Warm-up exercise helps tiny shrews survive icy waters
July 5th, 2012 - 1:40 pm ICT by IANS
This behaviour is unexpected because lower body temperatures enable diving mammals to stay underwater for longer. Heating up doesn't make sense as animals use up oxygen more quickly when they are ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Mammoth’s haemoglobin resurrection explain how they survived extreme cold
May 3rd, 2010 - 2:08 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 3 (ANI): Canadian scientists have resurrected haemoglobin of woolly mammoth - a blood protein that may explain how the animals coped with the cold of an ice age.It is the ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Protein modification involved in muscular dystrophy, cancer discovered
January 1st, 2010 - 5:35 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 1 (ANI): Scientists at University of Iowa have discovered a new type of chemical modification on an important muscle protein-a feta that could improve the understanding of certain muscular dystrophies ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Viagra relieves exercise-induced fatigue linked with muscular dystrophies
October 27th, 2008 - 2:07 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 27 (ANI): Viagra can overcome the signalling defect and relieve exercise-induced fatigue associated with muscular dystrophies, according to a new study.
In the study on mice, researchers at University of ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Shrews are highly sophisticated predators, not simple and primitive
February 8th, 2008 - 5:10 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Feb 8 (ANI): A new study of the water shrew has revealed that the species are highly sophisticated predators, thus challenging the traditional view that the tiny mammals are simple and ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |