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Chemistry World July 24, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	A Viable Alternative Tests on mice, rats, rabbits and guinea pigs to stop harmful chemicals reaching humans were once a necessary evil. But such checks now seem embarrassingly old-fashioned, according to a report on toxicity testing.
Science News June 9, 2007 Janet Raloff	Super-Size Mice--Fast Food Hurts Rodents When rodents eat the equivalent of a fast-food diet, they develop health problems similar to those seen in the movie Super Size Me.
Scientific American June 2007	Serengeti in the Dakotas A proposed Pleistocene rewilding would restock the Great Plains with large mammal species like those that roamed the continent before humans crossed the Bering Strait -- species such as camels, lions and elephants.
Food Engineering May 2, 2007	It's a Dog's Life! The pet food contamination case isn't closed yet. The FDA is speculating that melamine may have been added to the Chinese wheat gluten in order to increase protein levels.
Delicious Living March 2007 Kelli Rosen	Old Friends While our cherished companions can't live forever, holistic approaches are allowing dogs and cats to live much longer, healthier lives.
Scientific American March 2007	The Beef with Cloned Meat For Americans, the idea of cloned meat elicits distaste even in many confirmed carnivores. Is that gut reaction justified? From a food-safety standpoint, probably not.
Chemistry World January 2007 Philip Ball	Opinion: The Crucible How did the leopard get its spots? Recent research supports an idea first suggested by legendary code-breaker and British mathematician Alan Turing.
Chemistry World December 22, 2006 Victoria Gill	Metabolic Profiling Could Improve Animal Experiments Different types of rats respond to drugs in substantially different ways that can be tracked by metabolic analysis, according to scientists who say their finding has major implications for designing animal experiments.
Geotimes December 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Wobbling Earth Linked to Mammal Extinctions Periodic changes in Earth's orbit and tilt may be controlling the appearances and disappearances of mammal species, a new study suggests.
HHMI Bulletin November 2006 Michael Mason	Man's Best Model It may not seem strange that dogs, so often anthropomorphized, can enlighten molecular biologists about behaviors deemed uniquely human. But as it turns out, many animals can. Even snails.
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