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Horse Blind Date Could Lead to Loss of Foal
March 29, 2011 — Fetal loss is a common phenomenon in domestic horses after away-mating, according to researchers. When mares return home after mating with a foreign stallion, they either engage in promiscuous mating ... > full story -
Motion Sensors Used to Determine Equine Lameness
March 21, 2011 — The most common ailment to affect a horse is lameness. An equine veterinarian has developed a system to effectively assess this problem using motion detection. This system has been referred to as ... > full story -
Biodiversity Conservation: Zoos Urged to Breed Animals from Threatened Populations
March 17, 2011 — Zoological gardens breed animals from threatened populations and can thus make a greater contribution towards biodiversity ... > full story -
Fossils of Horse Teeth Indicate 'You Are What You Eat'
March 3, 2011 — Fossil records verify a long-standing theory that horses evolved through natural selection. Scientists arrived at the conclusion after examining the teeth of 6,500 fossil horses representing 222 ... > full story -
Scientists Generate Pluripotent Stem Cells from Horses
February 28, 2011 — Pluripotent stem cells have now been generated from horses. The findings will help enable new stem-cell based regenerative therapies in veterinary medicine, and because horses' muscle and tendon ... > full story -
Sleeping Trojan Horse to Aid Imaging of Diseased Cells
February 17, 2011 — A unique strategy developed by researchers in the UK is opening up new possibilities for improving medical imaging. Medical imaging often requires getting unnatural materials such as metal ions into ... > full story -
Hormonal Therapy for Older, Pregnant Horses?
January 24, 2011 — Like humans, horses are prone to miscarriage. In fact, about one in ten pregnancies results in miscarriage at a very early stage. Some horses have a history of early miscarriages and it has become ... > full story -
Obesity in Horses Could Be as High as in Humans
January 18, 2011 — At least one in five horses used for leisure are overweight or obese. It's a condition which can lead to laminitis and equine metabolic ... > full story -
A Possible Cause – And Cure – For Genital Cancer in Horses?
December 20, 2010 — The problem of cervical cancer in humans has been considerably reduced by the development of an efficient and cheap vaccine. Horses also suffer from genital cancer but surprisingly we are only now ... > full story -
Training the Trainers: How to Minimize Stress When Horses Are First Ridden
September 21, 2010 — Man has profited enormously from his ability to domesticate animals. Animals need training to perform particular tasks but until recently the effects of training on the animals concerned had hardly ... > full story
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