r ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeFEB 23, 2015Cardiology
The average heart beats 35 million times a year - 2.5 billion times over a lifetime. Those beats must be precisely calib ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeFEB 23, 2015Plants & Animals
In the wild, animals mature faster than humans, often mating and producing offspring even as young as a year old. The li ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 23, 2015Immunology
Scientists have described a previously unknown insect-borne virus, following the death of a man in the Kansas county of ...Written By: Greg CruikshankFEB 22, 2015Plants & Animals
Several crocodile relatives amuse themselves by splashing water and giving each other piggyback rides, a new study says. ...Written By: Greg CruikshankFEB 17, 2015Genetics & Genomics
The gradual modification of a species' structures and features, otherwise known as the principle of adaptation, is one o ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderFEB 13, 2015Neuroscience
While tens of millions of people have abnormal, leak-prone sproutings of blood vessels in the brain called cerebral cave ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderFEB 10, 2015Videos
Researchers from the University of California San Diego were recently successful in their attempt to administer drugs in ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 10, 2015Plants & Animals
When the sound of a bag of potato chips is being torn open by someone, the noise cuts through a darkened movie theater. ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderFEB 02, 2015Plants & Animals
A rare and stunning creature may soon go the way of the dodo bird if scientists are correct in their predictions. The bl ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJAN 19, 2015Neuroscience
In order to survive and power the human brain for its millions of functions, neurons in the cerebral cortex need a stead ...Written By: Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 09, 2015
Immunology
Alligators are formidable animals. They have been around since the age of dinosaurs-and they certainly look like i ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 06, 2015
Neuroscience
If you walk into your local drug store and ask for a supplement to help you sleep, you might be directed to a bottle lab
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 06, 2015
Immunology
There are 4 known groups of HIV strains that affect humans. Two of them originated in western lowland gorillas in ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 06, 2015
Microbiology
Researchers have engineered nanobombs to wipe out pathogens that can spoil food and pose health risks.
A stud ...
A stud ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 06, 2015
Plants & Animals
The field of paleobiology and the study of ecological diversity have some new data and it's proving to be quite differen
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 05, 2015
Neuroscience
A study from Harvard Medical School researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital revea
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 05, 2015
Plants & Animals
Like people, female killer whales undergo menopause, living long after their baby-bearing days are done. But why people,
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 02, 2015
Plants & Animals
When zoologist Ivan Sazima went for a walk in the park in southeastern Brazil on a warm September day in 2013, he was ho
...
Written By:
Greg Cruikshank
FEB 28, 2015
Plants & Animals
Penguins are best known for their swimming, rock hopping and all around adorableness, but people forget that they are bi
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 26, 2015
Plants & Animals
While we would all like to believe that our pets greet us at the end of the day because they remember us as their best a
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 25, 2015
Neuroscience
Two areas of the brain - the hippocampus (yellow) and the prefrontal cortex (blue) - use two different brain-wave freque
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
FEB 25, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have shown that small molecules can "hijack" enzyme function in mice, suggesting a possible preventive mechan
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
FEB 23, 2015
Microbiology
The appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, such as West Nile virus and Ebola, is a predictable r
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
FEB 23, 2015
Cardiology
The average heart beats 35 million times a year - 2.5 billion times over a lifetime. Those beats must be precisely calib
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
FEB 23, 2015
Plants & Animals
In the wild, animals mature faster than humans, often mating and producing offspring even as young as a year old. The li
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 23, 2015
Immunology
Scientists have described a previously unknown insect-borne virus, following the death of a man in the Kansas county of
...
Written By:
Greg Cruikshank
FEB 22, 2015
Plants & Animals
Several crocodile relatives amuse themselves by splashing water and giving each other piggyback rides, a new study says.
...
Written By:
Greg Cruikshank
FEB 17, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
The gradual modification of a species' structures and features, otherwise known as the principle of adaptation, is one o
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
FEB 13, 2015
Neuroscience
While tens of millions of people have abnormal, leak-prone sproutings of blood vessels in the brain called cerebral cave
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
FEB 10, 2015
Videos
Researchers from the University of California San Diego were recently successful in their attempt to administer drugs in
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 10, 2015
Plants & Animals
When the sound of a bag of potato chips is being torn open by someone, the noise cuts through a darkened movie theater.
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
FEB 02, 2015
Plants & Animals
A rare and stunning creature may soon go the way of the dodo bird if scientists are correct in their predictions. The bl
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 19, 2015
Neuroscience
In order to survive and power the human brain for its millions of functions, neurons in the cerebral cortex need a stead
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim