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Why Are There No Unicorns?
May 30, 2007 — Why are there no unicorns? Perhaps horses develop in a way that cannot be easily modified to produce a unicorn, so such creatures have never arisen. Or maybe unicorn-like animals have been born in ... > full story -
Horses Suffer From Obesity, Just Like Humans
April 24, 2007 — Horses are inheritably couch potatoes. An overeating, slothful horse leads to an obese horse. Unlike humans, however, horse owners often don't see the dangers of an obese horse. Caretakers may see no ... > full story -
Horse Genome Assembled: Thoroughbred Mare's DNA Code Now Freely Available
February 7, 2007 — The first draft of the horse genome sequence has been deposited in public databases and is freely available for use by biomedical and veterinary researchers around the globe, leaders of the ... > full story -
Stem Cells May Help Heal Joint Injuries
February 5, 2007 — As anyone who's ever injured a knee or elbow will tell you, recovery can be a long and painful process. Cartilage is an exceptionally slow-healing tissue, and, until now, the missing or damaged ... > full story -
New Evidence Of Early Horse Domestication
October 23, 2006 — Soil from a Copper Age site in northern Kazakhstan has yielded new evidence for domesticated horses up to 5,600 years ago. The discovery, consisting of phosphorus-enriched soils inside what appear to ... > full story -
Composting May Be Alternative In Wake Of Horse Slaughter Bill
October 12, 2006 — The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, making its way from the U.S. House to the Senate, could leave thousands of horses with no final resting ground. Composting may be an environmentally ... > full story -
Drugs Would Reduce Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Bioterrorism Threat, Counter Natural Outbreaks
September 15, 2006 — Biomedical researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have taken an important early step toward developing effective drug therapies against Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis ... > full story -
Virus Linked To Thoroughbred Abortion Epidemic
June 23, 2006 — A new study by veterinary researchers at Oregon State University has linked a major epidemic of abortion a few years ago in Kentucky Thoroughbred mares to infection with vesivirus, the first time the ... > full story -
World's First Cloned Equine Athletes Training For Races
May 17, 2006 — It will be nature vs. nurture when the University of Idaho's two mule clones Idaho Gem and Idaho Star take to the racetrack at Winnemucca, Nev., June 3 and 4 for the first leg of mule racing's triple ... > full story -
Man May Have Caused Pre-Historic Extinctions
May 5, 2006 — New research shows that pre-historic horses in Alaska may have been hunted into extinction by man, rather than by climate change as previously thought. The discovery by Andrew Solow of Woods Hole ... > full story
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