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Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you think. A classic example of phoresy, the remora uses a modified fin that ...
Meet the longest living animal on Earth, whose lifespan stretches back thousands of years! More ancient than Shakespeare, ...
The 27,000-square-foot center will serve as a hub for advanced livestock reproduction research, education, and outreach, ...
The week that the Texas A&M system dedicates another new operation on the RELLIS campus, the system announces groundbreaking takes place on their next project. May 6th was the official opening of an ...
So do developers of organoids and computer simulations. Drug development has been inching away from animal testing for several years, spurred in part by the 2022 FDA Modernization Act 2.0. But ...
Both changes in cell shape and diversity among cells affect morphogenesis, or the development of tissues and organs ... then ...
Texas A&M University debuted its $13 million state-of-the-art Animal Reproductive Biotech Center, located at the college’s ...
The Animal Reproductive Biotechnology Center will increase understandings of ruminant reproduction and work to address reproductive issues.
The FDA made a historic decision to phase out animal testing and switch to human-relevant methods in drug testing and development. Many say animal tests are simply too costly, take too long and ...
Just in time for tick season, new research is shining a light on how animals develop resistance to tick bites, which points toward the possibility of developing more effective vaccines against the ...
Researchers fed the ticks on the animals at three life stages—larvae, nymphs and adults—and compared tick feeding, development and reproduction on animals that had been previously infested by ...
This suggests that emotional sensitivity to others emerges early in ape development. In bonobos, younger individuals were more likely to console others and be consoled. In chimpanzees, young males ...