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UK Records Increase in Animal Testing

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The growth in animal experiments reflects an expansion in biomedical research in Britain and is driven by advances in genetics and the development of new drugs that must be tested rigorously in monkeys before they are allowed to be given to humans.

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How to Identify Food Intolerances in Pets

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Food allergies and food intolerances affect our pets much the same way they strike humans. Others develop food allergies or intolerances due to an auto-immune disease, where dogs, like humans, will react to foods that are typically normal for consumption (e.g., milk in lactose intolerant humans ).

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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Many of the great debates over human behavior, those related to things such as race or gender, are muddled and messy because plasticity is ignored. Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. Presumably the humans keep away the predators.

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Workplace Wellness Can Deliver a Healthy ROI

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Workers were offered free health assessments, including a blood sample tested for conditions such as diabetes and high cholesterol. This ignores one fundamental tenet: To be human is to be emotional. They also filled out surveys about habits such as exercise, smoking and diet. Using incentives wisely.

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Why do birds living near Chernobyl have smaller brains?

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The hypothesis being tested is that high ambient levels of radiation will cause greater production of reactive oxygen in birds, which in turn will stress neural tissue growth processes resulting in smaller brains. So, two body size measurements and one brain size measurement were taken on a sample of birds.

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