A new book looks at the health links between animals and humans. June 12, 2012— -- intro: Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a sort of modern day Dr. Dolittle. For the past six years, the UCLA ...

In biomedical research, the concept of chimeras represents a significant advancement that may transform our understanding of human biology. A chimera, defined as an organism with cells originating ...

Researchers from Washington State University (WSU) have discovered a model where humans and wildlife can share a forest ...

Veterinarian and public health leader Megin Nichols talked about the interdependence of human, animal and environmental ...

Feb. 7, 2005 — -- Animal-human hybrids have long been the stuff of fairy tales and myths -- from the half-man, half-horse centaur to singing mermaids. Now the swift pace of genetic engineering ...

Marco Adda offers a new view of how to interact with nonhumans and explores how we can learn from other animals’ movement, ...

In the early 1800s, leg amputations free of acute pain seemed impossible. However, the first widely used anesthetic, called ether, was right around the corner. Sixteenth-century physician Paracelsus ...

The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...