The idea of doing a dirty Lassie movie is wittier than its execution in this go-for-the-gonads sci-fi flick about a huge guard dog named Max who becomes ultra-possessive of a feckless TV reporter (Ally Sheedy) after she springs him from an animal-experimentation lab.

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In the 1990s, Russian chemist Sergey Bachurin showed it had potential for improving cognition in a variety of lab-animal tests.

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The lightweight plastic and carbon fiber robot, which is the newest member of a supposed zoo of animal-inspired devices from CMU's NanoRobotics Lab, owes its gravity-defying skills to research done by Harvard University biologists on the basilisk, or Jesus, lizard.

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Across the island in David Hyrenbach's lab, the impact of plastic debris is apparent among the animal species he studies: birds.

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The cage was in an animal care facility about 12km (7.4 miles) away from the VR lab.

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The Huntingdon lab itself has been under vicious attack by the group calling itself Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.

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In his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, Full studies the biomechanics behind animal movement, trying to identify which species are the best at executing specific types of motion, such as running, climbing or crawling and then attempting to pinpoint exactly what biological features makes these creatures so skilled at what they do.

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