Sentences with phrase «allows animal experiments»

The government has recently stated its intention to amend or repeal Section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, which allows animal experiments to be carried out in secret.

Not exact matches

Due to the limited statistical and methodological certainty allowed by biological science, the occurrence of technical errors in biological experiments, the differences between human and animal embryo development, the rapidity by which the cloning procedure produces a totipotent zygote, and the philosophical and theological nature of the question, there is no biological experiment that will prove with moral certainty that a human zygote never exists during the OAR procedure.

His experiments allowed the transitive inference to be accomplished with images of the order of the stimuli in the series, though exactly how the animals reasoned is not understood.

Those who feel there is something «unnatural» about introducing human genes into animals or plants forget that we share a high proportion of our genes with these species already: it is precisely this collective heritage that allows experiments on frogs to spawn treatments for human cancer.

Building the Picture Much of what we know about how neurons allow animals to make sense of their surroundings began with experiments performed on the visual cortex of animals by David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel.

The fencing, built a decade ago, was a simple experiment to keep out grazing animals and allow biologists to study the undisturbed area.

The scientists ran an experiment on a group of rats of varying ages, allowing the animals to drink as much sweetened condensed milk as they wanted.

«The great thing about doing this on the computer is that it allows you to reduce and possibly eventually eliminate animal experiments,» Radovitzky says.

Following the five - day experiment, the animals were not allowed cocaine for 14 or 60 days.

However, it and other animal groups were less happy with other aspects of the changed directive, especially moves to allow the reuse of animals and the use of nonhuman primates in experiments not directly linked to life - threatening or debilitating diseases.

In two separate experiments, the brains of monkeys and the brains of rats are linked, allowing the animals to exchange sensory and motor information in real time to control movement or complete computations.

In separate experiments reported in the journal, the brains of monkeys and the brains of rats are linked, allowing the animals to exchange sensory and motor information in real time to control movement or complete computations.

The scientific models that do not allow for full replacement are constantly refined and reduced to keep the number of animal experiments to a minimum.

Under the proposed NIH policy, taxpayer funds would be allowed for experiments in which human cells are added to early - stage embryos of all animals except nonhuman primates, such as chimpanzees and monkeys, because they are so similar to humans.

The dual appointment allows him to conduct experiments that compare genetic programming in the highly regenerative animals used as models at the MDI Biological Laboratory with genetic programming in neonatal and adult mice.

Animal control officers do not allow experiments to continue if the mice are obviously starving.

We proposed to allow exceptions to health, vaccination, and age requirements for dogs imported for veterinary treatment that can not be obtained in the exporting country and for dogs imported for use in research, tests, or experiments if the requirement would interfere with a research protocol approved by the research facility's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).

«In one of the experiments, we were extremely lucky as the group that the tagged animal was in stayed in the same area, allowing us to track the dolphin every time it was at the surface and observe the prey with the echosounder right where and when the dolphin was foraging,» continued Arranz.