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What is animal culture? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Culture in humans connotes tradition, norms, ritual, technology, and social learning, but also cultural events like operas or gallery openings. Culture is in part about what we do, but also sometimes about what we ought to do.
Ramsey, Grant
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Animal Culture and Animal Welfare

open access: yesPhilosophy of Science, 2022
AbstractFollowing recent arguments that cultural practices in wild animal populations have important conservation implications, we argue that recognizing captive animals as cultural has important welfare implications. Having a culture is of deep importance for cultural animals, wherever they live.
Simon Fitzpatrick, Kristin Andrews
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Animal cultures matter for conservation [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2019
Understanding the rich social lives of animals benefits international conservation ...
Brakes, Philippa   +24 more
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The changing role of cell culture in the generation of transgenic livestock [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Transgenesis may allow the generation of farm animals with altered phenotype, animal models for research and animal bioreactors. Although such animals have been produced, the time and expense involved in generating transgenic livestock and then ...
Farini, E, Webster, J, Whitelaw, C B
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Research Models for Studying Vascular Calcification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Calcification of the vessel wall contributes to high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Vascular calcification (VC) is a systemic disease with multifaceted contributing and inhibiting factors in an actively regulated process.
Babic, Milen   +4 more
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Novel triblock co-polymer nanofibre system as an alternative support for embryonic stem cells growth and pluripotency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Conventionally, embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are cultured on gelatin or over a mitotically inactivated monolayer of mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFsi). Considering the lack of versatile, non-animal-derived and inexpensive materials for that purpose, we ...
Anderson   +24 more
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In vivo imaging of pyrrole-imidazole polyamides with positron emission tomography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The biodistribution profiles in mice of two pyrrole-imidazole polyamides were determined by PET. Pyrrole-imidazole polyamides are a class of small molecules that can be programmed to bind a broad repertoire of DNA sequences, disrupt transcription factor ...
Bergstr  m   +26 more
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Animal Cell Culture [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Pathology, 1990
Basic Cell Culture.- Establishment, Maintenance, and Cloning of Human Primary Cell Strains.- Aging of Cultured Human Skin Fibroblasts.- Separation and Maintenance of Primary T and B Lymphocytes.- Establishment of Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines.- Scale-Up of Suspension and Anchorage-Dependent Animal Cells.- Mycoplasma Detection.- Short-Term Chorionic Villi ...
John M. Walker, Jeffrey W. Pollard
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Animal culture: But of which kind?

open access: yesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2021
Is animal culture a real entity or is it rather just in the eye of the beholder? The concept of culture began to be increasingly used in the context of animal behaviour research around the 1960s. Despite its success, it is not clear that it represents what philosophers have traditionally thought to be a natural kind.
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The spread of a novel behaviour in wild chimpanzees : new insights into the ape cultural mind [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
TP was funded by the Canadian Research Chair in Continental Ecosystem Ecology, and received computational support from the Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology group at UQAR.
Catherine Hobaiter   +8 more
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