Sentences with phrase «research department animal»

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The 2011 recipient was Karen Schmidt, a professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry at Kansas State University, Schmidt's teaching responsibilities include Fundamentals of Milk Processing, Food Product Evaluation, Dairy Foods Processing and Technology and Quality Assurance of Food Products, and her research program focuses on processing and quality of dairy and non-dairy foods.

The integrity of the process undertaken by the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) was put into question after research by animal welfare scientists was distorted by the drafting group to appear in favour of conventional caged egg production.

A recent Ipsos MORI poll commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has shown that 76 % of Britons want to see more research into alternatives to animal testing.

The 840 - acre island off Orient Point now houses a Department of Homeland Security animal - disease research center.

«Our biggest goal is to support the management of this non-curable disease in an animal that is an economically important resource for the state of Illinois,» says Michelle Green, research assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at U of I and co-author of the animal that is an economically important resource for the state of Illinois,» says Michelle Green, research assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at U of I and co-author of the Animal Sciences at U of I and co-author of the study.

Dr. Julie Wolf, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), senior author of the study said: «In many regions of the world, livestock numbers are changing, and breeding has resulted in larger animals with higher intakes of food.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today removed public access to tens of thousands of reports that document the numbers of animals kept by research labs, companies, zoos, circuses, and animal transporters — and whether those animals are being treated humanely under the Animal Welfaranimal transporters — and whether those animals are being treated humanely under the Animal WelfarAnimal Welfare Act.

In science news around the world, the National Institutes of Health expands the definition of clinical trials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture restores previously public animal welfare records, seismologists fear the loss of a key research vessel, Brazil's indigenous tribes win land rights, and China's — and the world's — largest radio telescope gets a no - fly zone.

«Economic pressures, technological innovations, demographic shifts, consumer expectations, and an evolving regulatory framework have all contributed to the impetus for changes in the global dairy industry,» explained lead investigator Herman Barkema, DVM, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Infectious Diseases of Dairy Cattle, Department of Production Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, at the University of Calgary, Canada.

«The chemicals produced by cooking meats at high temperatures induce oxidative stress, inflammation and insulin resistance in animal studies, and these pathways may also lead to an elevated risk of developing high blood pressure,» said Gang Liu, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.

Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Animal Ecology and Physiology, Radboud University, 6500GL Nijmegen, Netherlands.

To develop and enforce tighter regulations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the Animal Welfare Act, should establish an ethics committee specifically for biomedical research on chimps.

Supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP under the aegis of its Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use (BIOTA - FAPESP, the study relied on the collaboration of the City's Animal Health Control Center and its Department of Parks & Green Areas to carry out a collection of 37,972 specimens of the family Culicidae (which gathers flies commonly known as mosquitoes) from nine municipal parks — later laboratory analysis would show that these mosquitoes belonged to 73 species and 14 genera.

The future studies on animals and humans are being supported by the Strategic Health Innovation Partnerships, a unit of the South African Medical Research Council, with funding from the Department of Science and Technology.

The first author of the article is Ana Riesgo, Juan de la Cierva researcher at the Department of Animal Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona.

A research team led by Timothy R. Nurkiewicz, Ph.D., associate professor in the WVU School of Medicine Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and researcher in the Center for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences, is finding inhalation of engineered nanomaterials negatively impacts gestational development in animal models.

Last year, the Department of Agriculture began procedures to extend the 1970 Animal Welfare Act to cover more than 20 million laboratory rats, mice, and birds — about 95 percent of all research animals.

There was an outcry from both animal welfare groups and animal research defenders 13 months ago when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) blacked out a public database containing thousands of animal welfare inspection reports, as well as records of enforcement actions that USDA took against violators of the Animal Welfare Act, including research facilanimal welfare groups and animal research defenders 13 months ago when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) blacked out a public database containing thousands of animal welfare inspection reports, as well as records of enforcement actions that USDA took against violators of the Animal Welfare Act, including research facilanimal research defenders 13 months ago when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) blacked out a public database containing thousands of animal welfare inspection reports, as well as records of enforcement actions that USDA took against violators of the Animal Welfare Act, including research facilanimal welfare inspection reports, as well as records of enforcement actions that USDA took against violators of the Animal Welfare Act, including research facilAnimal Welfare Act, including research facilities.

Pattnaik's co-authors on the glycosylation research were Arun S. Annamalai, Aryamav Pattnaik and Bikash R. Sahoo, graduate research assistants in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; assistant professor Satish Kumar Natarajan and post-doctoral researcher Ezhumalai Muthukrishnan from the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences; David Steffen, a professor with the Veterinary Diagnostic Center; assistant professor Hiep Vu from the Department of Animal Science; Gustavo Delhon, director of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Fernando Osorio, professor with the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Thomas M. Petro, oral biology professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center; and Shi - hua Xiang, assistant professor with the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

In perhaps its most dramatic step, Congress would withhold more than $ 57 million from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) if the ARS doesn't update its animal care policies and ensure it has fully functioning Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees at 50 - odd locations across the coanimal care policies and ensure it has fully functioning Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees at 50 - odd locations across the coAnimal Care and Use Committees at 50 - odd locations across the country.

(Update, 9:26 pm Statement from New Iberia:» Nothing in the videos alter the fact that the New Iberia Research Center is in compliance with all federal standards and guidelines regarding the care and use of animals, as determined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control.»)

The study's lead author, Patricia Lopes from the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that previous research in wild animals has generally ignored how this change in behaviour may affect social contacts in a group and how, in turn, these changes can impact the transmission of a disease.

Conventionally, feedlot managers would divert this liquid into huge, smelly ponds or lagoons — some 10 - feet deep or more, explains Bryan L. Woodbury, an agricultural engineer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Nebraska.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Laura Nelson, assistant professor in the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences (SCS) and principal investigator in the project, has been awarded a 2 - year grant to fund research on the causes of Gastric dilatation - volvulus (GDV) in dogs.

► «The number of federally regulated animals used in U.S. biomedical research dropped last year to its lowest level since data collection began in 1972, according to new statistics posted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA),» David Grimm reported later at ScienceInsider.

Members of the team are the Department of Wildlife Diseases research of the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin (IZW) headed by Alex Greenwood, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Center for Research in Animal Microbiology (CENID - INIFAP) among other institutions in Mexico and the Centre for Geogenetics of the Natural History Museum of research of the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin (IZW) headed by Alex Greenwood, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Center for Research in Animal Microbiology (CENID - INIFAP) among other institutions in Mexico and the Centre for Geogenetics of the Natural History Museum of Research in Berlin (IZW) headed by Alex Greenwood, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Center for Research in Animal Microbiology (CENID - INIFAP) among other institutions in Mexico and the Centre for Geogenetics of the Natural History Museum of Research in Animal Microbiology (CENID - INIFAP) among other institutions in Mexico and the Centre for Geogenetics of the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

«We've long known about biofluorescence underwater in organisms like corals, jellyfish, and even in land animals like butterflies and parrots, but fish biofluorescence has been reported in only a few research publications,» said co-lead author John Sparks, a curator in the Museum's Department of Ichthyology.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture late last week removed public access to tens of thousands of reports that document the numbers of animals kept by research labs, companies, zoos, circuses, and animal transporters — and whether those animals are being treated humanely under the Animal Welfaranimal transporters — and whether those animals are being treated humanely under the Animal WelfarAnimal Welfare Act.

Experts Lluís Cardona, Àlex Aguilar and Marcel Clusa from the Department of Animal Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona (UB), and Carlos Carreras and Marta Pascual (member of IRBio), from the Department of Genetics of UB, participated in these studies.

For his postdoc, Guttal moved to the laboratory of Iain Couzin in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University to study self - organized movement in animal groups, returning to the interest that had drawn him to research years before.

«This work adds a significant piece to our understanding of the role of microbes in shaping animal ecology and behavior, and raises new questions about these relationships and how to exploit them for managing pests — hallmarks of excellent research,» said John Ruberson, head of the entomology department.

Arthur Spanier, an animal physiologist at the US Department of Agriculture's Southern Regional Research Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, says that it is a peptide chain of eight amino acids.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is the arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for inspecting animal research facilities and other animal enterprises to ensure their compliance with the Animal Welfare Act Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is the arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for inspecting animal research facilities and other animal enterprises to ensure their compliance with the Animal Welfare Act animal research facilities and other animal enterprises to ensure their compliance with the Animal Welfare Act animal enterprises to ensure their compliance with the Animal Welfare Act Animal Welfare Act (AWA).

Large Animal Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.

(In Germany, decisions of whether to grant an animal research license are made by a local political panel, whereas U.K. licenses are granted by the government's Home Office department.)

«We hope they will take this [report] into account,» Bobrow says, and establish better cooperation between the U.K. Home Office, which regulates animal research, and the Department of Health, which oversees research with human subjects.

The study, performed in an animal model, was the first to identify growth differentiation factor 10, or GDF10, a molecule that previously had no known role in the adult brain, said Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael, the study's senior author and a professor and vice chair for research and programs in the UCLA department of neurology.

The new characteristics of Nitrospira were discovered in bacteria cultured from biofilters attached to fish tanks at the Animal Physiology research department, located a few floors below the Microbiology department at Radboud University.

The number of federally regulated animals used in U.S. biomedical research dropped last year to its lowest level since data collection began in 1972, according to new statistics posted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

«We are at a point in our research where we have validated the efficacy of this combination treatment approach in preclinical animal models, and we now need to define its safety through toxicology and pharmacology studies,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey, chairman of VCU School of Medicine's Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular Mresearch where we have validated the efficacy of this combination treatment approach in preclinical animal models, and we now need to define its safety through toxicology and pharmacology studies,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey, chairman of VCU School of Medicine's Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular MResearch and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey, chairman of VCU School of Medicine's Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular Mresearch program at VCU Massey, chairman of VCU School of Medicine's Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine.

«While there may have been some speculation that the shape of the seahorse tail allows the animals to grasp objects more tightly, past research has concentrated more on how the tail's complex musculoskeletal organization, not its shape, affects grasping,» said co-author Dominique Adriaens, a professor in the department of evolutionary morphology at Ghent University in Belgium.

Co-authors are biomedical sciences professor Gordon Kirby, former research associate Monica Antenos, and Prof. Jim Squires of U of G's Department of Animal and Poultry Science.

The study was led by the Penn School of Veterinary Medicine's Manti Guha, a senior research investigator, and Narayan Avadhani, Harriet Ellison Woodward Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Animal Biology.

Ahead of us now is the major task of exploring the potential of new drug targets, so that hopefully we can prevent the number of people with untreatable infections from escalating further,» says Professor Anders Miki Bojesen, who coordinates the UC - Care research activities at the Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences.

A team at the OU's Integrated Waste Systems (IWS) research group is working on an ambitious partnership worth around # 250,000 with a UK SME, and funded by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to develop a new type of biodegradable single - use plastic carrier bags that is recyclable, biodegradable and will have no harmful effects on plants or animals.

In collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), researchers in the UPV / EHU's «Nutrition and Obesity» Group, which belongs to the Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn) of the Carlos III Institute of Health, have observed in animal models that its administration reduces the build - up of body fat, which could reduce the risk of developing other diseases like diabetes.

New research, published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Oxford, Department of Zoology, tracked the evolutionary history of 106 bacterial symbioses, in a range of animal plant and fungi species.