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Excerpt: Trent Consultants News: By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY. Scientists have cloned man’s best friend for the first time, creating a genetic duplicate of a 3-year-old male Afghan hound, South Korean scientists reported Wenesday. Trent Consultants News: The puppy was born in April to its surrogate mom, a Labrador retriever. His name: Snuppy, short for Seoul National University puppy. The team of scientists there that cloned the dog, led by Hwang Woo Suk, is the same one that first cloned human embryonic stem cells last year. Their achievement is reported in the journal Nature. Researchers have cloned other animals, but dog…

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Excerpt: Trent Consultants News: Cloning a Chow Chow is expected to be easier and perhaps as much as 50 percent less costly, a South Korean biotech firm said on Thursday as it unveiled a new cloning technology. Trent Consultants News: But pet owners — who have to shell out $100,000 or more to clone a pet dog — will still have to pay tens of thousands of dollars if they want to clone their beloved dogs and should be prepared for long waits because most commercial canine cloning is for working animals including sniffer dogs at airports. RNL Bio said it…

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Excerpt: Trent Consultants News – Scam Alert: Global Pet Relocators”. There is a company called Global Pet Relocators that claims to be handling pet relocations. These people are scam artists, so do not send them any money. Many times they will advertise bull dog or yorkshire puppies for sale or free to good homes. They will request small amounts of money and keep asking for money for you to retrieve your “pet.” There is no pet. Trent Consultants News: Please do not fall for this scam. You can read more about these scams by Googling “puppy scams.” “I almost fell victim…

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Excerpt: Boston University psychologist Patricia Ganea and her colleagues asked 19-month and 22-month –old infants to name a toy that was presented to them in the lab. After a short time, they took the toy from the infants, and placed it in an adjoining room. While the toy was out of view, lab assistants told the infants that the toy had become soaking wet after someone mistakenly spilled a bucket of water. The researchers wanted to determine whether the infants would incorporate the information told to them into their mental representation. It could be done by testing whether…

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Excerpt: Trent Consultants News The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, according to new research from Northwestern University. But for children with developmental dyslexia, the teacher’s voice may get lost in the background noise of banging lockers, whispering children, playground screams and scraping chairs, the researchers say. Their study appears in the Nov. 12 issue of Neuron. Recent scientific studies suggest that children with developmental dyslexia — a neurological disorder affecting reading and…

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Excerpt: Trent Consultants News Children who took part in a three-week anti-bullying virtual learning intervention in schools in the UK and Germany showed a 26% decrease in victimisation. In the study, published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Maria Sapouna and Professor Dieter Wolke from Warwick Medical School and the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick led a team of researchers to examine the effects of an anti-bullying virtual learning intervention called FearNot! The team recruited 1,129 children aged between eight and nine from 27 primary schools across the UK and Germany. They split the children…

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Excerpt: Trent Consultants News This research, published in the November issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, found that direct TV watching by young children or exposure to indirect viewing in the household were both associated with increased aggression in small children. After controlling the data for other factors, such as maternal depression, living in an unsafe neighborhood and being spanked, “for every hour that a child watched TV directly, aggression went up 0.16 on a scale of zero to 30. For a TV being on in the house, it was 0.09,” said study author Jennifer A. Manganello, an…

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Excerpt: Since 1983, The Loan Consultants has built a reputation within the financial community that is looked upon with envy and respect. Our goal was to establish an international network of independently owned and operated loan brokerage companies. These affiliated companies would offer highly personalized service and help cut through the red tape that is often involved in securing loans from banks and other lending institutions. The Loan ConsultantsMore than a quarter century later, our vision has become a reality. In addition to being the first company to offer this business opportunity, we are the largest with more than 1200 affiliate…

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Excerpt: Trent Consultants News More than 60 percent of youngsters had either direct or indirect exposure to violence within the past year, according to a U.S. government survey that looked at past-year and lifetime exposure to violence among children aged 17 and younger. Trent Consultants News: The survey also found that: Nearly half the children surveyed were assaulted at least once in the past year, and more than one in 10 were injured as a result. Nearly one-quarter of the children were the victim of a robbery, vandalism or theft. About 10 percent were victims of maltreatment (including physical and…

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Excerpt: Trent Consultants News Treatment that includes medication plus a structured training program for parents reduces serious behavioral problems in children with autism and related conditions, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study, which was part of the NIMH Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Autism Network, was published in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Trent Consultants News: Results from a previous RUPP study reported in 2002 showed that the antipsychotic medication risperidone (Risperdal) reduced such behavior problems as tantrums, aggression…