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College at Texas A&M University offering veterinary education and biomedical research in animal, molecular, and public health.
Texas A&M researchers found at least three independent mutations in the chicken gene EDNRB2 that each produce white-tipped feathers [c1]. The work, published in Animal Genetics, finds that one pattern seen in breeds worldwide has more than one genetic source [c2][c11].
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A questionnaire sent to bison producers across the southern and central United States found treatment set mostly by the calendar, and the veterinary parasitologists who ran it are worried about what that does to a short list of drugs.
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The plan is to find the genes that let urinary-tract bacteria survive the copper the body throws at them, then disable those genes so the immune response does the killing. No results from the new work yet.
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The comparison is between dogs carrying five or more diagnoses and dogs carrying one, across more than 50,000 owner-reported records, and it describes a risk that single-condition veterinary visits are not built to see.
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Texas A&M modeled where Ornithodoros turicata can survive. The answer covers most of Texas and points at southeastern Georgia, where nobody has recorded the tick yet.
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A Texas A&M team reports in PNAS that excess RNA impairs mitochondria before the immune system reacts. The quantity of RNA matters, not only what it encodes.
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