Old World rats and mice

Food Allergies On the Rise Throughout the past fifteen years the amount of people effected by food allergies has concerningly increased. In a research release in 2013 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 1997 and 2011 there has been a fifty percent increase in food allergies among children under the age of eighteen. Every three minutes a food allergy reaction sends someone to the ER. Why we are not worried? Research estimates up to 15 millions of Americans have food…

Stem cell research has been a topic of interest since 1956. In that year, the first bone marrow transplant was performed by Dr. E Donnall Thomas in the state of New York. The patient had received radiotherapy and then received a bone marrow transplant from an identical twin that then cured the patient’s leukemia. Four years later, Researchers had made extreme advancements in the discovery of bone marrow and its contents. They found there is at least two kinds of stem cells that are present in…

attained to immense contrasts in structure and capacity from single wild species: e.g. the Great Dane and Chihuahua pooch mixtures from the wolf. Besides, "unnatural" half and halves - i.e. making breeds crosswise over species boundaries - were made in old times. Case in point the donkey, a cross between an ass or male jackass and a female horse has been utilized as a pack creature as a part of Europe for no less than 3,000 years; however Mules are generally sterile…

simple necessity to us—but at the risk of our health, and ultimately, our livelihood. Obesity is the fastest-spreading cause of death in America, and this does not come as much of a surprise when one considers the cheap accessibility of food in the world around us.…

targeting diseases that aren’t well treated by existing therapies. This is a new tool to target and treat disease” states Nessan Bermingham, CEO of Intellia Therapeutics, Inc (Rockoff). CRISPR technology is currently being used to genetically engineer mice and other animals so that they have human-like diseases that researchers can study. This technology is allowing the study of Amyotrophic Lateral sclerosis which, up until now, has lacked good animal models (Rockoff). Researchers, while…

Animal Cruelty “Animal cruelty is ignored every day.” Thomas Gray once wrote, “ignorance is bliss.” Every day animals are beaten, neglected, abused, or even just struggling to survive. Animals are sometimes left in unsanitary conditions with no food water. Animals may have little hope while living from day to day without the compassion animals deserve. Some of them are lucky to get rescued, and are given the chances to see how great humans and life can be, but others are not as lucky to get the…

allow the seeds to be planted regardless of any evidence that may be presented claiming or providing proof that the seeds are harmful or unhealthy for any consumer. This is the type of sweet heart deal that many companies across the country and even world-wide would savor. However, this sweet heart deal also speaks to the political power (and potential corruption thereof) that some companies have over the government officials elected by the people to protect their interests. According to many…

So the usual m ove is to find some other difference which is thought to significantly distinguish humans from animals. The most frequently cited and promising candidate: rationality or the sense of onese lf as a continu ing bein g. Hum ans, it is said , can rea son an d think; an imals (it is presumed) canno t. Moreover, this ability to reason becomes reflected in the human's ability to see herself as a continuing creature as a being which has a past and will have a future. Let us grant for a…

vitamin D), antioxidants (e.g. vitamin E), and mediators of cell signaling and regulators of cell and tissue growth and differentiation (e.g. vitamin A). The largest number of vitamins (e.g. B complex vitamins) function as precursors for enzyme cofactor bio-molecules (coenzymes), that help act as catalysts and substrates in metabolism. When acting as part of a catalyst, vitamins are bound to enzymes and are called prosthetic groups. For example, biotin is part of enzymes involved in making…

potted slug. He had not been as comfortable as this since being egg bound, prior to his birth or was it hatching, he remember that time clearly, his Mum come Dad had deposited a number of eggs on a fragment of cardboard from, what he now realized was an old DEFENDER box, on the fragment was written AND SLUG BAIT. and beneath it the end of another sentence, YOUR GARDEN SLUG…