If you feed fructose to animals, they rapidly become obese, with all the features of metabolic syndrome. And a high-fructose intake has been shown to induce certain features of the metabolic syndrome pretty rapidly in people.

With vanadyl sulphate being like IGF-1, we expected to see resistance in the diabetic animals, but we didn't see that. We saw similar improvement. Thus it must have been acting through a different pathway than do IGF-1 or insulin.

I work on the floor with them. Lab coats scare them, so for the animals, it's better to wear regular clothes.

Buffalo are dangerous and unpredictable animals, we need to treat them with respect and give them plenty of room.

The results of this animal trial are very promising, not only because our vaccine completely protected animals that otherwise would have died, but also because we found that one form of the vaccine stimulates several lines of immunity against H5N1.

These are highly social animals that form cohesive groups.