Animals can be born with genetic or developmental issues that make it hard for them to live normal lives. They also can develop mental health problems in response to conditions around them.

Just as soldiers may develop post-traumatic stress disorder after facing life-threatening situations, military and police ...

Cats may display signs similar to the human disease Down Syndrome. It’s all of this uniqueness that makes us love them even more. Down Syndrome is a genetic condition in which a person is born ...

It doesn’t seem possible for a lovable dog to kill a mighty lion, but a few breeds are capable of this incredible feat. Discover the dog breeds capable of taking down a lion in this fascinating video!

Some people who stop eating meat have reported unpleasant effects when they return to it. Can your body forget how to digest ...

So there’s a whole literature on animal studies ... and you really need to dig down into the history of shaken baby syndrome to understand how it was born—it was born in the ’70s with ...

In 2003, researchers isolated close matches of the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS ... such as by tracking down where the animals in the Huanan market came from and ...

All individuals with Down syndrome (DS) eventually develop Alzheimer’s disease ... levels in TS mice and reduced Thyroid-stimulating hormone levels in CO mice, while animals of both karyotypes ...

Introduction: DYRK1A is a dual-specificity kinase that is overexpressed in Down syndrome (DS) and plays a key role in neurogenesis ... mtDNA levels that were found in non-treated TG mice. The animal ...

Gene editing techniques may eventually allow trisomy to be treated at the cellular level, according to an in vitro proof-of-concept study. Down syndrome is caused by the presence of a third copy ...

A manikin created to look like it has Down's syndrome is being used to train hospital staff. Great Western Hospital, in Swindon, is using the child-sized manikin called Gwen to teach staff how to ...