Ainslie Butler and Lindsay Jolivet, Health, Medicine, and Veterinary Science co-editors In mid-February, NASA launched a superbug into space. The idea was to study how methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, mutates in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station. Using space to predict the future of this deadly pathogen could give us a […]
Ainslie Butler and Lindsay Jolivet, Health, Medicine & Veterinary co-editors Growing up across the street from the Queen Elizabeth Way, a busy highway outside of Toronto, Ainslie Butler’s mother often worried that the noise and pollution would affect her family’s health. Highway dust, as her family called it, left its grungy mark on their patio […]
Ainslie Butler and Lindsay Jolivet, Health, Medicine & Veterinary Science co-editors As human obesity rates rise, evidence suggests that pet obesity rates may be rising too. Obesity is one of the most common risk factors for diabetes in pets and humans. By some estimates, more than half of the cats and dogs in the […]
Ainslie Butler and Lindsay Jolivet, Health, Medicine & Veterinary Science co-editors The mosquitoes that carry Zika virus are unlikely to settle in cooler Canadian climates anytime soon. But recent evidence suggests that climate change may change that in the long term. The odds of getting Zika virus – which has been linked to microcephaly in […]
Lindsay Jolivet, Health, Medicine & Veterinary Science editor After our Science Borealis Reader Survey, we randomly selected four participating blogs to be profiled here on the Borealis Blog during 2016. This is first of those featured posts. Companion Animal Psychology Blogger Zazie Todd combines a PhD in psychology with a deep love of animals to […]
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