Research News - Animals

Companion Animals

• Kindness: the new pet pain relief
• Canine Epilepsy
• Matters of the heart
• Running on the Spot
• Searching for a calming effect
• A nasty canine disease re-emerges
• Plugging the leak
• Boning up on cancer treatments
• A deadly disease lurks in the hearts of many Doberman Pinschers

Equine

• Cell Therapy Targets Cartilage Defects
• Checking animal welfare every step of the way
• Carrying it forward
• Skin detectives
• When testing fails the athletes
• Clearing the air about garlic
• Slinging away the blues

  Livestock

• Insight into light and reproduction
• Flocking to animals' defence - Feeding helpful bacteria boosts chicken immunity
• Omega-3 chicken about to hatch
• The meat of the matter: Animal scientists hit on a genetic link behind beef tenderness
• Research findings detail new measures to reduce animal stress
• Barley to the rescue
• Rounding up the resisters
• Nosing out barnyard smells
• Making water safer
• The wages of fear
• Livestock takes the lead
• Making a clean breast of it
• Next on the transgenic list: production
• Keeping farms TB-free
• Some ups and downs of maternity
• Growing up easier for pacified piglets
• Animal Care Assessment
• Public Perception of Farming



Other

• Feeding the ideal bird
• Research on Avian Influenza
• Pests and Climate Change
• Insects: Indicators of a changing environment
• Attacking aphids au naturel
• Warming up to aquaculture
• Martens used to indicate forest sustainability
• Improved growth rate is essential if more farm-raised charr is going to find its way to consumers
• Great Lakes salmon need a lifeline

Archives

• U of G researchers ensure a leaner little piggy goes to market
• One step closer to robo-pork

• Frozen semen is a hot topic among horse breeders
• Periodic paralysis -a mystery no more
• Improved reproduction thanks to relaxin
• Solving an equine enigma

• How to lick pain
• The roots of dairy genetics
• Genetics in a changing environment
• Shedding light on how embryo damage occurs

• Zoologists teach trumpeter swans to migrate
• Rare bird leads researcher to Mozambique

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