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Transgenic Goats' Milk Helps Fend off E. coli-related Illness in Pigs

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pigs fed goats' milk that was genetically modified to carry an important antibacterial enzyme found in human breast milk showed signs of better resisting attack by common E. coli bacteria than did pigs fed unmodified goats' ...


Are female mountain goats sexually conflicted over size of mate?

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mountain goats are no exception to the general rule among mammals that larger males sire more and healthier offspring. But University of Alberta researcher David Coltman has found a genetic quirk that might make female mountain ...


Man versus goats in Galapagos

Biology /

created May 01, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Grants from private donors and the United Nations are helping rangers at the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador turn the tide of the war against goats.


Transgenic Goat's Milk Offers Hope for Tackling Children's Intestinal Disease

Medicine & Health /

created Aug 04, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

It's hard to improve on milk, but animal scientists at the University of California, Davis, have found that milk produced by transgenic goats, which carry the gene for an antibacterial enzyme found in human breast milk, altered ...


Extinct goat Myotragus balearicus

Extinct goat was cold-blooded

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (39) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.


A potted history of milk

A potted history of milk

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 06, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans were processing cattle milk in pottery vessels more than two thousand years earlier than previously thought, according to new research from the University of Bristol.


Pharmaceutical breakthrough may make a range of drugs cheaper and more available

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created Jan 31, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new study published in the February 2008 print edition of The FASEB Journal describes a scientific advance that should reduce the cost and increase the availability of a wide range of drugs. In the report, University of ...


Promising new treatment for Alzheimer's suggested

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research carried out at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has resulted in a promising approach to help treat Alzheimer's disease in a significant proportion of the population that suffers from a particularly rapid development ...


Chronic wasting disease found in 13 elk

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created Apr 10, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The U.S. National Park Service said 13 female elk captured in Rocky Mountain National Park this winter tested positive for chronic wasting disease.


Iberian wolves prefer wild roe deer to domestic animals

Iberian wolves prefer wild roe deer to domestic animals

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Spanish researcher has analysed the preferences of wolves from the north east of the Iberian Peninsula to demonstrate that, in reality, their favourite prey are roe deer, deer and wild boar, ahead of domestic ...


Archaeologists find earliest known domestic horses

Archaeologists find earliest known domestic horses

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest known evidence of horses being domesticated by humans. The discovery suggests that horses were both ridden and milked. The ...


New tissue scaffold regrows cartilage and bone

New tissue scaffold regrows cartilage and bone

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT engineers and colleagues have built a new tissue scaffold that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when transplanted into the knees and other joints.


Internet and videogame addictions have been a growing problem during the past decade

Cyber junkies can unplug at US retreat

Technology / Internet

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

The first US retreat for Internet addicts has opened its doors, welcoming a teenager that was captive to World of Warcraft online role-playing videogame.


University researchers promote new animal recognition technology

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two entrepreneurial researchers from The University of Queensland and the University of Southern Queensland, have taken their collaborative research further along the commercialisation pathway with their appearance tonight ...


Living with lions

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created Oct 24, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

There are many historical stories of shepherds and travellers encountering lions, for example the Old Testament contains dozens of tales about attacks on flocks and people by these fierce predators.