It is widely known among experts that smaller animals have a higher metabolic rate, which means that they essentially have to consume more food in order to be able to function. A famous example in this sense is the hummingbird, which has to consume several times its own weight in pollen each day in order to be able t... |
24 October 2009
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Autoimmune diseases are among the most dangerous kind in the world. They manifest themselves when the body's own immune system begins to attack the central nervous system (CNS), inflicting severe damage, and eventually leading to death. Multiple sclerosis is one good example. Although the barriers that exist bet... |
15 October 2009
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Investigators from the Jewish General Hospital Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, and the McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, may be on the verge of one of the greatest discoveries of the decade – a cure for the devastating disease multiple sclerosis (MS). The team managed to devise a method of ensu... |
12 August 2009
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For a long time, animal rights activists have argued that testing all sorts of new cosmetic products or drugs on apes, dogs and other species is unethical, and have also lobbied for the practice to be abolished. Rather than criticizing the activists, like others in the industry, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institut... |
26 June 2009
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