Inside the Berman Zebrafish Lab, Jason Berman and his team work to discover new and improved treatments by studying diseased zebrafish cells. It’s a useful tool in trying to design better therapies. “Zebrafish have very similar genes to us and have very similar cells to us,” says Berman. “And they’re also transparent, which means we’re […]
Animals
Posted inLove the Way We Bitch/Love
Quinpool Vet:
To Dr. C and his staff – I brought my sick cat in for what I thought would be a relatively minor matter. The diagnosis proved to be much more serious, resulting in euthanasia. The tact, thoughtfulness and kindness with which both my cat and I were treated made a terrible experience a little bit […]
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Milking it
Cows are simple. There’s no other way to put it. They stare. And right now there’s a good two dozen staring at farmer Rick Rand. Staring, chewing, staring, chewing. It’s not love. At least not on the Holsteins’ part. Cows respond to being fed and being milked, which takes Rand, for his herd of about […]
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Saving Brindi
Sometimes you have to laugh, so that you don’t cry. Just ask Francesca Rogier. “I wouldn’t believe this story if somebody told me,” she says. “Honestly.” And yet…the fantastically far-fetched plotline that belongs to the story of Brindi the dog—Rogier’s five-year-old brown mutt that was seized by the city after three attacks on other dogs, […]