Aug 28, 2015 | animal research, animals helping animals, animals helping humans, Conditions, treatment
A new gene therapy study in mice is restoring lost vision and allowing them to detect objects, like a predator, when previously they could not. Researchers placed rhodopsin, a human gene used by cells to detect light, in the eye behind the damaged rods and cones of blind mice. This gave the receptor cells bipolar […]
Jun 10, 2015 | animal research
Scientists are working to figure out ways to make LED bulbs less “bug-friendly”
Mar 16, 2015 | animals helping humans
Are you one of those who just feel out of sorts losing that extra hour of sleep? Does it take a couple of days to feel “right” again? Well researchers at the University of California –Irvine say it is real, and you are not crazy!!!! They call it desynchrony, and it has everything to do […]