The incidence of breast cancer in dogs is three times
higher than in humans, and higher than the incidence in any other companion animal.
Overall antibiotic use is higher in food - producing
animals than in humans, but the situation varies across countries and classes of antibiotics.
It found that the rabbit genome is quite variable from one individual to the next, much more
so than in humans.
These seizures are sometimes referred to as «grand mal,» though this term is used less commonly in veterinary medicine
than in human medicine.
[In babies fed only formula, NEC occurred 6 - 10 times more often
than in human milk alone.
The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in
mice than in humans, he says.
A 30 - metre layer of salt discovered beneath the Dead Sea reveals drought worse
than any in human history — and it could happen again.
But new research, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that genetics dictate the organization of a chimp's brain much more
rigidly than in humans, allowing the environment to play a larger role in our neural development.
This was the most likely reason that ancestral element detection in mouse was so much
lower than in human, as the genome - wide substitution rate in mouse is approximately twice that of human.
Either kitty - strokes are milder
than in humans because of differences in the brain structure and function, or cats simply recover faster and more completely than humans.
I don't doubt for a moment that a Pomeranian, a Maine Coon and a stray cat, as well as any other living being, is animated by spirit, but of a different
quality than in humans.
Digestion of commercially prepared formula is slower than breast milk because part of the protein has a tougher
curd than in human milk.
«Our study shows that epigenetic drift, which is characterized by gains and losses in DNA methylation in the genome over time, occurs more rapidly in mice than in monkeys and more rapidly in
monkeys than in humans,» explains Jean - Pierre Issa, MD, Director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research at LKSOM, and senior investigator on the new study.
The decreased levels of neutralizing Abs to TMAdV in the researcher (1 ∶ 32) and a family member (1 ∶ 8) relative to those in infected titi monkeys (up to > 1 ∶ 512) are consistent with a recent study showing much higher levels of neutralizing antibodies in
chimpanzees than in humans with adenovirus infections, possibly due to more robust adenovirus - specific T - cell responses in humans than in monkeys [45].
Chlamy's genetic «instruction book» has about 15,000 genes, which is about 8,000 fewer
genes than in humans.
Trillions of bacteria live in the human gut --- they account for ten times more
cells than in the human body — and they play vital roles in our metabolism and health.
Outside of Sylvia, none of the characters has any real presence or personality in a movie that takes greater interest in shots of pretty
flowers than in the human beings onscreen, and in which nearly every major plot turn is the result of blind chance.
Tumors more commonly seen in dogs and cats
than in humans include a family of tumors with the «last name» sarcoma.
Since the development of this problem in dogs is much more
complex than in humans, and they experience different degrees of rupture (partial or complete), the canine condition is referred to as «cranial cruciate ligament disease» (CrCLD).
Grain allergies in particular are more common in dogs
than in humans since they haven't spent the past few thousand years relying on wheat, rice, and corn to supply most of their daily calories.
Rabbits have a small body mass compared to the surface area of the skin which allows heat to be released even more
quickly than in humans.
It's no wonder, then, that while a dog's brain is only one - tenth the size of a human brain, the portion controlling smell is 40 times
larger than in humans.
In fact, according to the Organic Trade Association, the organic segment of the pet industry is growing three times more
than in the human market.
TP: I think there's a really important quality in animation or cartoons, where you can posit yourself more
easily than in another human or photograph.
His new work is based on the disconnect between modern society and how alien human beings can seem when they are more interested in their techie
gadgets than in human connection.
«To better understand the universe, I started becoming interested in what I call the architecture of science,» says Leah Beeferman, whose largely abstract drawings and animations find inspiration in «structures and instruments» rather
than in human space flight.