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City rats loyal to their 'hoods, scientists discover

Scientists find city rats are loyal to their 'hoods'

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the rat race of life, one thing is certain: there's no place like home. Now, a study just released in Molecular Ecology finds the same is true for rats. Although inner city rodents appear to roam freely ...





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Bush rats fight back

Bush rats fight back

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sydney's native bush rats were unintended victims of a campaign to exterminate foreign black rats during a plague epidemic in 1900, according to new research by scientists who plan to reintroduce ...


Plague on their house, but bush rats fight back

Plague on their house, but bush rats fight back

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sydney's native bush rats were unintended victims of a campaign to exterminate foreign black rats during a plague epidemic in 1900, according to new research by scientists who plan to reintroduce ...


Rodent smoke screen

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Rats passively exposed to tobacco smoke become dependent on nicotine, according to a new study by Dr. Adrie Bruijnzeel and colleagues from the University of Florida in the US. Their findings of how rats' brains respond to ...


Will giving coffee to babies keep them awake as adults?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An F1000 evaluation looks at a Canadian study on how giving caffeine to newborn rats has a long-lasting and detrimental effect on sleep and breathing in adulthood.


Horse whisperers, lion tamers not needed: Scientists find genetic regions that soothe savage beasts

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In what could be a breakthrough in animal breeding, a team of scientists from Germany, Russia and Sweden have discovered a set of genetic regions responsible for animal tameness. This discovery, published in the June 2009 ...


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Scientists make paralyzed rats walk again after spinal-cord injury

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 3

UCLA researchers have discovered that a combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and regular exercise can enable paralyzed rats to walk and even run again while supporting their full weight on a treadmill.


Researchers explore long-term adolescent vulnerability to drugs

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As part of efforts to understand drug abuse, Georgia State University researchers are finding that adolescent rats appear to be less vulnerable to the long-term effects of withdrawal and relapse in certain types of drug use ...


In cancer-ridden rats, loneliness can kill

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Socially isolated female rats develop more tumors -- and tumors of a more deadly type -- than rats living in a social group, according to researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago.


'American Diet' v. Atkins Diet

'American Diet' v. Atkins Diet

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- If people can learn anything from rats, what to eat might be one of the most useful lessons. University of South Florida Professor David Diamond, in the Departments of Psychology, Molecular ...


Study finds reproductive health effects from low doses of bisphenol-A

Medicine & Health / Research

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

New research from North Carolina State University and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) shows significant reproductive health effects in rats that have been exposed to bisphenol-A (BPA) at levels ...



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