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Bird flu isn’t an immediate health threat in New York. But preparations have begun.
No human cases of bird flu have been confirmed in New York, but the virus has emerged among animals. Public health leaders ...
Inside the race to create a Japanese encephalitis vaccine for pigs
The pig industry wants to fast-track permits for a vaccine to reduce the risk of the mosquito-borne virus spreading through the pig population.
PETA protests ASPCA 'animal welfare certified' labels, alleging factory farm cruelty to animals
PETA supporters in New York City on Thursday protested at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals headquarters for promoting animal welfare certification labels that PETA claims ...
Elephants Are Not People, Colorado Supreme Court Rules
A court has rejected the notion that elephants are people, upholding a zoo's right to keep the animals after a yearslong legal scrap.
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Ending Monkey Experiments Will Help Human Medicine
In November, news outlets worldwide covered the story of 43 monkeys escaping from a South Carolina nonhuman primate facility.
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Scientists are tracking global wildlife’s contributions to humanity
In October 2020, the hoofbeats of American bison thumped across the prairie of the Rosebud Reservation for the first time in more than a century. Years in the works, the release of 100 bison (Bison ...
Self-supervised learning approach can test 20 million cells or more
Our bodies are made up of around 75 billion cells. But what function does each individual cell perform and how greatly do a healthy person's cells differ from those of someone with a disease? To draw ...