Evita Apalaki The fairytale…  Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a well-dressed beautiful lady. She was the owner of a fashion house, famous for its beautiful designs of fluffy furry coats and clothes. Her colleagues worked hard to satisfy her by making her ideas come true. But her soft … Continue reading "“V” for Vegan: The new fashion identity"

Evita Apalaki Communication is the act that happens among a sender and a receiver, during which the latter is supposed to change behavior, or the transmitted information will affect the adaptation of one or both of those participants. Humans have developed the ultimate form of communication, language. Phrases said in a particular order structure a … Continue reading "Animal Communications Systems (ANICOMS)"

Evita Apalaki Animal testing is a way to determine the safety of a medical substance before its commercial release and public use. Αpart from health care, cosmetic brands also experiment on animals in order to achieve a high standard of quality for the ingredients in their products. However, even if the reason for this testing … Continue reading "Animal Testing: Cosmetics"

Evita Apalaki Apart from their great company, the extra sensitive olfactory ability of dogs has been an important help for civilian and military purposes for centuries now. Dogs have 40 times greater smell capacity than an average human does. Up to 300 million olfactory receptors located in their noses are activated by external odors. The … Continue reading "Canine Olfactory Detection: for medical and forensic

Evita Apalaki Language is a unique system of communication that separates humans from animals. However, the process of communication is not characterized only by verbal means but, in fact, is the broader production and exchange of messages and meanings through signs, movements, and symbols. Reasonably, this general definition signifies that animals can efficiently communicate even … Continue reading "Communication Between Animals and Humans"

Evita Apalaki These days, the voices against animal testing are very loud. Activists, animal organizations and individual animal lovers protest in the name of animal rights, trying to prevent them from being used in experiments. In fact, there is ancient evidence showing that curiosity led humans to start exploring life through animals. The history indicates … Continue reading "Experimental animals: THE 3R RULE"

Evita Apalaki Nature is regulated by strict unspoken rules. Among animals, the fastest eats the weakest, the strongest leads the herd, and the lonely animals are unable to survive in the wild. But what happens when a bear likes playing with a tiger or when a deer enjoys the company of a dog? It is … Continue reading "Intra-species animal relationship"

Evita Apalaki Model organisms are of high importance for contemporary scientific achievements. By definition, they are usually easily handled, extensively tested and fully understood eukaryotic or prokaryotic organisms that can be used for scientific experiments.  According to the principles of evolution, all the living organisms on Earth have a common ancestor, which signifies that they … Continue reading "Model Organisms"

Career path  Εvita Apalaki The text below describes a general path that an individual needs to follow in order to obtain a position in academia as a lecturer or professor in the field of biology. These steps may differ from country to country, but the main required qualifications are similar among the worldwide scientific community.  … Continue reading "Professor in academia: field of molecular and

Evita Apalaki Long-term scientific observation of animals’ behavior has revealed the complex systems that have been developed for inter and intraspecies communication. Indeed, many of those signals have already been decoded. In that way, humans have been given the opportunity to understand better the complexity of other organisms in nature, and also to conceive the … Continue reading "Special Communication Systems: Marine Mammals"