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Stored fuel’s importance for migrating monarch butterflies: Implications for conserving all migrant animals

In his latest research, Keith A. Hobson, Research Scientist and Professor at Western University, explores why stored fuel is critical to migrating animals, such as monarch butterflies.
Cracked dry land as a result of drought caused by human environmental degradation such as deforestation, bad agricultural practices, intense farming and reduced space for natural forests and habitats.

The effect of soil degradation on human, animal and plant health

Dr. Christine Sprunger, soil scientist and ecologist at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) and the Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University, discusses the danger of soil degradation on human and animal life, and what we can do to mitigate it.
dogs playing in food, animal health, animal welfare

Why do we always care about the welfare of laboratory animals?

Seasoned experts from the Daegu-Gyeongbuk Medical Innovation Foundation (K-MEDI hub) in South Korea share their research perspectives on the welfare of laboratory animals, including the issue of veterinary care.
Healthcare workers intubating a COVID patient.

Applying data science advances in disease surveillance and control

Dr. David S. Ebert from the University of Oklahoma’s Data Institute for Societal Challenges and Dr. Aaron Wendelboe from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center outline how a cohesive, multidisciplinary, and multi-tiered approach can support a more predictive model in disease surveillance and control.
image of a gorilla hand showing the function of fingerprints

The function of fingerprints: How can we grip?

Professor Gun-Sik Park, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Seoul National University explores the function of fingerprints from a lens of understanding the mechanism of our human ability to grip.
abstact image of a brain used to promote, nonhuman primate brain research

Fostering nonhuman primate (NHP) brain research without animal sacrifice

The MacBrain Resource Center (MBRC) at Yale University School of Medicine is positioning itself at the forefront of innovative ways to provide cost-effective means for scientists to conduct de novo nonhuman primate brain research with extant materials.
A large bowl with cat food, and two curious cats looking at it, pet food

Ensuring healthier pets through improved nutrient precision in pet foods

Improved nutrient precision in pet foods is critical to pets, people & planet; Dennis E. Jewell, PhD from Kansas State University & Matthew I. Jackson, PhD from Hill’s Pet Nutrition, explain.
Flock of wintering Barnacle Goose(branta leucopsis)in wadden Sea,East Frisia,lower saxony,Germany

Tracking animal migration with stable isotopes

Keith A. Hobson from Western University and Environment and Climate Change Canada, walks us through tracking animal migration with stable isotopes, starting with some background information.
Unusual close up of a Rothschild giraffe in mid "necking" contest, a quirk of biology - Lake Nakuru national park, Kenya. Biomanufacturing is an explanation as to why Giraffes have such long necks

Driving industrial biomanufacturing with evolution

Why do giraffes have long necks? At the University of Sheffield, Prof. Tuck Seng Wong applies Darwinian intrinsic research to the realm of industrial biomanufacturing.

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