Sentences with phrase «human experiments also»

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If Roberts's experiment confirmed the scientific consensus about why the internet is so compelling, it also confirmed another evolving line of research — spending time in nature is really, really good medicine for the human brain.

Microsoft's (msft) ill - fated Tay bot experiment in which online commenters taught the bot — basically software that takes on human characteristics powered by artificial intelligence — to say racist and sexist things also illustrates this point.

The theory behind it is simple: If Facebook has experimented on its users to find new and exciting ways to get us to use it in the way they'd prefer, we should also feel free to experiment on Facebook, and see if those experiments change how we think about what we share with one of the biggest repositories of human data in history.

Theo Phileo «Humans will have created life in the laboratory» There are also scientists who are experimenting in how life could have arisen naturally.

I do also recognize a hierarchy of living beings in that I regard human life as more valuable than animal life and would not oppose essential medical experiments on animals, although I am not persuaded that all experiments are essential.

Based on the amounts being found in people and what is known about the metabolism of bisphenol A from animal experiments, it also appears that human exposures are above the current U.S. safety limit, according to the assessment.

Doyle also urged the Wisconsin congressional delegation to lead the fight to repeal a federal law that bars the use of federal taxpayer money for experiments that destroy human embryos.

They also carried out controlled experiments with new bath toys, under conditions simulating household use: over a period of 11 weeks, some of the toys were exposed to clean and others to dirty bath water (including constituents such as soap, human body fluids and bacteria).

Beyond discovering how to mask the scent of humans, the team's experiments also alighted on a chemical that attracts mosquitoes.

The experiments also revealed something else: pupil dilation in humans is not altered by viewing images of chimps with either dilating or constricting pupils, and vice versa.

In experiments on zebrafish, Freiburg researchers have demonstrated that the same proteins that lead to the formation of metastases in humans also cause the cells to migrate during embryonic development.

In one experiment with human cells, a guide RNA should have led the Cas9 enzyme only to a gene on chromosome 2 (yellow bar), but it also directed the enzyme to many off - target sites (red) on several other chromosomes.

A 2017 experiment, also in China, used CRISPR to edit DNA in normal, presumably viable fertilized eggs, or one - cell human embryos.

Experiments done by Prof Chen and his team also showed that when the editable supercapacitor was paired with a sensor and placed on the human elbow, it performed better than existing stretchable supercapacitors.

In experiments with mice, the UC San Diego - led team showed that verteporfin also suppresses the growth of uveal melanoma tumors derived from human tumors.

Ludwig thinks some of neural processes that cause the type of connections in her experiments also underlie full synaesthesia in humans.

Although the experiments still need to be done, Murray believes children would also be protected by the transgenic milk because «pigs are very similar to humans in the kinds of E. coli bacteria they harbor.»

The experiments were carried out in mice, but since there are also time - of - the - day dependent differences in body temperature in humans, it is to be expected that the mechanism also plays an important role in human physiology.

2 - D cell - culture and mouse experiments also provided key evidence of the virus's modus operandi; although the rodent brain doesn't harbor the full contingent of human neural stem cells, it has blood vessels and immune - system components that organoids lack.

And not only does the LVE cut down on cost, it also allows users to print artificial human tissue on a larger scale and at higher resolution, opening doors for researchers, makers, and professionals to experiment with 3 - D printing biomaterials and fluids.

The researchers also found evidence that killer whales can learn completely new sounds: one killer whale that was living with dolphins at the time of the experiment learned to produce a chirp sequence that human caretakers had taught to her dolphin pool - mates before she was introduced to them.

«One of our experiments showed that bypassing Lin28a and directly activating mitochondrial metabolism with a small - molecule compound also had the effect of enhancing wound healing, suggesting that it could be possible to use drugs to promote tissue repair in humans.»

The antifungals tested in the experiment and used to develop the model are also used to treat fungi in humans.

In experiments involving mice injected with human GBM cells, the scientists also demonstrated that if either PTEN or DAXX were eliminated, then tumor growth occurred.

Any policy on human gene editing will also have to account for the DIY biology community — «citizen researchers» who do their own low - budget genetic experiments.

In a second group of experiments using human tissue from patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, which accounts for more than 90 percent of pancreatic cancers, Zheng and his colleagues also tracked down a link between the abundance of Sema3D in those tissues and the progression of metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Lab - based experiments can also help answer important questions about early human development and the development of sperm and eggs cells, says Robin Lovell - Badge, a developmental biologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London and a member of the Hinxton Group steering committee.

In subsequent experiments, Pissios and colleagues found that NNMT correlated positively with Sirt1 and a healthy metabolic profile in mice, and also showed that humans with low cholesterol and low triglycerides exhibited high levels of NNMT and Sirt1 in their livers.

For Gagliano, that particular experiment, published in Scientific Reports in late 2016, showed not only that plants can learn by association — which is astounding in itself — but also how easily humans underestimate plants.

Loke also mentions that colitis plagues many juvenile monkeys in primate research centers and that he has received a pilot grant to treat diseased monkeys with human whipworm, an as - yet - unpublished experiment that is already returning promising results.

Also expressing satisfaction with the cross-fertilization of the various communities represented at the Noyce Summit, Shirley Malcom, director for AAAS Education and Human Resources Programs, said it is possible to experiment with new classroom methods and then to «backfill» according to what the research bears out in order to bolster and improve preservice education of STEM teachers, and STEM education itself, as quickly as possible.

Delgado also conducted stimoceiver experiments in cats, monkeys, chimpanzees, and even human psychiatric patients.

Yet researchers debated how to interpret such experiments, and also their relevance to human evolution.

They also repeated the experiment, subbing in the same enhancer from a fish and, later, from a human.

A team headed by Professor Oliver Ullrich from the University of Zurich's Institute of Anatomy is now conducting an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) to study whether this also applies to human cells.

The American findings agree with unpublished results reported last year by researchers in Europe and Australia, who also found that cellphones could interfere with pacemakers in laboratory experiments and human tests.

Experiments conducted by lead author Fatima Syed - Picard, Ph.D., also of Pitt's Department of Ophthalmology, and the team showed that stem cells of the dental pulp, obtained from routine human third molar, or wisdom tooth, extractions performed at Pitt's School of Dental Medicine, could be turned into corneal stromal cells called keratocytes, which have the same embryonic origin.

The analysis also found that a significant fraction of tumors contained rearrangements and mutations of a gene called PREX2, and experiments confirmed that cancer - associated mutations of PREX2 promoted the growth of human melanoma cells in mice.

The researcher also pointed out that the experiments could play a role in human health research.

Similar experiments were performed demonstrating that the purified human antibodies also protected immunosuppressed hamsters against lethal disease caused by Sin Nombre virus.

Since alkaline phosphatase, coupled to the secondary antibody for the BrdU primary antibody, may have complicated the interpretation of the wounding experiments, we also treated human corneal - limbal tissues with BrdU histochemical assays in which fluorescein, rather than alkaline phosphatase, was coupled to the secondary antibody.

Gianneschi and his team found that the synthetic melanin nanoparticles in their experiments were not only absorbed and distributed normally by the keratinocytes in the epidermis, but they also protected human skin cells from UV radiation damage.

The HZI will also not only perform experiments to compare the predictive immunogenicity and efficacy of vaccines between different model species and humans but will test comparative effects of adjuvants.

In the «Proving Ground» stage that follows, the space agency will not only conduct experiments and operations in the cislunar space — the space around the moon — it will also develop and test technologies required for human exploration of Mars.

Those genes were also found in a large data set of mice who had gone through the same types of experiments, which gave the team hope that they'd be in anxious humans, too.

The DNALC has also helped teachers implement PCR - based experiments to examine human DNA polymorphisms.

They also plan to conduct similar experiments in a mouse model that more closely approximates what would happen in humans.

«Our next goal is to replicate these experiments and test their safety in larger mammals, such as pigs, before considering clinical trials in humans,» added Dr. Srivastava, who is also a professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), with which Gladstone is affiliated.

These experiments are innovative because they seek to improve a mouse model based on current knowledge from human disease, while also testing novel therapies that could be of benefit for affected individuals.

Since the discovery (in a human patient named H.M.) that hippocampal removal can lead to the inability to form new memories, the hippocampus has been studied as one of the primary sites of memory formation in the brain.12 While it has also been known since O'Keefe and Dostrovsky's initial experiments that the hippocampus plays a basic role in spatial navigation, how and why this tiny portion of the brain can host both spatial maps and complex memories has remained poorly understood.