The Dog Zombie

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Sunday, February 7, 2016

Being the one who remembers: humane housing in shelters

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A cat who is clearly not in a shelter. Last night I wrote the first draft of a document on appropriate housing for shelter animals fo...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Dog parks: tools to be used for good or evil

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Dog parks can be valuable ways to exercise and socialize your dog. They can also be dangerous places where dogs can get hurt. And so we ask ...
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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Too many pairs: DNA, chromatin, and chromosomes

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Some facts: Molecules of DNA are double-stranded, each strand a perfect complementary copy of the other. Humans have 23 pairs of chromoso...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Science for the people

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One of my students in the online genetics class I’m teaching commented to me that it was a little sad that we were marketing the class as...
Monday, January 11, 2016

The future of behavior medication?

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We don’t actually know how behavior medications work. We know how they change the operations of cells — for example, we know facts like “t...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Let chickens be chickens

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A week or so ago I encountered a letter to the editor in our local newspaper that made me peevish. Its author opined that chickens have b...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Science with a sense of humor

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I’m writing a peer-reviewed article right now. I can almost guarantee it’s something pretty much none of you will be interested in (it is no...
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Jessica Perry Hekman, DVM, PhD is fascinated by dog brains. She is a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she studies the genetics of dog behavior. Her interests include the stress response in mammals, canine behavior, canine domestication, shelter medicine, animal welfare, and open access publishing. You may learn more about Jessica at www.dogzombie.com, or email her at jph at dogzombie dot com. All opinions expressed here are her own.
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