I know a lot about the selective breeding of purebred cats! I never thought that I would read about the selective breeding of coal reefs but it’s become necessary as a stopgap measure to try and allow coral reefs to survive the rising temperatures in …
You might think that seagulls prefer chips to fish in the sea. You might think this because we often see pictures of seagulls taking chips and other human fast-food out of the hands of tourists at the seaside. Hounding those tourists into handing over the …
Research indicates that gray squirrels can outcompete red squirrels and the reason why they have pushed the red squirrel out of large parts of England is because they have better gut bacteria. It sounds improbable but gray squirrel gut bacteria suggests that they can digest …
Health is closely linked to happiness. Eat well to be happier…. I noticed a little snippet of news in this morning’s newspaper about a healthy diet for women and it concerns plant protein. This interests me because if people eat more plant protein, they eat …
In Britain, gene-edited chickens have been created which makes them resistant to the H9N2-UDL strain of bird flu. Bird flu has decimated poultry and wild birds in recent years in the UK. Also, bird flu is a zoonosis and can be transferred from birds to …
NEWS AND VIEWS: Scientists in China have been able to grow kidneys that are 60% human in terms of their cellular structure inside pigs in a quest to solve the problem of supply and demand in terms of kidney transplants. They think that they might …
A study published in 1998 sheds some light on the incidence of emergency department treatment of dog bites in America. The researchers took the data from the 1992-94 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Centre for Health …
This is not about the human-animal relationship which is the prime topic of this website but about the human-animal and our evolution from the great apes. Scientists at a number of institutions and universities – primarily Texas University and Columbia – have identified the genetic …
Scientists have revealed that mosquitoes are attracted to a certain combination of body odour smells and the soap that that person uses. There is an interplay between the chemicals in soaps and the chemicals in the body odour of each individual person and when the …