In one 2007 episode of the medical TV drama series House, when one of Dr. Gregory House's patients and the man's Old English sheepdog both die, a veterinarian ascribes the dog's death to heartbreak.

Certain dogs carry a genetic mutation that not only heightens their love for food but also results in a lower calorie-burning rate, making them “hardwired” for obesity. The Labrador retriever has been ...

Radiation-induced mutation is unlikely to have induced genetic differences between dog populations in Chornobyl City and the nearby Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Radiation-induced mutation is ...

The stray dogs that roam the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become unlikely protagonists in a scientific debate about how life responds to chronic radiation. For years, they have been framed as a ...

Two dog breeds, Labradors and flat-coated retrievers, may be prone to becoming overweight because they have a mutation that both makes them hungrier between meals and lowers their metabolic rate.

For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure. One of the ongoing subjects in this unintentional ...

RALEIGH – Researchers have identified new genetic mutations linked to a subset of canine bladder cancers. Their findings have implications both for early cancer detection and for targeted treatments ...

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Radiation-induced mutation is unlikely to have induced genetic differences between dog populations in Chornobyl City and the nearby Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), according to a new study in ...