GALION - Biddy the ferret seemed more at ease with a long needle than a Q-tip. Biddy, owned by Pattie Thomas of Mansfield, was a patient last week at Horizon Animal Hospital. Dr. John Shuler used a ...

Genetic analysis reveals airway and lung responses to pandemic flu and cystic fibrosis In what is likely to be a major step forward in the study of influenza, cystic fibrosis and other human diseases, ...

Taxonomy, history and use / James G. Fox -- Anatomy of the ferret / Howard Evans and Nguyen Quoc An -- Neuroanatomy of the ferret brain / Christopher D. Kroenke, Brian Mills, Jaime F. Olavarria, and ...

(Reuters) - The bird flu virus strain that infected a Texas dairy farm worker in March was lethal to ferrets in experiments designed to mimic the disease in humans, the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Beth Williams began her graduate work with a box full of slides of diseased deer brain. The samples came from animals that arrived healthy at a Colorado captive wildlife research facility and later ...

Ferrets have been used as research models since the early 1900s (ref. 2). They are hardy animals that thrive in the lab, provided that their social behaviors, diet and other habits, such as their ...

The domestic ferret was recently described as a uniformly lethal model for 3 species of Ebolavirus. More importantly, this new model utilizes nonadapted wild-type Ebolaviruses. Here, in a ...

The draft sequence of the ferret genome provides genetic information important to the study of respiratory disorders. Scientists are now able to examine the network of the animal's genes activated in ...