2017 December Archive | North London Veterinary Clinic

Animal Welfare Foundation welcomes three new trustees

29 December 2017

AWF trustees provide strategic direction to the vet-led charity, ensure its financial stability, and safeguard its brand and reputation

Three veterinary surgeons working in practice, business, academia and education, amongst other areas, are the new trustees appointed to the board of the Animal Welfare Foundation (AWF), the charity announced today.

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Veterinary surgeons perform first-known brain surgery to treat hydrocephalus in fur seal

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A neurosurgical team has successfully performed what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind brain surgery on a Northern fur seal named Ziggy Star in an attempt to address her worsening neurologic condition. Ziggy, an adult female, is recovering well at her permanent home at Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Conn....

The Iberian brown bears do not descend from those fled from the north during the Ice Age

[unable to retrieve full-text content]According to the glacier refuges theory, after the last glaciations the bears of northern Europe sought shelter in the South. Researchers now reject this idea: they have reconstructed the colonization of brown bears in the Iberian Peninsula and have shown that the lineage of the Pleistocene bears was lost....

Scientists should be super modelers

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Scholars and conservationists want to aim for the right future to preserve biodiversity and plan sustainable environments. One of those scholars is calling for due diligence to make sure the right data, not conventional wisdom, shapes that target....

First-ever hybrid bird species from the Amazon

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers have described the first known hybrid bird species to be found in the Amazon rainforest. Through a series of genetic and other tests the team have revealed that the golden-crowned manakin -- first discovered in Brazil in 1957 but not seen again until 2002 - is in fact a hybrid...

Scientists identify hidden genetic variation that helps drive evolution

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Identifying complex mutations in the structure of an organism's genome has been difficult. But ecologists and evolutionary biologists have applied new methods of genome analysis to identify these complex mutations with unprecedented resolution....

Monthly Archives: December 2017

Animal Welfare Foundation welcomes three new trustees

Veterinary surgeons perform first-known brain surgery to treat hydrocephalus in fur seal

The Iberian brown bears do not descend from those fled from the north during the Ice Age

Scientists should be super modelers

First-ever hybrid bird species from the Amazon

Scientists identify hidden genetic variation that helps drive evolution

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