Vets invited to get snap happy for BVA’s third ‘Veterinary photographer of the year’ competition
Zebrafish's near 360 degree UV-vision knocks stripes off Google Street View
Tiny freshwater fish have a view of the world that blows Google Street View out of the water -- using different parts of their eyes to deliver optimum uses of colour, black-and-white and ultraviolet.
A zebrafish view of the world has been forensically analysed by researchers at the University of Sussex to reveal that how they...
Fish's use of electricity might shed light on human illnesses
Deep in the night in muddy African rivers, a fish uses electrical charges to sense the world around it and communicate with other members of its species. Signaling in electrical spurts that last only a few tenths of a thousandth of a second allows the fish to navigate without letting predators know it is there....
A mechanism behind choosing alcohol over healthy rewards is found
The study links molecular changes in the brain to behaviours that are central in addiction, such as choosing a drug over alternative rewards. The researchers have developed a method in which rats learn to get an alcohol solution by pressing a lever. In order to better capture how addiction makes the individual choose alcohol over...
Cross-species prion adaptation depends on prion replication environment
A hamster prion that replicated under conditions of low RNA levels in mouse brain material resulted in altered disease features when readapted and transmitted back to hamsters, according to new research presented in PLOS Pathogens by Elizaveta Katorcha of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, and colleagues.
Prions are abnormal proteins that can induce...