Sentences with phrase «when lab animals»

When lab animals received four weeks of treatment with capsaicin, it was observed that prostate cancer growth and size significantly decreased.

They found that when lab animals were fed a carb - free diet, they survived highly aggressive metastatic cancer better than those treated with chemotherapy.

One study found that when lab animals were allowed to eat freely on every other day, they actually consumed the same total number of calories as a group that was allowed to eat freely every day.

Not exact matches

San Martin of the alt - meat lab offered that he feels horrible whenever he sees any information on the mistreatment of animals, «but when I go to the supermarket and eat ham, I don't see the connection.

«when run through a simulated dishwasher 50 to 75 times, name - brand baby bottles leach the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in levels that have caused reproductive abnormalities in lab animals...» This is one of the highest - volume produced chemicals in the world,» says Fredrick vom Saal, a Missouri biology professor and BPA researcher.

They say a new study found that, when exposed to heat, baby bottles release a chemical that, researchers say, has been linked to obesity, diabetes and developmental problems in lab animals.

Researchers hope the organoids will be better than lab animals or cells growing in culture at revealing how the human brain develops, both normally and when things go awry, and identify potential therapeutic or genome - editing targets.

HOUSTON — Years of scientific work were almost certainly destroyed and perhaps tens of thousands of lab animals drowned when a second burst from Tropical Storm Allison hit here this weekend.

When animals treated this way had been deprived of salt, they did not distinguish between salty water and plain water, a paper from Zuker's lab reported — just as you would expect if that channel, called ENaC, were required for tasting salt.

«[These are] basic data about animal use and compliance that taxpayers have a right to access, particularly when it comes to taxpayer - funded labs,» says Justin Goodman, vice president of advocacy and public policy at the White Coat Waste Project, a Washington, D.C. — based group that opposes taxpayer - funded animal experiments.

Now, I am not saying that animals are miniature humans with somewhat lower - octane mental powers, although when Alex strutted around the lab and gave orders to all and sundry, he gave the appearance of being a feathery Napoleon.

But scientists working on a way to repair the vital organ have now engineered tissue that closely mimics natural heart muscle that beats, not only in a lab dish but also when implanted into animals.

When each owner brought his or her animal into the lab, the researchers collected urine from both and then asked the owners to interact with their animal in a room together for 30 minutes.

I think about that scene when I hear the way many of my environmentalist friends talk about genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, an ill - fitting term that has come to stand for plants, animals and other living things whose genes have been directly manipulated in the lab using the techniques of modern biotechnology.

Who needs whole animals when you can grow burgers and sausages from their cells alone, in the lab — and do your bit for the environment too

Researchers have grown vocal cord tissue in the lab, and it works — the tissue was able to produce sound when it was transplanted into intact voice boxes from animals, according to a new study.

The page states that the lab investigates various aspects of monkey behavior, including how this behavior changes when the animals are raised in different environments.

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.

He's long suspected that lab animals respond differently to the sensation when researchers are present.

Since then, he and his colleagues have shown in lab studies of rodents and pythons that these animals grow up bigger and faster when they eat cooked meat instead of raw meat — and that it takes less energy to digest cooked meat than raw meat.

Experiments performed by coauthor Mireia Uribe - Herranz, PhD, a research associate in Facciabene's lab, demonstrate that when ACT was performed on genetically identical animals obtained from different vendors (Jackson Laboratory or Harlan Laboratories), which carry different microbiota, impact of the therapy was not identical.

In this new study, Kandel's former student, John H. Byrne, who heads the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has brought a new twist to the original learning method developed in Kandel's lab — a technique that consisted of shocking slug tails at regular intervals and then seeing whether the animals overreacted later when receiving another zap, a sign that they remembered their tormentors all too well.

Ellen Heber - Katz, an immunologist at the Wistar Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, came upon the peculiar animals when she ordered lab mice bred for studying the overactive immune response in lupus.

Floris van Breugel, a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Michael Dickinson, professor of bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology, found that animals (specifically, fruit flies), are more attracted to visual features, even when exposed to an attractive odor.

If a scientist chooses to use a certain animal in a lab environment, it makes a lot of sense to choose the same animal when testing similar or related research.

The Briggs lab dug into a nearly 50 - year old mystery when they began investigating the Tully monster (Tullimonstrum gregarium)-- an animal found in 300 million year old coal deposits in northeastern Illinois.

More than 6,000 papers have been published on these so - called beta glucans, but almost all the data about preventing infections had come from petri dish or lab animal studies, until a few years ago when a series of experiments on athletes showed beneficial effects — but that was in marathon runners.

When the marketers say natural, what they mean is that the product is animal - based or plant - based, and the term may lead you to imagine it was not synthesized in a lab.

When researchers want to make a lab animal diabetic they overload the diet with fat.

When the owners adopted a black Lab who showed up on their doorstep, this was more entertainment for Bentley: another animal to tease.

Our animal clinic diagnosis pets with obesity by using an assemblage of weight charts, body scoring and lab work when necessary.

Jordie Cross posting for Sacred Hearts Animal RescueJordie came into rescue when he was only a 7 week old puppy along with his brothers and sisters and his lab boxer mix momma.

I got my Boxer Lab mix from the Animal Shelter when she was 8 weeks old.

Both the black cat and dog are doomed when they are brought to a pound because black animals, particularly black labs or lab mixes, are euthanized at a horrifying rate at many pounds and shelters because people pass them up for lighter - colored dogs.

When Benjamin Lewis was in veterinary school at the University of Pennsylvania, he worked both in vets» offices caring for sick animals, and in research labs where healthy animals were injected with diseases for drug testing.

She traces her own passion for animals and aspiration to be a veterinarian back to the age of eight, when she met Harvey, a black lab owned by family friends.

She got her start when, in the 1960s, she used academic papers written by BF Skinner's graduate students, who were working with lab animals, to figure out how to train dolphins at Sea Life Park in Hawaii.

When possible, our veterinary clinic will also monitor lab work and other data while essential oils are being used - increasing our knowledge and evidence of long term safety in the animal kingdom.

The body will never do as well on lab created or extracted nutrients, as it will do on concentrated «whole food» nutrition - and it always amazes me when someone will go through the expense and work of feeding a homemade or raw diet to an animal - but then throw in a synthetic vitamin mix or tablet to complete it!

This happens when a vaccine is injected into an animal with a suppressed immune system (caused by genetic factors, poor diet, stress, existing illness, etc.); or when the vaccine manufacturer fails to render the viral component of the vaccine harmless in the lab.

It has some fun times through the playful yet short story about four lab animals, but the fun is heightened when you play it the way it was meant to be played.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SHARP HEALTHCARE, Livermore Falls, ME (6/2010 to Present) Biology Lab Assistant • Prepare specimens for laboratory experiments by following appropriate standards and procedures • Set up, adjust, calibrate and maintain laboratory and field equipment • Troubleshoot laboratory equipment to ensure that it is in proper working order when needed during experiments • Prepare specimens that need to be used in experiments in accordance to specific instructions provided • Analyze experimental data and ensure that interpreted results are properly documented and reported • Assist in conducting research and collecting information and samples such as soil, water, plants, animals and blood • Measure and weigh compounds and other materials to be used for testing purposes • Monitor all laboratory work to ensure that it complies with set laboratory standards • Provide technical support to scientists and monitor and observe experiments to increase informational database • Feed and look after livestock and laboratory animals • Provide support to operational programs such as fish hatcheries and greenhouses