... of Medical Sciences on the increasingly fuzzy boundaries between the human and the animal is the latest in a long series of policy ... call into question what it means to be human. Take the human genome project: many of us may have intuitively ...
... , wondered what goes on inside (non-human) animals' brains--Are they thinking, or just acting ... seem to have any practical purpose, human perceptions of animal cognition actually play an important ...
... , which can carry micro-organisms harmful to human health. About 50 animal species, ranging from birds ... 's weak magnetic field and the effects of human activity on animal navigation," according to Devens Gust, foundation ...
... the well-known “fight or flight response” in humans and other animals. Adrenaline flows, and the stressed individual ... to clone a human heat shock gene in 1985. “The two neurons control how all the other cells in the animal ...
... -ME. At 14 weeks gestation – the presumable equivalent of the beginning of the third trimester in human pregnancy – the animals developed protein leak in the urine ...
... genes from 22q11 in the development of schizophrenia by using human genetics and animal model approaches. The significance of this work ... of genes (the most recent estimate puts the number of human microRNAs at at least 400 that influence the expression ...
... into evolutionary processes to promote development and could one day lead to new methods of controlling pain in humans and other animals. “The findings provide an intriguing glimpse ...
... powerful influences on the behaviour of social animals, from fish to sheep to humans. “The decision of whether to follow ... . A better understanding of this decision-making mechanism in humans and other animals helps us understand how people ...
... families. They also plan to scrutinize further genes affected by the identified mutations through human genetics and animal model approaches ...
... and antibiotics for fish and shrimp production. Many of these compounds are not approved for use in the United States. Untreated human waste and animal manure are often used to treat soils ...
... mosquito strains that transmit the malarial parasite to humans and other animals. The A. gambiae genome, isolated from an insecticide ... on the three-dimensional structure of a similar protein found in humans, principal investigator Mary A. Schuler and postdoctoral ...
... rapidly in bird populations, and then can be passed to humans or other animals through a vector mechanism, often ... in wildlife results in lower risks of humans becoming infected by animal diseases. The dilution effect ...
... to the expression of those genes. Since then, paramutations have been found in humans and other animals, as well as other plant species including ... that may be able to adapt to higher temperatures or drought conditions, as well as for applications in human and veterinary medicine ...
British scientists plan to create the world's first human stem cells from embryos that are part human and part animal
... , part of the brain may have shaped the more recent development of the slower-acting but more precise cortex, found in humans and higher animals ...
