Study shows cats can succumb to feline Alzheimer's disease
...ants is also helpful in warding off dementia, so a cat owner sharing healthy meals like chicken and fish with their pet will benefit them both." Dr Frank Gunn-Moore, at the School of Biology, University of St Andrews, said: "This work relied on a team effort with the different skills and expertise from...Blame our evolutionary risk of cancer on body mass
...e don't know that if you put mice in a cage so the cat can't eat them, 90 percent of them will die of cancer," says Gorbunova. Evolution, it seems, has determined which species are allowed to express telomerase in their somatic cells in order to maintain a delicate balance between cells that live long, a...One gene 90 percent responsible for making common parasite dangerous
... recommendation that pregnant women avoid changing cat litter. Cats are commonly infected with the parasite, as are some livestock and wildlife. T. gondii's most infamous relatives are the parasites that cause malaria. Epidemiologists estimate that as many as one in every four humans is infected with T...Stanford discovery may help predict when toxoplasma can be deadly
...ally consuming or inhaling the cysts from infected cat feces, by eating meat from an infected animal - especially pork, lamb or venison - or by drinking contaminated water. Cats are the primary carriers of Toxoplasma, though they rarely exhibit symptoms. The significance of these newly discovered prote...Cluster of journals publish findings on dangerous parasite, Toxoplasma gondii
... medical advice that pregnant women avoid changing cat litter, but it's gaining new attention because of ...ing soil or anything that has come in contact with cat feces. "It's a complex cell just likes ours in terms of metabolism and biochemistry, which makes i...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Dec. 20, 2006
...th threat to the birds." Among commercial dog and cat foods, the percentage of samples positive for aflatoxin varied from study to study, the researchers found. However, even the positive samples generally had levels of aflatoxin below the FDA limit. ARTICLE #1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Mycotoxins in Pet ...Lost dogs found more often than lost cats, study suggests
... call and visit a shelter," said Lord, adding that cat owners waited about three days before contacting a...e on their own. "Many people think that a missing cat just comes home on its own," Lord said. "Most of the lost cats that were recovered in our study did ...Quantum biology -- Powerful computer models reveal key biological mechanism
...rent places at the same time; or that an imaginary cat can be simultaneously dead and alive, as suggested by one famous thought experiment. Until recently, scientists could not apply quantum mechanics to biological systems because of the large numbers of atoms involved. But the latest generation of sup...Be afraid, be very afraid, if you learned to
...cortex; they froze as much in response to seeing a cat or being placed in a large open area as they did to hearing the tone. Furthermore, when the team trained rats with the tone after chemically inactivating the prelimbic cortex, and then tested them drug-free the next day, the rats showed a normal fea...Lifting Chinese tiger trade ban a death sentence for wild tigers say WWF and TRAFFIC
...ffering a lot of 5,000 bottles. And demand for big cat skins as status symbol clothing, particularly in China's Tibetan Autonomous Region, is increasing, with about 3 percent of Tibetans in major towns claiming to own tiger or leopard skin garments even though they knew it was illegal. "In the early 1...New species declared: Clouded leopard on Borneo and Sumatra
... comparable to the differences between other large cat species like lions, tigers, and jaguars. Scientists believe the new species of clouded leopard diverged from the mainland population some 1.4 million years ago. Genetic research results clearly indicate that the clouded leopards of Borneo and Suma...Update on census of wrld's most endangered cat -- female Amur leopard found dead
...he killing of even one female is a huge loss for a cat on the brink of extinction, said Darron Collins, managing director of the Amur-Heilong Program, World Wildlife Fund. This years census showed a desperate situation, with just seven female Amur leopards left in the wild and four rearing cubs. Now weve...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 25, 2007
... April 30, 2007) In This Edition: Commercial cat foods contain less than expected amounts of a key ... ARTICLE #1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Commercial cat foods contain less than expected amounts of a key nutrient Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemist...Cat hair at home poses an allergy risk, particularly for young children
...e earlier papers, according to which contact with cat allergens during the first few months of a child's...from keeping cats, even just repeated contact with cat hair within or outside the parental household increases the frequency of allergic sensitisation on t...Toxoplasmosis infection trick revealed by scientists
...by eating undercooked meat or through contact with cat faeces. It is particularly dangerous for pregnant women, whose foetuses can be infected via the placenta, and those with a weakened immune system, such as people infected with HIV. In severe cases, toxoplasmosis can cause damage to the brain and eyes...Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles
... evolution (2aAB1), and the notable features of 36 cat species' middle ears, which may provide clues on the evolutionary pressures on them (2aAB4). LISTENING TO MUSCLE NOISE Muscles make noise. For example, you can hear the sound of the masseter muscle--a jaw muscle used in chewing food-by propping ...New bacterium discovered -- related to cause of trench fever
...rium identified about 10 years ago as the cause of cat scratch disease: Bartonella henselae, which infect...ered that the Bartonella henselae bacterium causes cat scratch disease, an infection that causes swollen lymph nodes and fever after a cat scratches its ow...Wolves of Alaska became extinct 12,000 years ago, scientists report
...s short-faced bears, she said. The saber-toothed cat and other large mammals became extinct about 10,000 to 11,000 years ago when their prey disappeared due to factors that included human hunting and dramatic global warming at the end of the Pleistocene, Van Valkenburgh said. Prior to the new researc...