The projects are funded by the $15 million Biosurveillance Research Programme. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

A dog once identified a melanoma on its owner’s leg – sniffing persistently at a mole that turned out to be malignant – before any doctor had flagged it. That wouldn’t be surprising if the dog had ...

In recent decades, scientists and public health experts have increasingly examined how human interactions with wildlife and ecosystems can contribute to the emergence of infectious diseases. Two human ...

Nature has spent millions of years solving problems that humans are only beginning to understand. Some animals have evolved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock New research suggests that international wildlife trade is upping the transmission of diseases from animals ...

From dogs and cats to dairy cows and sea turtles, animals around the world are suffering from various cancers, obesity, diabetes, and degenerative joint disease. Understanding the forces driving an ...

Constant scratching, bumpy skin and tufts of lost fur. Those are just some of the signs an animal has scabies, a severe and ...

From obesity in cats and dogs and osteoarthritis in pigs, to cancer in whales and high blood glucose in racoons, chronic diseases are increasingly becoming a concern across the animal world, a recent ...

Humans cannot be used for toxicity testing so animal models or animal data are needed and required in order to develop assessments for humans. (Thayer) One major drawback of animal research is that ...