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First Veterinary Corneal Implant Procedure In U.S. Performed On Dog
May 12, 2008 — The patient's sight was restored through a two-step surgical procedure that involves cutting into the eye to take out the cloudy cornea and inserting a permanent, plastic cornea. The new cornea is ... > full story -
Sniffing Dogs Detect Feces To Help Monitor And Protect Threatened Animals In Brazil
May 12, 2008 — It's a tough job, but somebody, or at least some dogs, have to do it. In the Cerrado region of Brazil, four dogs trained to detect animal feces by scent are helping researchers monitor rare and ... > full story -
Platypus Genome Explains Animal's Peculiar Features; Holds Clues To Evolution Of Mammals
May 7, 2008 — The duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal -- and the genome to prove it. Scientists have decoded the genome of the platypus, showing that the animal's peculiar mix of features is ... > full story -
Animals Are 'Stuck In Time' With Little Idea Of Past Or Future, Study Suggests
April 3, 2008 — Dog owners, who have noticed that their four-legged friends seem equally delighted to see them after five minutes away as five hours, may wonder if animals can tell when time passes. New research in ... > full story -
Unlocking The Psychology Of Snake And Spider Phobias
March 20, 2008 — Researchers have unlocked new evidence that could help them get to the bottom of our most common phobias and their causes. Hundreds of thousands of people count snakes and spiders among their fears, ... > full story -
Canine Influenza Was Around Earlier Than Once Thought
March 18, 2008 — The canine influenza virus, first identified in 2004, had been circulating in the greyhound population for at least five years prior to its discovery and may have been responsible for numerous ... > full story -
Like Dogs, Like Humans? Day Blindness In The Wirehaired Dachshund
March 11, 2008 — A young researchers has been investigating a retinal disease called cone-rod dystrophy in the Norwegian population of wirehaired dachshunds. His findings are of comparative interest for the ... > full story -
Policing Cells Demand ID To Tell Friend From Foe, Say Cell Engineers
March 11, 2008 — Scientists studying macrophages, the biological cells that spring from white blood cells to eat and destroy foreign or dying cells, have discovered how these "policemen" differentiate between friend ... > full story -
Pacemaker Tune-Up Works Chemical Wonders On Damaged Hearts In Dogs
March 5, 2008 — Using pacemakers to electrically re-tune a heart damaged by long bouts of a wobbling heartbeat, where one heart muscle wall is beating sooner than the other, leads to fast improvements in the tissue ... > full story -
Newly Identified Eye Disease In Dogs Can Be Easily Treated
March 4, 2008 — A professor of veterinary medicine has identified and named a previously unknown eye disease. Immune-Mediated Retinopathy, or IMR, causes loss of function in retinal cells and, in some cases, ... > full story
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