Therapy Animals

UCLA’s Broad Center researchers have developed an antibody therapy to help the heart heal after a heart attack. This therapy, which blocks the ENPP1 protein, reduces scar tissue formation that can lead to heart failure. Early tests showed that treated animals had less scarring and a reduced risk of severe heart failure. With plans for human trial...

Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory, Broad Institute, and Yale University use AI to identify DNA sequences that control gene activation in specific cells. This AI model decodes patterns in DNA regions called cis-regulatory elements (CREs), guiding synthetic DNA switches for cell-specific gene activity. Early testing in animal models showed succes...

Read on as we share some ways in which therapy can be helpful.

Get a better idea as we discuss and outline signs and reasons why seeking therapy might be beneficial.

Postnatal gene therapy may be able to prevent or repair many of the harmful effects of Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, a rare genetic condition, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. In an animal model of Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, researchers discovered that restoring lost gene activity eliminates numerous clinical in...

Stem cell therapy, earlier proved effective for animals, have now been used to treat newborns with brain damage. The researchers, including a team from University Medical Center Utrecht, administered stem cells to 10 newborns via nose droplets, a procedure that took only several minutes.

Pigs might not fly, but LiLou the therapy pig wants to make air travel less stressful. The five-year-old Juliana pig and her owner, Tatyana Danilova, are part of San Francisco International Airport's "Wag Brigade" - a program that brings therapy animals to the airport to cheer passengers up and help ease travel anxieties.

International Cat Day was first celebrated in 2002. It is celebrated globally which marks the bond shared between humans and cats. Read here to know the many health benefits of pet therapy.

As Hong Kong welcomes the Year of the Dog, pet owners are pushing out the boat more than ever to ensure their pooches are glossed and spritzed, with money no object. For many dogs, grooming goes way beyond a brush and toe-clip -- their deluxe once-a-month pampering includes lavender oxygen therapy and a milk bath.

Options for attempting to relieve hot-flash symptoms include traditional hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, and bioidentical hormone therapy, which mimics hormones produced by ovaries using plant or animal derivatives.

Untreatable blindness could now be reversed, thanks to the new gene therapy technique. This is the conclusive proof of an animal study conducted by researchers in the University of Oxford.

Veterinarians in Chennai have claimed a breakthrough in autologous stem cell-based therapy for animals by treating a nine-month-old dog which had a spinal cord injury.

Scientists have devised a new, experimental approach to treating allergic diseases that is showing promise in animal studies and could be a potential treatment for humans. Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of New Mexico designed a genetically engineered molecule called GE2 that interacts with two...

UCLA’s Broad Center researchers have developed an antibody therapy to help the heart heal after a heart attack. This therapy, which blocks the ENPP1 protein, reduces scar tissue formation that can lead to heart failure. Early tests showed that treated animals had less scarring and a reduced risk of severe heart failure. With plans for human trial...

Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory, Broad Institute, and Yale University use AI to identify DNA sequences that control gene activation in specific cells. This AI model decodes patterns in DNA regions called cis-regulatory elements (CREs), guiding synthetic DNA switches for cell-specific gene activity. Early testing in animal models showed succes...

Read on as we share some ways in which therapy can be helpful.

Get a better idea as we discuss and outline signs and reasons why seeking therapy might be beneficial.

Postnatal gene therapy may be able to prevent or repair many of the harmful effects of Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, a rare genetic condition, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. In an animal model of Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, researchers discovered that restoring lost gene activity eliminates numerous clinical in...

Stem cell therapy, earlier proved effective for animals, have now been used to treat newborns with brain damage. The researchers, including a team from University Medical Center Utrecht, administered stem cells to 10 newborns via nose droplets, a procedure that took only several minutes.

Pigs might not fly, but LiLou the therapy pig wants to make air travel less stressful. The five-year-old Juliana pig and her owner, Tatyana Danilova, are part of San Francisco International Airport's "Wag Brigade" - a program that brings therapy animals to the airport to cheer passengers up and help ease travel anxieties.

International Cat Day was first celebrated in 2002. It is celebrated globally which marks the bond shared between humans and cats. Read here to know the many health benefits of pet therapy.

As Hong Kong welcomes the Year of the Dog, pet owners are pushing out the boat more than ever to ensure their pooches are glossed and spritzed, with money no object. For many dogs, grooming goes way beyond a brush and toe-clip -- their deluxe once-a-month pampering includes lavender oxygen therapy and a milk bath.

Options for attempting to relieve hot-flash symptoms include traditional hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, and bioidentical hormone therapy, which mimics hormones produced by ovaries using plant or animal derivatives.

Untreatable blindness could now be reversed, thanks to the new gene therapy technique. This is the conclusive proof of an animal study conducted by researchers in the University of Oxford.

Veterinarians in Chennai have claimed a breakthrough in autologous stem cell-based therapy for animals by treating a nine-month-old dog which had a spinal cord injury.

Scientists have devised a new, experimental approach to treating allergic diseases that is showing promise in animal studies and could be a potential treatment for humans. Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of New Mexico designed a genetically engineered molecule called GE2 that interacts with two...