Pet Care

These Sisters Are Ready to Find a New Home Together!

Feather and Spot are shy girls who can be nervous in new places and with new people. However, since they came to our Los Angeles foster program in November 2020, their foster caregiver has worked closely with our staff to show Feather and Spot that life with humans isn’t so bad! Both Feather and Spot […]

Pet Care

Keep Military Servicemembers and Their Pets Together

Good news for our troops: Congress is on the verge of repealing years of misguided, breed-specific bans affecting the pet dogs of military families. Currently, the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps all have varied discriminatory breed bans that prevent military families from having certain breeds of dogs—like American Pit Bull Terriers, Doberman Pinschers and […]

Personal Health

Together, big data, bench science and genome-wide diagnostics predict genomic instability that can lead to disease

They are the most common repeated elements in the human genome; more than a million copies are scattered among and between our genes. Called Alu elements, these relatively short (approximately 300 Watson-Crick base pairs), repetitive non-coding sequences of DNA have been implicated in the rapid evolution of humans and non-human primate species. Unfortunately, these repeats […]

Personal Health

Couples Date For 17 Months Before Moving In Together

So you’ve been dating for a year and wondering when you’ll start spending your Saturdays at home opens? Errr, yay!? The website Bridebook surveyed 4,000 recently married couples about how long they dated for before moving in together and the results were interesting. On average, couples dated for 17 months before moving in together. They […]