http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- This year, hundreds of thousands of women and pet dogs will undergo a hysterectomy and have their ovaries removed along with their uterus. Now, two independent research studies looking at longevity may challenge almost four decades of standard operating procedures used in women and in pets. http://www.physorg.com/news178913565.html Biology Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:40:01 EST news178913565 Adults who use pet therapy while recovering from total joint-replacement surgery require 50 percent less pain medication than those who do not. These findings were presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the International Society of Anthrozoology and the First Human Animal Interaction Conference (HAI) in Kansas City, Mo. http://www.physorg.com/news177602810.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:11:30 EST news177602810 Thanks for killing the planet, dog owners. Well, that's a rough paraphrase of a New Zealand study that claims a medium-size dog leaves a larger ecological footprint than an SUV. http://www.physorg.com/news176582720.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:20:05 EST news176582720 Ever since the Falklands wolf was described by Darwin himself, the origin of this now-extinct canid found only on the Falkland Islands far off the east coast of Argentina has remained a mystery. Now, researchers reporting in the November 3rd issue of Current Biology who have compared DNA from four of the world's dozen or so known Falklands wolf museum specimens to that of living canids offer new insight into the evolutionary ancestry of these enigmatic carnivores. http://www.physorg.com/news176386988.html Biology Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:23:45 EST news176386988 Most of today's gastroenterologists practice in relatively calm environments with patients of the same species. But for Dr. Leon Kundrotas and his colleagues working in Joint Base Balad, Iraq, the need to diagnose and treat military personnel sometimes required putting their human skills to the test to care for canine heroes. http://www.physorg.com/news175776038.html Biology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:41:20 EST news175776038 Animals shelter officials housing lost pets that had been implanted with a microchip were able to find the owners in almost three out of four cases in a recently published national study. http://www.physorg.com/news174672268.html Biology Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:30:03 EST news174672268 A team of scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, USA, says that studying pet dogs with cancer could yield valuable information on how to diagnose and treat human cancers. In this week's PLoS Medicine, the team discusses an ongoing initiative in which spontaneously occurring cancers in dogs are being studied to help inform the development of new cancer drugs, devices and imaging strategies for human cancer patients. http://www.physorg.com/news174634146.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:41:23 EST news174634146 You might watch your daily calorie intake or glance over nutritional information on food packages, but do you do the same for your pet? http://www.physorg.com/news174218264.html Biology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:10:03 EST news174218264 A study by developmental scientists at the University of Iowa and Indiana University challenges the conclusions of two recent studies on how babies and dogs respond to certain social cues. The new findings, published in this Friday's edition of the journal Science, indicate that babies and dogs may not be as clever as the other studies suggest. http://www.physorg.com/news173021113.html Medicine & Health Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:26:24 EST news173021113 People and their dogs both need physical activity to fight obesity, and there are many exercises that owner and pet can do together that can improve their health and their relationship, according to a Kansas State University expert. http://www.physorg.com/news171632112.html Biology Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:35:53 EST news171632112 Puppies born from the world's first cloned dog will be offered to good homes later this year, South Korean researchers said on Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news171178519.html Biology Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:10:04 EST news171178519 Previous studies in the field have indicated that East Asia is where the wolf was tamed and became the dog. It was not possible to be more precise than that. But now researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm have managed to zero in on man's best friend. http://www.physorg.com/news171026678.html Biology Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:25:30 EST news171026678 South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk plans to present two cloned dogs to one of the country's provinces to help it nurture a bio-technology industry, his research centre said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news170905646.html Biology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:00:01 EST news170905646 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah researchers used data from Portuguese water dogs - the breed of President Barack Obama's dog Bo - to help find a gene that gives some dogs curly hair and others long, wavy hair. http://www.physorg.com/news170327823.html Biology Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:00:05 EST news170327823 (AP) -- Like seeing-eye dogs for the blind, trained dogs are now being used to help autistic children deal with their disabilities. But some schools want to keep the animals out, and families are fighting back. http://www.physorg.com/news170091938.html Medicine & Health Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:53:02 EST news170091938 In an advance toward the first portable device for detecting human bodies buried in disasters and at crime scenes, scientists today report early results from a project to establish the chemical fingerprint of death. Speaking here at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), they said a profile of the chemicals released from decomposing bodies could also lead to a valuable new addition to the forensic toolkit: An electronic device that could determine the time elapsed since death quickly, accurately and onsite. http://www.physorg.com/news169704325.html Chemistry Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:40:03 EST news169704325 A cloned sniffer dog has proved itself smarter than the average pup by detecting drugs at South Korea's main airport just weeks after starting service, officials said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news169283100.html Biology Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:30:03 EST news169283100 (AP) -- Lucy the Labradoodle scoots along the ground to grab a bone. http://www.physorg.com/news169103016.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:04:13 EST news169103016 Although you wouldn't want one to balance your checkbook, dogs can count. http://www.physorg.com/news168967215.html Biology Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:20:51 EST news168967215 (PhysOrg.com) -- African village dogs are not a mixture of modern breeds but have directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs, according to a Cornell-led genetic analysis of hundreds of semi-feral village dogs. http://www.physorg.com/news168619238.html Biology Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:41:07 EST news168619238 Dog breeds selected to work in visual contact with humans, such as sheep dogs and gun dogs, are better able to comprehend a pointing gesture than those breeds that usually work without direct supervision. A series of tests, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions, should caution researchers against making simple generalizations about the effects of domestication and on dog-wolf differences in the utilization of human visual signals. http://www.physorg.com/news167633075.html Biology Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:10:02 EST news167633075 New research shows babies have a handle on the meaning of different dog barks - despite little or no previous exposure to dogs. http://www.physorg.com/news167317313.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:02:27 EST news167317313 South Korea customs has deployed what it claims to be the world's first cloned working sniffer dogs, officials said Sunday. http://www.physorg.com/news167210308.html Biology Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:40:01 EST news167210308 A single evolutionary event appears to explain the short, curved legs that characterize all of today's dachshunds, corgis, basset hounds and at least 16 other breeds of dogs, a team led by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, reported today. In addition to what it reveals about short-legged dogs, the unexpected discovery provides new clues about how physical differences may arise within species and suggests new approaches to understanding a form of human dwarfism. http://www.physorg.com/news166974957.html Biology Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:50:12 EST news166974957 (PhysOrg.com) -- Biologically speaking, many animals besides dogs bark, according to Kathryn Lord at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, but the evolutionary biologist also says domestic dogs vocalize in this way much more than birds, deer, monkeys and other wild animals that use barks. The reason is related to dogs` 10,000-year history of hanging around human food refuse dumps, she suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news166808234.html Biology Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:50:05 EST news166808234 Many animals and people experience chronic joint pain. In dogs, a common source of joint pain is hip dysplasia, a developmental defect of the hip joint. Implantation of gold into the soft tissues around the hip joints of dogs with dysplasia can relieve pain and lessen stiffness for several years. http://www.physorg.com/news165241126.html Medicine & Health Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:19:16 EST news165241126 Scientists in New Jersey are describing discovery and successful tests of the first once-a-month pill for controlling both fleas and ticks in domestic dogs and cats. Their study is in the current issue of ACS` Journal of the Medicinal Chemistry. http://www.physorg.com/news165084546.html Chemistry Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:20:01 EST news165084546 Prairie dogs may seem like harmless little creatures, but they can inflict serious injury on plants simply by snacking on them. Plants cannot flee from their furry predators, so how do they avoid becoming a prairie dog's lunch? http://www.physorg.com/news164994327.html Biology Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:10:03 EST news164994327 What dog owner has not come home to a broken vase or other valuable items and a guilty-looking dog slouching around the house? By ingeniously setting up conditions where the owner was misinformed as to whether their dog had really committed an offense, Alexandra Horowitz, Assistant Professor from Barnard College in New York, uncovered the origins of the `guilty look` in dogs in the recently published `Canine Behaviour and Cognition` Special Issue of Elsevier`s Behavioural Processes. http://www.physorg.com/news163918477.html Other Sciences Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:55:29 EST news163918477 Osteoarthritis is commonly diagnosed in the late and irreversible stages, when treatment can only be expected to decrease pain and slow progression of disease. Because osteoarthritis is a widespread problem in dogs, horses and humans, doctors and veterinarians need a precise way to diagnose the disease early and accurately. Now, University of Missouri researchers are investigating potential biomarkers in dogs for early diagnosis of osteoarthritis, which could help identify patients at increased risk of developing osteoarthritis. http://www.physorg.com/news163862114.html Biology Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:15:36 EST news163862114