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New eye drops slow vision loss in animals: Study
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Researchers have developed eye drops that extend vision in animal models of a group of inherited diseases that lead to progressive vision loss in humans, known as retinitis pigmentosa.
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Some spiders may transfer mercury contamination to land animals: Study
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Many spiders sit patiently in their webs, waiting for prey to come to them. Arachnids that live near lakes and rivers eat aquatic insects like dragonflies. However, if these insects live in mercury-contaminated streams, the metal can be passed on to the spiders that feed on them. Researchers
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Climate change impact on animals: Study
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
According to a recent study, the effects of climate change on animals would have cascading effects on nutrition, environment, behaviour, physical health, and mental health, among other five categories of welfare.
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Research explains how plants optimize photosynthesis under changing light
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
For research, plants are frequently grown under stable lighting, which does not reflect natural conditions. In a series of experiments with changing light conditions, simulating the natural interplay of light and shadow, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
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Structure of family groups gives animals incentive to help or harm their s
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 1(ANI): According to new research, the structure of family groups provides animals with an incentive to help or harm their social group as they age.
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Research shows family ties give animals reasons to 'help or harm' as they
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 26 (ANI): New research shows that the structure of family groups gives animals an incentive to help or harm their social group as they age.
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Study discovers brain evolution of lungfishes
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Adelaide [Australia], July 20 (ANI): With the help of research on ancient lungfish fossils, which filled in a gap in the history of land-living, four-legged creatures on earth, the evolution of the brain and nervous system in animals has been rewinded by more than 400 million years.
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Study: Dog ancestry traces back to two wolf populations
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 3 (ANI): According to the publications in the 'Nature' journal, a recent study conducted by an international team of Francis Crick Institute's archaeologists and geneticists has found that a dog's ancestry can be traced back to at least two prehistoric wolf populations.
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Dogs trace ancestry to two separate wolf populations, study reveals
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 29 (ANI): According to a new study by an international group of geneticists and archaeologists of the Francis Crick Institute, have discovered that the ancestry of dogs can be traced to at least two populations of ancient wolves. The study revealed the answer to the mos
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COVID-19 Omicron variant lung damage 'milder than Delta in animals': Study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], January 31 (ANI): Studies conducted by a group of international researchers on Monday said that the COVID-19 variant Omicron causes less severe symptoms in the lungs of hamsters than the Delta variant.
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Climate change, human pressure has made migration 'no longer worth it' for
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 23 (ANI): According to the international research team, including scientists from the University of Bath, animals that migrate north to breed are being put at risk by ongoing climate change and increasing human pressure.
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Inhaled COVID-19 vaccine prevents disease, virus transmission in animals:
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): In a new study assessing the potential of a single-dose, intranasal COVID-19 vaccine, a team from the University of Iowa and the University of Georgia found that the vaccine fully protects mice against lethal COVID-19 infection. The vaccine also blocks the anim
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