Changes in Australian ecosystems tied to arrival of exotic animals
...st two years. Miller believes the introduction of rabbits about 150 years ago was a major contributor to the demise of grasslands in the region. The emu eggshells were biochemically analyzed for two different carbon isotopes that reflect the birds diet, said Miller, also a professor in CU-Boulders geolo...DNA deletion offers new evidence of mammals' origins
... to answer a more recent question: How closely are rabbits and guinea pigs related to rodents? The results in...ts, including the guinea pig, belong together. And rabbits probably do go with rodents." On the other hand, a group known as Archonta should be split apart ac...UC Davis science newstips Feb 01
...roteins. Similar repeats are found in animals from rabbits to silkworms. In 1995, Schmid proposed that Alu repeats are activated when cells are damaged in some way, for example by heat, toxins or lack of essential nutrients. The messages produced by the Alu repeats would help repair cellular damage, by cont...A first: A (nearly) complete road map for the evolution of placental mammals
...groups of animals, such as how closely rodents and rabbits are related. The UF study took a step back. Instea...ample, long argued that the orders for rodents and rabbits were closely related, a view only recently adopted by molecular evolutionists. "There is a molecular...Unusual virus identified in aborted calf
...ly disease that has killed hundreds of millions of rabbits around the world, in some cases up to 95 percent o...rough mutation, he said, or was perhaps brought to rabbits through the most common reservoir for many caliciviral strains, marine animals.......ough nutrients to support smaller species, such as rabbits and hares. Likewise, dry areas do not produce enough total vegetation to support larger species, such as caribou, giraffes, buffalo and elephants. The most diverse populations of plant-eating mammals are found in areas of moderate rainfall, such as t...Tyrannosaurus rex probably could not run fast, scientists say
... and locomotion. When small animals move quickly - rabbits jump, monkeys climb, birds fly, cheetahs sprint - they endure high physical forces for their body weights. Such forces are biomechanically impossible for large animals. Aquatic animals, such as whales, are less limited than land animals, such as elep...New material to patch injured knee ligaments
... in Pennsylvania tried patching up MCL injuries in rabbits with the material derived from pig gut. The patched ligaments were stronger than those left to heal by themselves, Musahl told the Engineering Tissue Growth International Conference last week in Pittsburgh. "We have clearly shown that the quality of ...Hebrew University professor designs medication to lower recurrence of cardiovascular disease
...has been used to successfully treat rats, pigs and rabbits thus far. A company has obtained the license to develop and test the medication, in cooperation with Prof. Golomb. It has raised significant funds for this and will begin clinical trials this year.......to deliver genes to the brain. They injected three rabbits with the bubble mixture and focused an ultrasound ...rent spots in their brains. Then they injected the rabbits with a modified herpes virus- a common tool in gene therapy. The virus reached the brain areas on w......s released in Australia half century ago. But many rabbits have become resistant, and less lethal strains hav...ctious but non-lethal strain that should give most rabbits no more than a fever for a few days. Peacock says if the virus could sterilise 70 to 80 per cent of ...New antibacterial coating may prolong contact lens life
...nd in soil, some plants and many foods we eat. The rabbits showed no ill effects after two consecutive months of wearing the coated lenses, according to Ted Reid, Ph.D., of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas, who presented the findings at the 224th national meeting of the American...Personal body part grown in a dish
...engineering, major parts of the penises of several rabbits have been replaced with segments grown in a lab fr... and endothelial cells from penises of each of the rabbits destined to receive the implants. These cells were grown separately at first, and then added to the ...New studies advance scientific knowledge of drinking water disinfection byproducts
...orbed from the drinking water provided to rats and rabbits and whether there were detectable levels of either DBA or BDCM present in the maternal blood, placentas, fetuses, pups, or maternal milk. No quantifiable concentrations of BDCM were found, suggesting that BDCM is rapidly degraded or metabolized in t...Pain-relief drug may prevent lung problems, blindness in premature infants
...ues at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center found in rabbits that Cox-2 inhibitors promoted elevated levels of crucial growth-inducing chemicals that help lungs and tissues grow. These increases occurred despite the fact that, at the same time, the newborns were given oxygen to assist breathing. Oxygen typical...Non-invasive imaging technique detects plaques beginning to form in vessels
...he development of plaques, according to a study in rabbits led by Washington University School of Medicine in...ectors and gadolinium into 13 rabbits. Four of the rabbits had been fed normal diets and nine had been fed high-cholesterol diets for about 80 days. They then ...UC Berkeley scientists detail neural circuit that lets eye detect directional motion
...am Levick noticed that some cells in the retina of rabbits fired only when a light moved through the eye's field of view. A stationary light generated minimal response from these cells except when blinking on or off. In further experiments at UC Berkeley and, later, Cambridge University, Barlow showed that s...News tips from the American Society for Microbiology
...HERPES A compound produced by the immune cells of rabbits appears to block the spread of herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) and could be used as a topical microbicide against the disease, say researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the University of California, Los Angeles. They report their findin...JCI table of contents, March 3, 2003
...unctional, and pathologicaspects of the disease in rabbits and mice. Their results also suggest thatwhile plasmid transfer induces only transient expression of VEGF-C, once thelymphatic connection is re-established, drainage function can be maintained. CONTACT: Douglas W. Losordo St. Elizabeth's Medical Cent......exico. Insects, he writes, helped curtail unwanted rabbits in Australia. In 1950, 91 years after the intentional importation of this foreign species, authorities introduced a virus fatal to the rapidly reproducing rabbits. Mosquitoes and black flies quickly spread the virus, wiping out 90 percent of the de...