A film was released in 1972 with the name 'Ben' which was about the friendship between a lonely boy and a rat named Ben. Michael Jackson's song with the same name 'Ben' was written for the same film. " Following...
We know about Dengue Fever, West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease - but have you heard of Leishmaniasis Disease, Chagas Disease and/or Chikungunya Virus? Probably not, unless you've been to places outside of the U.S....
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Contrary to previous studies pregnant women gets their brains rewired to cope with motherhood — and their intelligence soars when the tots are born. Tests on rats showed mums become braver and faster at finding food. And the increased ability could curb...
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A rodent is likely to ruin 10 times as much food as it eats, by contaminating it with their urine, droppings, and fur. If you're wondering how big the problem is, the US Department of Agriculture estimates more than $US2 billion in feed is destroyed by rodents each year. "
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"Researchers at Tokyo University managed to turn off the receptors in a mouse's brain that react to the scent of its main predator.
They wanted to prove that fear is genetically programmed and not, as is commonly...
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In 'Popular NYC Eatery Shut Down for Rodents' ( via Associated Press) the New York Times announces the closing of Serendipity 3 due to an unwelcome presence, rodents.
As in the days of Adam & Eve, an apple is responsible for a modern day sex related controversy. Greenpeace is claiming that Apple's I-Phone contains toxins that could interfere with the development of a...
""It's been a marvelous honor for the people working in the lab as well as the university," 70-year-old Mario Capecchi of the United States told AFP.
He shared the prize with compatriot Oliver Smithies, 82, and Britain's Martin Evans, 66, for their discoveries on how to...
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I think there's something in the cheese..."Police were called to break up a weekend fight among a rowdy group of teenage girls at the family-themed pizza restaurant, Chuck E. Cheese.
The more than a dozen...
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Fifteen years after the end of Mozambique's civil war, unexploded ordinance continues to pockmark the landscape. to the rescue come ... giant rats.Two years ago, a European demining firm touched upon training...
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"For the past two weeks residents living around China's second largest lake have been able to smell a rat—make that two billion rats.
When the Yangtze River flooded on June 23, the water level rose in Dongting Lake, which sits along the river south of Wuhan in...
On occasion I have seen a mouse or two in Pahrump but nothing like this: can you imagine what 2 billion mice would look like?I saw this in Forbes magazine on The Internet, the Chinese have a big problem with...
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Paralyzed lab rodents with spinal cord injuries apparently regained some ability to walk six weeks after a simple injection of biodegradable soap-like molecules that helped nerves regenerate.
The research could have implications for humans with similar injuries.
"It will...