Sentences with phrase «among animal researchers»

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A team of researchers published a study first of its kind in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry in 2008 analyzing the phytoestrogen content of eggs among other animal food products and vegetarian substitutes (10).

Until recently, researchers thought cannibalism took place only among a few species in the animal kingdom and only under extraordinary circumstances.

Interdisciplinary skills, statistical and computational methods, and a holistic understanding of the physiology of animals are lacking among early - career researchers in the United Kingdom, according to a national review of vulnerable skills and capabilities published earlier this year.

Because the researchers found that CTLA4Ig was effective in suppressing hepatitis in this study, they suggest that CTLA4Ig should be among the therapeutic options investigated further as a potential therapy for patients with severe acute hepatitis B. To this end, this animal model is useful for virological and immunological analysis of HBV infection.

Chief among the criticisms were the animal's hindlimbs, significantly smaller compared with other large predatory dinosaurs, as well as other researchers» theoretical Spinosaurus models.

There's been a growing realization among diabetes researchers that human islet development differs significantly from islet development in typical laboratory animals like mice.»

To determine what level of a toxin is safe, researchers take a dose that has no observed toxicological effect in an animal and divide it by 10 once (to account for the differences between species) and then again (to account for variations among humans» ability to handle toxins); for pesticides, the dose is then divided by 10 a third time (to allow for the extraordinary sensitivity of babies and children).

Whatever the case, the researchers assert, «we suspect that exploitation of these cues is common among large animals that track moving prey through water.»

«In the long term, such wide - ranging disruptions could pose an important threat to tropical biodiversity, given the myriad ecological linkages among rainforest trees and their many dependent animal, plant and fungal species,» the researchers conclude in their paper presenting the findings, published online November 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

«If you think about the worst invasive species, ants frequently show up on those lists, and big - headed ants are among the most problematic,» said University of Illinois entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez, who led the new study with postdoctoral researcher Bill Wills.

Not only did the researchers find the fossils among the remains of undeniably aquatic animals — such as fish, sea lions, dolphins, and whales — but also this sloth had the bones of a swimmer.

Among these achievements are the development of new techniques for classifying different types of neurons; automated methods for creating wiring diagrams of the connections between cells in the mammalian brain; new ways of recording and manipulating the electrical activity of hundreds, even thousands, of cells simultaneously; and, advanced microscopes that allow researchers to visualize the activity of all the cells in the brains of small animals.

Among researchers, it is common industry knowledge to use MSG if you want to fatten up lab animals for study.

Focusing especially on immigrants who had abandoned traditional, largely planted - based, diets in favor of meatier fare in the U.S., the lead researcher said, «There can not be the slightest question that the great increase in cancer among the foreign - born over the prevalence of that disease in their native countries is due to the increased consumption of animal foods....

Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats (Felis catus) on birds in the United States: A review of recent research with conservation and management recommendations (2009) HAHF cites the 2009 paper co-authored by former Smithsonian researcher Nico Dauphiné (who resigned after being found guilty of attempted animal cruelty last year, after rat poison was found in cat food outside her apartment building) as evidence of «the incredible impact of free ranging cats on the bird populations of the U.S.» Among the many flaws in «Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats» was the authors» estimate of «117 to 157 million exotic predators,» which was based on David Jessup's inflated (and, not surprisingly, unattributed) «estimate» of «60 to 100 million feral and abandoned cats.»