Sentences with phrase «animal labs like»

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While some still object to cells being taken from animals and used by scientists to grow clean meat in laboratories — and some just don't like the idea of eating a «cultured» steak created by men and women in white coats — others see the lab - grown meat revolution as key to solving the environmental crisis linked to meat eating.

Pairing state - of - the - art technology like DNA sequencers and robotic fluid handlers in the lab with Shedd's world - class animal expertise, the lab enables Aquarium researchers to study the countless invisible organisms that co-exist with the 32,000 animals in Shedd's care.

But the next big question was whether these cells could home in on tumors in lab dishes, and in animals, like neural stem cells.

The research is part of a growing field called ecoimmunology, which aims to push the study of immunology beyond lab animals like fruit flies and mice and understand how immune systems function in real - world settings outside the lab.

David Grimm — online news editor for Science — talks with Sarah Crespi about the potential of treating lab animals more like us and making them more useful for science at the same time.

Labs, companies, and others covered by the act are also required to file annual censuses like this one cataloging the number and kinds of animals in their care.

Enrichments that the animals like are added to a database that REAL shares across campus and with other labs, including those in the United States that house some 150,000 rabbits.

This year those breakthroughs include tools for reprogramming living cells and rendering lab animals transparent; ways of powering electronics with sound waves and saliva; smartphone screens that correct for the flaws in your vision; Lego - like atomic structures that could produce major advances in superconductivity research; and others.

Instead of a big farm, the region is now a wildlife park, home to animals like frilled lizards, and a reptile and amphibian research lab.

In addition, D4 causes tumors, reproductive problems, altered organ size and acts like a weak estrogen in studies of lab animals.

Egg and sperm - like cells have recently been derived from animal stem cells, and this year the first mice were born from lab - grown sperm.

Smaller animals can be taken back to the lab, but whales — like a huge blue whale that washed up dead in 2007 — have to be processed on - site.

To learn more about decay and fossilization, researchers conduct unorthodox experiments — like dissecting decomposing animals in the lab.

You get out of the lab, feel the sun on your face, and it's like you're a caged animal that has recently been set free.

In the Leg Lab, Herr and his colleagues are experimenting with a robot driven by animal - derived muscle tissue that burns glucose, just like human muscle.

That worries Gardiner and Sandoval Guzmán because the animals that they study, like many lab animals, are highly inbred.

They went on to show that the cells — when moved to new conditions — could then be coaxed to develop into functional nephron - like structures both in the lab or when transplanted into animals.

Durdu, a PhD student in Darren Gilmour's lab at EMBL, found this behaviour in specific groups of cells in the zebrafish: the cells that will develop into the animal's «lateral line», a series of ear - like organs along the fish's flank that allow it to sense changes in water pressure.

To answer basic research questions like these, investigators study bacteria, viruses, fungi, animal cells and human cells (both healthy and cancerous) grown in the lab, and tumors in animals, such as mice and rats.

Studies also showed that the chemical had hormone - like effects in wildlife and lab animals.

Using the fruit fly Drosophila, a standard lab model for studying animal biology, the researchers discovered a cascade of molecular signals that program gene activity to drive the fly from one stage of maturation to the next, like a baby turning into an adult.

Those details have been elusive because of the spaghetti - like complexity of the brain, which makes it extremely difficult for a scientist to isolate a neuron and its axon for manipulation and analysis, either in a lab dish or a lab animal.

Her previous work showed a concerning connection between carrageenan and gastrointestinal cancer in lab animals, and she's involved with ongoing research funded through the National Institutes of Health that is investigating carrageenan's effect on ulcerative colitis and other diseases like diabetes.

I would like to see the experiment performed again in another lab, to see if the results are replicable, and to be completely fair to animal products, with boiled grass - fed chicken tenders and steamed wild salmon fillets.

You won't have to look far in the ancestral health community to find characters whose diets are full of the decidedly non - «paleo» options of bacon and butter, who then seem surprised that like any lab animal fed these they've become insulin resistant and hyperlipidemic.

Since humans are not raised in confinement like lab animals, there are always sources of variability in human studies that can not be fully explained.

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She also visits modern gardens, farms, and labs to discover the science behind extraordinary plants like one - ton pumpkins, a truly black petunia, a biofuel grass that grows twelve feet tall, and the world's only photosynthesizing animal.

One path includes working with lab animals like rats and mice in a company setting.

And located on TCC's West Campus, the vet tech program sports a 20,000 squarefoot teaching facility with classrooms, clinical laboratories, a treatment area for large animals with stalls for cattle restraint, and a small animal treatment area with six wet tables to examine and treat small animals like dogs and cats, and lab animals like rabbits, rats and mice.

If you would like to learn more follow this link to Animal Planet's Dogs 101 episode on Labs and click here to read about the breed at the AKC website.

He was a decent - sized dog, a Lab and Beagle mix, who'd never met an animal or person he didn't instantly like.

Although there are animal hospitals that run these tests in house, I send them out to a central lab like VCA's Antech or TVMDL.

Like many of our staff members, Jessanna has several roles at the clinic including assisting with small animal appointments and surgery, large animal chute work, and working in our milk quality lab.

Bloat, for instance, is a life - threatening emergency affecting deep - chested dogs like Labs and can turn even the calmest dog into a restless, anxious animal.

From assisting in surgery to providing emergency care, and taking radiographs (x-rays) to running lab work, veterinary technicians help care for small, large, and exotic animals in places like veterinary hospitals, shelters, zoos, and more.

As this fight rages on, nonprofit organizations, like the Beagle Freedom Project, are looking for other ways to help lab animals escape their fate of untimely death.

To an animal's eyes, a white lab coat is like a bright glowing beacon and can be scary.

This also is prompting a drift away from science relying so heavily on artificially inducing infirmities in lab animals, like mice and rats, in order to examine those ailments, he added.

You will also have an opportunity to work with, lab animals including mice, rats and guinea pigs and exotic animals like eagles, lizards, snakes, owls, hawks, vultures, eagles, and hawks.

His research and magical collections are presented in installational still lifes that combine taxidermic animals with lab equipment artefacts, like walk - through Wunderkammers and life - sized cabinets of curiosity.

I don't like factory farms, and I don't like cruelty to animals, but how do the PETA people think we're going to be able to produce edible proteins in labs at a commercial scale?

Much like what DuPont scientists said about testicular tumors in lab animals from PFOA before it was linked to testicular cancer in people.

Not only are there a ton of apps for those curious about nature, like leaf identifiers and animal call finders, but there are also now a host of add - on gadgets that turn your phone into a mobile lab.