Plus, anyone who adopts a cat or kitten from an Ontario SPCA
Animal Centre in November will receive a box of Arm & Hammer Slide ™ Cat Litter — its patented formula means used litter slides right out — while supplies last.
The Brant County SPCA experienced first - hand the importance of being prepared when they were notified they needed to evacuate
their animal centre in February 2018 during extensive flooding in Brantford.
Not exact matches
The mystery of love
in God's creation is nowhere more powerfully revealed than
in this: the sexual attraction which man shares with the
animals is immediate, self -
centred, and gratifying, yet it leads to the possibility of a love which requires commitment and loyalty and
in which physical and emotional gratification become sacraments of the spirit.
The partners
in the dairy zone development project include FrieslandCampina, the international
animal feed conglomerate De Heus, the Wageningen University and Research
Centre, Friesian Agro Consultancy, food consulting company Fresh Studio, the Ha Nam Government, as well as the Dutch Government.
Bacteria found
in humans,
animals and food continue to show resistance to widely used antimicrobials, says the latest report on antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
in bacteria by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European
Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Hunting aside, by the 20th century
animal -
centred bloodsports were mostly out of fashion and banned by law
in most of the English - speaking world.
Centre Forwards — mostly — are selflish
animals who want to score the goal... the
Centre Forward
in OUR SYSTEM needs to be a little selfless and make the right decision between shooting and making the pass — to think of team before self.
We believe compulsory microchipping will help reduce the burden on
animal welfare charities such as Dogs Trust, who have a
centre in Bridgend, and reduce the cost to local authorities of kennelling.
Her inauguration to the Westminster
animal kingdom follows PHammond's decision to move his dogs, Rex and Oscar, into Downing Street, and the more controversial move by chief whip Gavin Williamson, whose tarantula Cronus was at the
centre of a media storm
in recent weeks.
A team of researchers led by the German
Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Leipzig University carried out an experiment to simulate the warming of the soil
in the forest and found out surprisingly: The warmer temperatures have no influence on the feeding activity of the soil
animals.
This study is among several funded under a public - private partnership established
in 2008 between NICHD and the WALTHAM
Centre for Pet Nutrition, a division of Mars Inc., to establish a human -
animal interaction research program to support studies relevant to child development, health, and the therapeutic use of
animals.
Christina Nagel, Christine Aurich and their team from Vetmeduni Vienna's
Centre for Artificial Insemination and Embryo Transfer have now analysed for the first time the efficiency of simulator - based training
in large
animal gynaecology.
Neurologist Malcolm MacLeod of the
Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and his colleagues combed through papers reporting the efficacy of drugs
in eight
animal disease models and checked whether the authors reported four measures that are widely acknowledged to reduce the risk of bias.
«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on
animals, but they have done it
in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the
Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
To date, 500 orangs from around the world have passed through the five rehabilitation
centres in Indonesia and Malaysia, but these can not cope with any more
animals, says Leiman.
«By grouping waterbirds, such as plant - eating birds and fish - eating birds, we showed that the degradation affected a wide range of different plants and
animals in the wetlands; declines
in these waterbirds means their food levels are also falling,» says Professor Kingsford, who is Director of the UNSW
Centre for Ecosystem Science.
A long - shot attempt to block U.K. researchers from creating human -
animal hybrid cells or embryos has ended quickly, with a judge dismissing a new lawsuit filed by the Christian Legal
Centre and the Comment on Reproductive Ethics and ruling that the groups should pay # 20,000
in court costs.
According to Morgan, it faces a lifetime
in captivity at wildlife breeding
centres because it is too risky to release these sought - after
animals back into the wild.
As David Yáñez, a CSIC researcher at the Zaidin Experimental Research
Centre in Granada (southern Spain) explains, «Up until now, no - one had described the mode of action of a compound which can repeatedly reduce (by 30 %) methane production
in animals without any risks, either to the
animal's health, or to their productivity.»
Members of the team are the Department of Wildlife Diseases research of the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
in Berlin (IZW) headed by Alex Greenwood, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Center for Research
in Animal Microbiology (CENID - INIFAP) among other institutions
in Mexico and the
Centre for Geogenetics of the Natural History Museum of Denmark.
«Our study exemplifies the utility of looking beyond phylogenetic criteria alone when conducting risk assessment for emerging RNA viruses and the need to include functional, ecologic, and pathogenic analyses of
animal reservoirs,» says Jan Felix Drexler, M.D., the study's corresponding author and a professor of medicine at the Institute of Virology at the University of Bonn Medical
Centre in Germany.
His adviser at the time,
animal genomicist Martien Groenen of Wageningen University and Research
Centre in the Netherlands, had sequenced these genomes and had gathered additional, albeit less complete, genetic data from 600 other wild and domesticated pigs as part of another study.
«Now that we have a better understanding of how an
animal is built we can get some way closer to knowing how the human body works
in health and disease,» says John Sulston, director of the Sanger
Centre at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridgeshire, England.
In response, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), and the Wellcome Trust commissioned the new review, which asked all 72 researchers who had received funding for research with NHPs between 1997 and 2006 to answer a questionnaire about the outcomes of their wor
In response, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the National
Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of
Animals in Research (NC3Rs), and the Wellcome Trust commissioned the new review, which asked all 72 researchers who had received funding for research with NHPs between 1997 and 2006 to answer a questionnaire about the outcomes of their wor
in Research (NC3Rs), and the Wellcome Trust commissioned the new review, which asked all 72 researchers who had received funding for research with NHPs between 1997 and 2006 to answer a questionnaire about the outcomes of their work.
Meanwhile, researchers at the Canadian Science
Centre for Human and
Animal Health
in Winnipeg have detected the virus
in birds from southern Ontario.
«
Animal welfare
in research settings has made such great strides that the arguments of antivivisection groups have become largely baseless,» said Jan Schnupp, professor of neuroscience at the University of Oxford
in the United Kingdom,
in a statement relayed by the Science Media
Centre in London.
In recent years the tiny nerve
centres that drive the grinding motions with which the
animals» stomachs digest -LSB-...]
By HELEN GAVAGHAN During the 1980s, the debate over
animal experiments has polarised, sometimes drowning out the voices
in the
centre.
The researchers, also from the ARC
Centre of Excellence
in Plant Energy Biology and
in collaboration with the University's School of Medicine, have discovered that a protein known to control salt balance
in animals works the same way
in plants.
University of Adelaide researchers
in Australia, supported by the Invasive
Animals Co-operative Research
Centre, have developed a model of the likelihood of establishment of alien species of snakes and other reptiles if they are introduced to the wild, accidentally or on purpose.
But psychologists at the
Centre for Research
in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) at the University of Exeter are now countering this folklore, having shown that the species is actually frightened of new and unfamiliar objects, rather than attracted to them.
«Drugs that specifically target PGE2 pathways have already been developed and tested
in animals, so our results have excellent potential for clinical translation, not only for the treatment of influenza, but other viral respiratory infections that interact with similar host immune pathways,» says senior study author Divangahi, who is also a member of the Infectious and Immunity Axis at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health
Centre (RI - MUHC).
In addition to preserving the genetic diversity of endangered species, the
centre will act as a resource for researchers who are developing IVF and other breeding technologies to assist endangered
animals.
Study co-author, Dr Neil Gostling from the University of Southampton, said: «The improvement
in CT scanning, both
in the instrumentation, at Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute
in Switzerland where we scanned or even the µ - VIS
Centre at Southampton, along with access for research of this kind, allows us to make inroads into understanding the biology and the ecology of
animals long dead.
In collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), researchers in the UPV / EHU's «Nutrition and Obesity» Group, which belongs to the Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn) of the Carlos III Institute of Health, have observed in animal models that its administration reduces the build - up of body fat, which could reduce the risk of developing other diseases like diabete
In collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), researchers
in the UPV / EHU's «Nutrition and Obesity» Group, which belongs to the Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn) of the Carlos III Institute of Health, have observed in animal models that its administration reduces the build - up of body fat, which could reduce the risk of developing other diseases like diabete
in the UPV / EHU's «Nutrition and Obesity» Group, which belongs to the Spanish Biomedical Research
Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn) of the Carlos III Institute of Health, have observed in animal models that its administration reduces the build - up of body fat, which could reduce the risk of developing other diseases like diabete
in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn) of the Carlos III Institute of Health, have observed
in animal models that its administration reduces the build - up of body fat, which could reduce the risk of developing other diseases like diabete
in animal models that its administration reduces the build - up of body fat, which could reduce the risk of developing other diseases like diabetes.
After killing the
animals they examined gene activity
in the hypothalamus, the brain's «reward»
centre.
«Cadmium is a very important industrial metal, but exposure to it results
in accumulation
in the food chain, leading to toxicity
in animals and humans,» says project leader Dr Christopher McDevitt, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the University's Research
Centre for Infectious Diseases.
IDMIT is an infrastructure for preclinical research
in infectious diseases and immunology which is certified ISO9001 and which includes 1) A large
animal facility with capacity to host NHP
in BSL2 and BSL3 containment, 2) State - of - the - art laboratories for cell biology, immunology, molecular biology, flow cytometry and mass cytometry (CyTof), cell - sorting and confocal microscopy
in BSL3 containment; 3) A biological resources
centre with high storage capacity; 4) Highly innovative technologies for
in vivo imaging of large
animals in BSL2 and BSL3 containment, including a two - photon microscope, a PET - CT facility, and several optic based technologies (fibered endo - microscopy, near infra - red imaging).
Heiko Woith and colleagues at the GFZ German Research
Centre for Geosciences say scientists must determine whether the link between the
animal behavior and the earthquake is based on clearly defined rules (such as the
animal's distance from earthquakes of a certain magnitude), whether the
animal behavior has ever been observed and not followed by an earthquake, whether there is a statistical testing hypothesis
in place to examine the evidence, and whether the
animal population is a healthy, among other questions.
The genetic investigation of giraffe began when Julian Fennessy of Giraffe Conservation Foundation
in Namibia approached Axel Janke, a geneticist at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research
Centre and Goethe University
in Germany, about five years ago to ask for help with genetic testing of the
animal.
Applicants are expected to adhere to the general principles and best practice outlined
in the guidance provided by the HPRA and are advised to consult the ARRIVE guidelines (Animal Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments) produced by the UK National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs
in the guidance provided by the HPRA and are advised to consult the ARRIVE guidelines (
Animal Research: Reporting
In Vivo Experiments) produced by the UK National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs
In Vivo Experiments) produced by the UK National
Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of
Animals in Research (NC3Rs
in Research (NC3Rs).
That effort has been helped by extra funding from the Australian government (Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts) to look at pheromones and spawning - site choice
in toads; from the Invasive
Animals Co-Operative Research
Centre to explore effects of parasites on toads
in Queensland; and from the Western Australians Department of Environment & Conservation, to understand frog and toad parasites at the toad invasion front.
The Czech
Centre of Phenogenomics (CCP) of the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., part of the BIOCEV project, announces open positions of: — unit head for cardiovascular phenotyping laboratory — technicians
in animal facility — technicians
in molecular biology — technician for transgenic module For more details about respective positions
The Czech
Centre for Phenogenomics and the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the ASCR, v.v.i., would like to invite you to a seminar «Gait Analysis
in Animal Models of Human Disorders» presented by Dr. Thomas G. Hampton (Mouse Specifics, Inc., Boston, USA).
The Czech
Centre for Phenogenomics is a large research infrastructure unique
in combining genetic engineering capabilities, advanced phenotyping and imaging modalities, specific pathogen free (SPF)
animal housing and husbandry, as well as cryopreservation and archiving, all
in one central location — at BIOCEV campus.
The Science Media
Centre asked experts to comment on the release of the House of Lords» Select Committee report on the use of
animals in scientific procedures.
This core technology facility, which is shared between the two
centres, IFOM and IEO, offers advanced experimental methodologies
in nanotechnology (DNA arrays), bioinformatics, robotics, proteomics, structural biology and
animal models.
In a laboratory experiment, scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz
Centre for Ocean Research Kiel showed that younger
animals already eat less and grow more slowly at only slightly elevated carbon dioxide concentrations.
Animal Research: Reporting of
In Vivo Experiments Guidelines published by the UK National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Researc
In Vivo Experiments Guidelines published by the UK National
Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of
Animals in Researc
in Research.
Reactions to the news that a building firm are pulling out of a new
animal research
centre contract
in Oxford.