Monday, May 1, 2017

Understanding the internal emotions of animals - The Week Magazine


The Week Magazine

Understanding the internal emotions of animals
The Week Magazine
In the study of animal behavior, researchers usually try to smooth out individual differences by looking at large data sets. But this performance, staged as part of the Making Nature exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, turned that method ...



Gene editing strategy eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals, Temple researchers show - EurekAlert (press release)


Gene editing strategy eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals, Temple researchers show
EurekAlert (press release)
The team is the first to demonstrate that HIV-1 replication can be completely shut down and the virus eliminated from infected cells in animals with a powerful gene editing technology known as CRISPR/Cas9. The work was led by Wenhui Hu, MD, PhD, ...



People bringing wild animals into their homes, officials say - WHAG


WHAG

People bringing wild animals into their homes, officials say
WHAG
They say there have been several instances in the past few weeks of people bringing animals that look like they need help into their homes and then calling someone. Health experts recommend leaving the animal outside and calling either the Department ...



Hats Off: Marshall Middle School sixth-grader raising money to help animals - Gazettextra


Gazettextra

Hats Off: Marshall Middle School sixth-grader raising money to help animals
Gazettextra
Who: Hannah Frank, 12, an animal lover and sixth-grader at Marshall Middle School in Janesville. What she does: Sells homemade products with the goal of donating the profits to the Humane Society of Southern Wisconsin. Since around the beginning of the ...



Understanding the internal emotions of animals - The Week Magazine


The Week Magazine

Understanding the internal emotions of animals
The Week Magazine
In the study of animal behavior, researchers usually try to smooth out individual differences by looking at large data sets. But this performance, staged as part of the Making Nature exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, turned that method ...



Massive Victory for Animals Rights as Los Angeles Bans Use of All Wild Animals in Circuses - AlterNet


AlterNet

Massive Victory for Animals Rights as Los Angeles Bans Use of All Wild Animals in Circuses
AlterNet
On April 25, the city council of the nation's second largest city—and the capital of the entertainment industry—unanimously voted to ban the exhibition of wild or exotic animals for entertainment, including circuses, other wild animal shows, displays ...



Kent State architecture student building environments for animals - Akron Beacon Journal


Kent State architecture student building environments for animals
Akron Beacon Journal
KENT: A Kent State University architecture student has launched a student group called Barkitecture that involves building environments for animals, the Kent-Ravenna Record-Courier reports. Sophomore Josh Myers and other students are working with the ...