LONDON (Reuters) - Having a dog in the house reduces the risk that young children will develop allergies, German researchers said on Tuesday.
Research involving a parachuting dog helped develop technology that was key to World War II's Allied victory in the air.
Scientists are studying sled dogs that run the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in an attempt to understand why the dogs are “fatigue-proof.”
A once-blind dog can now see to chase squirrels to her heart's content, thanks to the new plastic cornea she received in a novel surgery.
(AP) -- Israeli jails are using a custom-built computer program to interpret the barks of guard dogs and distinguish warnings of a breakout from everyday woofs, a prisons official said Monday.
A California company is planning a string of online auctions next month to clone five dogs, with the bidding to start at $100,000.
Surgeons at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine installed a pacemaker in a search-and-rescue dog's heart.
A bull Arab hound in Australia swallowed a poisonous cane toad whole, but she—and the toad—survived after the dog was given drugs to induce vomiting.
... new gene therapy has helped pet dogs with cancer live longer and could potentially improve ... Three months after the injection, 54 percent of the dogs had responded to gene therapy, as apparent on blood ...
A new gene therapy has helped pet dogs with cancer live longer and could potentially improve the quality of life and survival of people with cancer, said the therapy's developers.
A team led by disgraced stem cell scientist Hang Woo-suk says it has created 17 clones of an endangered dog breed.
A common sports injury in human knees is even more common in dogs. Each year, more than one million ... bone to stabilize the CCL-deficient knee in these dogs. Now, a new minimally invasive technique ...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 21 (UPI) -- Experts say that many Swedes love their dogs all too well, with one-fourth of the pets in the country suffering from obesity.
... a method to identify the genetic basis for this diversity that may have far-reaching benefits for dogs and their owners.
In the cover story of tomorrow's edition of the science journal Genetics, ...
Pointing, herding, and life span of dogs linked to specific stretches of DNA
