Sentences with phrase «animal and human populations»

World Vets» work addresses both animal and human health issues by developing sustainable veterinary aid programs to improve animal and human populations in 24 countries.

Faculty members in this group are actively engaged in studying the frequency, distribution, and control of diseases in both animal and human populations.

Wildlife species are the only carriers of the disease, with occasional cases affecting domestic animal and human populations

We truly care about what is best for your pet, and have taken steps to best ensure his / her health, as well as the health of the animal and human populations we live amongst.

Not exact matches

«The Red Triangle includes roughly 200 miles of coastline.But it's not the beachgoers and surfers that attract great whites to these waters.It's the rich population of other mammals like elephant seals, harbor seals, sea lions, and sea otters.Great whites prefer to prey on these animals instead of humans.

That did not happen: there is no geological record of a world - wide flood, there is not enough diversity to regenerate the population we currently, there is not enough water to cover the earth to the height of Everest, the logistics of retrieving and returning animals to the then - unknown Americas, Australia, etc. were staggeringly difficult, managing the animals on the Ark was impossible — a few humans keeping predators from their prey, cleaning the waste, etc., pretty much all life on earth would have been killed, etc. etc..

If someone believes in the creation story to the extent that they reject scientific inquiry, they're not well - equipped to conduct the research and do the work needed in the future to benefit and improve the condition of and ensure the survival of the earth and its human and animal populations.

When humans discourage biodiversity, they undermine natural immunity and leave the animal population open to new and fast - spreading diseases.

Aggression toward humans and native animal species, the depletion of submerged vegetation in aquatic ecosystems and degraded water quality due to droppings are among the negative impacts of mute swan populations, environmental experts say.

Her findings, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology on June 5, could help wildlife managers target their efforts to prevent outbreaks and potentially help public health officials prevent disease in human populations as well.

Another great example is tuberculosis among elephants moving through populations now that the fences have come down around parks in South Africa and moving through human and domestic animal populations that are infected with tuberculosis or who could be infected with tuberculosis.

«Future researchers should continue to explore the human - animal bond for older adult populations, particularly for those with cognitive, physical, and financial limitations.

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

It may one day be possible to address questions about how and why tool use arises in animal populations, and about the extent to which that kind of behaviour is — or isn't — uniquely human, he adds.

The study found that less than one third of the 175 parks and reserves examined are currently conserving lions at more than 50 % of their «carrying capacity» — an ecological term for the natural population levels animals reach if human threats are minimal.

Results of research on the voles, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in Montreal last month, raises questions about the full effect of radiation on animal populations and on humans.

Looking at indicators of population size and density (such as the number of stone tools, animal remains, and total number of sites), he concluded that modern humans — who may have had a population of only a few thousand when they first arrived on the continent — came to outnumber the Neanderthals by a factor of ten to one.

Since the animals were first listed as endangered, the human population of Florida has more than tripled, and efforts to help the Florida's state animal recover have had limited success

Man is the most adaptable of animals and succeeds by the variety of habitats he can occupy; the elephant comes next and is so successful in occupying different African habitats that he now comes bang up against an expanding human population.

The use of cell surface markers to isolate specific cell populations is one common method for separating cells; however, isolating live cells based on their RNA expression is a powerful new way enabling the study of small cell niches in nongenetically modified animal models and human tissue.

Human population has doubled in the past 35 years; in the same period, the number of invertebrate animals — such as beetles, butterflies, spiders and worms — has decreased by 45 percent.

Genetics is also important for understanding how research scales up — or fails to — and translates from animal models to humans and among different human populations, says Henry Bryant, a research fellow at Lilly Research Laboratories in Indianapolis.

«We have animal literature, which shows direct links between exposure and adverse health outcomes, the limited human studies, and the fact that 90 to 100 percent of the population has measurable levels of these compounds in their bodies,» said John Meeker, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead author.

The illicit trade in wildlife and wildlife parts is now a multi-billion industry decimating iconic animal populations, undermining security across nations, and threatening ecosystems, food security, human health, and livelihoods among the world's poorest communities.

Behaviors that evolved as survival mechanisms to ensure that an animal feeds itself become inconvenient and potentially detrimental side effects in industrialized human populations where cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity, rather than starvation, pose greater risks to long - term survival.

This may be observed in many natural phenomena: weather, cardiac rhythm, models for population growth, economic data, some chemical reactions, or the voice of humans and animals.

West Nile virus has wreaked havoc mostly on bird populations, but humans and a variety of other animals can become infected as well when bitten by a mosquito that previously dined on an infected bird.

«Parasitic eye infection poses significant threat to UK dogs, warn experts: And may have implications for other UK animal, human populations.»

The treatment of Asian elephants is a huge issue of animal welfare: and, as the forests of Asia diminish and the human population grows (India anticipates 1.6 billion people by 2050 AD) the working animals could well outnumber the rest.

The dwindling animal populations rebounded as human industry receded, and the periodic fluctuation of wolf and moose numbers began anew, continuing to this day.

This is a shame, because stress and suffering in individual wild animals due to the encroachment of humans is contributing to the demise of whole populations.

But with no evidence of a large asymptomatic population so far, Kellam and his colleagues favor a second scenario: MERS evolved and diversified in animals and then infected humans on multiple occasions.

«What's particularly noteworthy about this work is we were able to present an integrative link from genetics, cell - and animal - based experiments, all the way up to clinical outcomes in large human population,» Liu said.

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Here we review emerging evidence that restriction of dietary advanced glycation end - products significantly reduces total systemic load and insulin resistance in animals and humans in diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, healthy populations and dementia.

They help protect areas such as mangrove forests and seagrass beds that act as nurseries for marine animals, as well as human coastal populations.

Humans have been altering animals and plants through selective breeding for millennia; but, because these changes typically reduce the capacity for survival and reproduction in the wild, they do not spread to wild populations.

AST - OPC1, an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell population derived from human embryonic stem cells, has been shown in preclinical testing in animals and in vitro to have three potentially reparative functions that address the complex pathologies observed in demyelination disorders, such as spinal cord injuries, and multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including multiple sclerosis and white matter stroke.

BinAB is toxic to mosquito larvae but harmless to humans and other animals and is already used to control mosquito populations in the United States, Thailand, Germany and China.

The complex viromes of different human as well as wild and domesticated animal populations are also characterized to allow future changes associated with disease outbreak to be rapidly identified.

«We can mimic those situations in animal models to demonstrate how certain biochemical markers, such as cortisol, may be elevated in those animals and that may also be elevated in our human population,» which may illustrate environmentally induced epigenetic changes that cause an elevated risk of colorectal cancer, Winn said.

Utilizing data collected from human clinical populations, Dr. Ressler and his team identify genetic traits and neural processes that may contribute to the underlying causes of these illnesses and provide novel targets for animal models research.

I primarily use genomic approaches to address these, and over the last few years my group has used large - scale population genomics to identify the global origin and routes of spread of many human and animal pathogens.

First approved in 1995 to prevent raccoon rabies, it is used worldwide to protect wild animals and, indirectly, neighboring human populations.

The book advocated the use of cereals and legumes rather than animal protein products for the American diet because it assumes that cereal grains fed to animals could be more effectively used to feed the human population.

Cyclic aldehydes have also been shown to cause toxic shock in animals through gastric damage, which is consistent with the rise in immune problems and gastrointestinal - related diseases in the human population.

re: ``... and / or those who use sustainable farming methods...» Since there is no way to farm animals in a sustainable way for the current human population (watch the movie Cowspiracy to understand why), that idea goes out the window too.

Humans in some populations have been dying of heart disease and cancer for a long time too (while other populations avoid these diseases by eating extremely small amounts of eggs and other animal products).

Thus, universal characteristics of preagricultural human diets are helpful in understanding how the recent Western diet may subject modern populations to chronic disease: Before the development of farming and the domestication of livestock practices, dietary choices would have been necessarily limited to minimally processed wild plant and animal foods.

Once again we get an animal population where all the species work together instead of eating each other, and there is even the possibility of interspecies sex, when a human's house cat falls in love with Stella the skunk (Wanda Sykes).