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Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money

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Recent published studies document that an old boys network in the federal grant award process keeps “aging cash cows” afloat while leaving younger, innovative investigators struggling.

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Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds

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Every time a gene is replicated, or really, a chromosome (during cell division), a bit of the end of a gene may be lost, owing to the way this process happens. This is part of the process of aging. City Great Tit ( Parus major ) telomeres shortened. Telomeres are repetitive sequences of genetic material sitting at the ends of genes.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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At the same time, female relatives of the initiate allow themselves to be severely whipped with saplings, forming permanent scarring on their backs and in the process cementing lifelong allegiances between the parties. A long bearded D’Brazza’s Monkey was gorging on figs along the Mago River. A young Hamar woman. Mursi woman.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

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For example, if we hear distant thunder, we know that it was caused by a storm, or by lightning, or by the more precisely defined physical processes of ionized air (depending on how much we know about meteorology). A Hidden Causal Agent (HCA) is an entity that causes something to happen, where you can’t see the agent but you know what it is.

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