Sentences with phrase «about animal science»

Find career information about animal science and care.

Students get to learn first - hand about the animal sciences by performing diagnostic test and x-rays.

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Through the aid of modern science we have learned so much about our physical and animal environment that we can destroy and kill with tremendous efficiency.

The ethics of authorship, obligation to cite prior work, and problems of multiple authorship have been analyzed in an article in Science.13 Others have been concerned about the humane treatment of animals, which are crucial in experimental biology and pharmacology.

Only propositions based on evidence would be tolerated, but the satisfaction of knowing the truth about nature by way of science would compensate for any ethical constraints we would still have to put on our animal instincts.

I've used sensory bins to teach kids about animal habitats, the alphabet, numbers and counting, science and STEAM and more!

Visitors will be able to see up close and learn about live raptors from the Blue Hills Trailside Museum, visit the Animal Adventures petting zoo, and take part in activities led by Boston Nature Center's teacher - naturalists as well as collaborating organizations including Boston Natural Areas Network, the Museum of Science, Renew Boston, and the U.S. Forest Service.

Learn something new and amaze your child with these fun facts about animals, food, science, the human body, and more.

There is also an opportunity to teach your preschooler about science, as you point out what makes each season different and how these changes affect all living things — for example, in the fall trees lose their leaves, many animals begin to hibernate, the weather gets colder, the sun isn't out for as long.

All I knew about training dogs was what I had learned in Science class about animals being made to behave in certain ways through rewards and punishments, so I naively (stupidly, actually) assumed that I could get Vicky to act in the ways that I had wanted by rewarding her for her good actions and punishing her for her bad ones.

I have a degree in Animal Science and I know there is a great deal of misinformation out there about cow's diets.

Watch animal cameras, learn interesting tidbits about animals, see and share photos of nature, learn about different countries and try science experiments.

This series teaches kids about seasons and weather, plants and photosynthesis, animals and habitats, health and safety, earth science, and much, much more!

Follow your curiosity about science, animals, art and the natural world.

University of Adelaide School of Molecular and Biomedical Science PhD student, Deborah Toledo - Flores, says: «the most important aspect of this work for us was to identify more genes on platypus Y chromosomes to reveal new leads about potential sex determining genes in these animals.»

«From people at UT - D, Big Bend National Park, Bell Helicopter, the Smithsonian Institution, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at UT - Austin, the dedicated staff and volunteers at the Perot Museum, and other paleontologists who offered advice and insight about these animals, so many people contributed to getting the science done and the information out there for the world to see.»

The hypoxia - treated rodents lived more than 6 months, compared with about 2 months for untreated animals, Mootha and his colleagues report online today in Science.

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 samScience — talks with Sarah Crespi about the potential of treating lab animals more like us and making them more useful for science at the samscience at the same time.

Michael Kelemen, a recruiter and host of the Recruiting Animal show, a call - in career development and recruiting radio show on BlogTalkRadio, told Science Careers, «These days it's about being first to hear about new jobs and making yourself stand out as a job candidate.

► In a story about the animal species that are winning and losing as the Arctic warms, in this week's Science, Eli Kintisch offers a peek into the extreme working and living conditions of some of the biologists, zoologists, geoscientists, oceanographers, and atmospheric scientists conducting this research.

And whereas the rest of the biological sciences can safely hide behind the behaviourist logic that we can never know what another organism, human or otherwise, is consciously experiencing, even asking a question about animal welfare forces us to conclude that we must at least try to find out.

The experience prompted Franco to start a Ph.D. in laboratory animal science; he's now about halfway through a program at IBMC.

Brian Langerhans, an assistant professor of biological sciences at NC State and a senior author on a paper describing the study, says the research could help scientists learn about the connectedness of what seem to be disconnected animal traits.

When he is not chipping away at the inner horizon or working on a popular science book about black holes, he spends time with his wife, Catherine, who shares his rugged individualism: She started her own business making and selling cruelty - free stuffed animals that can be mounted on the wall like trophy moose heads.

This month, UAR and more than 40 science organizations will publish a joint document, or concordat, laying out how they plan to be more open and transparent about their animal research work.

The findings and the techniques used to uncover them should clarify the relations between extinct species and modern - day animals and reveal more about «patterns of molecular change and the rates and directions of molecular evolution,» says Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University, who reports the work with her colleagues in the April 13 Science.

In 1996, Gregory Wray of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and his colleagues shook up these assumptions when they published a paper in Science (25 October 1996, p. 568) that — by averaging the mutation rates of eight genes shared by animals and nonanimals — estimated that animals arose about 1 billion to 1.2 billion years ago.

«You're talking about a handicapping hearing loss in the untreated animals,» Le Prell told Science News Online, versus «a hearing loss that would require minimal or no intervention in the treated animals.»

The animal lived 11.6 million years ago and would have had a body mass of about 5 kilograms, roughly the same as a modern gibbon (Science, doi.org/8vp).

The six - decade - long study on domesticating foxes in Siberia that we write about has everything from cutting - edge science to political intrigue to human / animal love stories, but perhaps more than anything else, it shows that when smart people with a passion for science pair that with almost superhuman perseverance, we can unwrap the mysteries of the world we live in.»

In March three groups reported separately in Science that they had repeated Faustman's protocols and reproduced her most important result, stopping the disease process in about half their mice and getting the animals to recover normal function.

The robotic system, described today in Science Robotics, induced cell proliferation and lengthened part of the esophagus in a large animal by about 75 percent, while the animal remained awake and mobile.

«The exciting thing about this work is that it makes species that have been essentially lost to science, due to extirpation, rarity or general secretiveness, which applies to many animals and not just snakes, available for scientific research in the modern age of genomics,» Ruane said.

For example, the flagship journal of the Public Library of Science, PLOS ONE, was the only journal that called attention to the paper's potential ethical problems, such as its lack of documentation about the treatment of animals used to generate cells for the experiment.

«We encourage our researchers to be open about this work because it's important that the public... are aware that research using animals is still an important and very necessary part of medical science.»

TOKYO — One of science's favorite lab animals, the mouse, is about to become an even more useful model system.

Separate research by Daniel Rubenstein, a Princeton University professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a co-author of the Open Science paper, and Princeton undergraduate Damaris Iriondo strongly suggests that boldly striped zebras have external body temperatures about five degrees Fahrenheit cooler than other animals of the same size — like antelopes — that do not have stripes but live in the same areas.

In this post, MDI Biological Laboratory animal core technician Karlee Markovich talks about her experience inspiring interest in science among students at a Bangor middle school as part of Maine BioScience Day.

More information about the advantages and disadvantages of the different tags can be found in the Science Buddies guide to Using Animal Tracking Data from Movebank for Science Projects.

By the time it was incorporated, the focus has expanded to include elementary and secondary education, professional development training for researchers, and outreach to the public and the media about science education, the use of animals in biomedical research, and other topics such as the harmonization of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees and Institutional Biosafety Committees, as well as monitoring legislation.

A recent article in Science (Wadman, 2017) showed that there are some fantastic examples of providing greater openness about animal research online.

Accreditation is a true commitment to humane animal care and use and shows the world that an institution is serious about ensuring animal well - being and conducting good science.

The article, by Meredith Wadman, noted some of the ways in which US and UK organizations are trying to educate the public about animal experiments including... Continue reading Science Magazine discusses the transparency surrounding animal research

«Just [to get] the amount of IGF secreted in your saliva and digestive tract in a day, you'd have to drink about 95 quarts of milk,» says Terry Etherton, PhD, a professor of dairy and animal science at Pennsylvania State University and the author of a blog about food biotechnology.

So strong has been the belief in the physical fitness value of animal - based protein that today we struggle in science to uncover the clear messages from the data that seriously question our beliefs about animal protein.

Saido's latest science report last summer about the decomposition of polystyrene plastics vests a simple reality: Bisphenol A (BPA) has been shown and proven to interfere with the reproductive systems of animals.

The science about plant vs. animal diets has been absolutely proven since the 2009 NIH study (following over half a million people over ten years) and confirmed by two Harvard University studies (following over 100,000 people for decades) that were released in 2012.

«Forks Over Knives» is about returning to that level of simplicity in our food consumption ~ ~ raw, whole foods with minimal processing with no animal product and minimal oil — the good doctors have the science behind the destruction of the endothelial lining of our blood vessels and the development of cancer and vascular disease when these animal products, processed foods and oils are consumed.

[Answer] I never try and convince people to change their convictions about eating animal products, but I do feel it's important to share my story and the science I have learned about the nutrients that our bodies need to function optimally.

Not that this this would alter your recommendations about how to eat in order to minimize the risk and / or abate the effects, but I was just wondering if you knew of any evidence to support this idea, or if it might have just been junk science aimed at promoting animal - based foods.