Sentences with phrase «animal research labs»

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) plans to outsource to private parties the inspections required for operations regulated by the Animal Welfare Act, including puppy mills, animal exhibitions, and animal research labs.

A few days after the records disappeared from the USDA's website, The HSUS sent a notice to the Department of Justice that the agency was in violation of a 2009 court - ordered settlement requiring it to post online certain annual reports from animal research labs, which describe how many of each species of animal was used and what kinds of pain and distress they endured.

A federal investigation into animal research labs at the University of Utah has flagged several infractions, but concludes that overall the labs are «in good order.»

(The University of Cambridge abandoned plans in 2004 for a primate research lab, and activists have targeted an animal research lab being built by the University of Oxford.)

In addition to the French legislation, cosmetics testing on animals was banned in Europe in 2013, Congress requested an investigation of a government - funded animal research lab in 2014 and the Ringling Brothers finally decided to retire all its circus elephants by 2018.

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There is evidence the virus escaped from either the Institute for Animal Health or, more likely, the private Merial research lab.

Research on lab animals has shown that the number of hypothalamus stem cells diminishes with age.

Students can go to our Nevada Agriculture Experiment Station in the morning, follow animal harvest activities in our USDA - inspected meat processing plant, learn about animal welfare practices and spend the afternoon in the lab developing research.»

The research is part of a growing field called ecoimmunology, which aims to push the study of immunology beyond lab animals like fruit flies and mice and understand how immune systems function in real - world settings outside the lab.

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.

«I can't think of any right - wing groups that have taken on animal research before,» says Tom Holder, the director of Speaking of Research, an international organization that supports the use of animals in scientifresearch before,» says Tom Holder, the director of Speaking of Research, an international organization that supports the use of animals in scientifResearch, an international organization that supports the use of animals in scientific labs.

For example, Conry said there is a lot of research on the effects of BPA, particularly in lab animals, but doctors don't know how to interpret the results.

Goodman's papers have questioned the validity of the university committees that oversee animal research, encouraged U.S. allies to explore alternatives to animals in military medical training, and wounded the reputation of the world's largest accreditor of lab animal welfare.

This year those breakthroughs include tools for reprogramming living cells and rendering lab animals transparent; ways of powering electronics with sound waves and saliva; smartphone screens that correct for the flaws in your vision; Lego - like atomic structures that could produce major advances in superconductivity research; and others.

Biola lacks an animal facility, for one, and he's swamped with a teaching load that includes physiology, an introductory biology lab section, and an advanced seminar on biological research methods, all in one semester.

In the wake of a 2011 federal report concluding that chimp research is scientifically unnecessary, an animal rights group wants the NIH director to to ensure that chimps still in agency labs are retired

Wendy Jarrett, chief executive of a London - based group called «Understanding Animal Research,» says that «Explaining what really goes on inside labs is the best way to counter the sometimes hysterical claims of so - called animal rights activists.&Animal Research,» says that «Explaining what really goes on inside labs is the best way to counter the sometimes hysterical claims of so - called animal rights activists.&animal rights activists.»

Instead of a big farm, the region is now a wildlife park, home to animals like frilled lizards, and a reptile and amphibian research lab.

Maine also approved bond measures to create an animal and plant disease and insect control lab, build a genomics and disease research center, and modernize and expand a biological lab specializing in tissue repair and regeneration.

Yet from 2015 to mid-2017, only 73 chimpanzees entered sanctuaries, leaving nearly 600 of the animals in labs; half were owned by the government, half by private research facilities.

To better determine the role of specific chemoattractants in type III hypersensitivity, lead author Yoshishige Miyabe, MD, PhD, a research fellow in Luster's lab, used multiphoton intravital microscopy — an imaging technology pioneered for studies of immune cell movements in living animals by CIID investigator and co-author Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD — to follow in real time the development of IC - induced arthritis in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis.

The animals had lived in zoos, research labs and sanctuaries, and had, therefore, been exposed to different stimuli and undergone different cognitive tests.

Last week the committee released a survey done by a private advocacy group that found that many of the country's leading research labs do not follow voluntary guidelines for the humane treatment of animals issued in 1992 by the Indian National Science Academy.»

Tom Holder — the director of Speaking of Research, an international organization that supports the use of animals in scientific labs — says he hopes the agency doesn't bow to political or animal rights pressure.

In the summer of 1990, Chris, Chuck, and I went to work lining up the topics: professional standards, lab safety, animal and human research, research funding, and scientific careers.

The fish offer a fresh opportunity to find out how animals can thrive with traits that would sicken humans, said co-senior author Nicolas Rohner, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Tabin lab who is now an assistant investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, and an assistant professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Suspecting that the disease works differently in humans, whose brains are much bigger and more complex than those of lab animals, Brivanlou, along with research associates Albert Ruzo and Gist Croft, developed a cell - based human system for their research.

The causes of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.

Research on lab animals has shown some of the chemicals cause cancerous tumors and damage developing brain cells, and some can alter hormones essential to reproductive and neurological development.

However, animals that had mutations with Pcdha9, but not Sap130, can display defects in the aorta, but with normal - sized left ventricles, suggesting interaction between the two genes is needed to cause all the features of HLHS,» said Xiaoqin Liu, M.D., Ph.D., the first author of the new study and a research instructor in Lo's lab.

In 2012, more than 40 biomedical organizations signed a Declaration on Openness on Animal Research; the new concordat, which grew out of that declaration, was informed by consultations with the public and journalists and has been signed by 72 universities, government labs, research charities, drug companies, learned societies, trade associations, and research cResearch; the new concordat, which grew out of that declaration, was informed by consultations with the public and journalists and has been signed by 72 universities, government labs, research charities, drug companies, learned societies, trade associations, and research cresearch charities, drug companies, learned societies, trade associations, and research cresearch councils.

Raghu Kalluri, a cancer biologist at MD Anderson, managed to return to his lab this morning to find everything in working order: Freezers full of important samples had been protected by backup generators, and facilities housing research animals had stayed dry.

Daniel Villarreal, a graduate student in the Weiner lab, and colleagues report in Cancer Research this week that the protein IL - 33 boosts the immune system of a human papilloma virus animal model of cancer.

«It's irresponsible and dangerous,» says Tom Holder, the director of Speaking of Research, a U.K. - based organization that supports the use of animals in scientific labs.

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.

Jentsch eventually moved and hired security guards, but he has continued his research and has become a vocal proponent for the use of lab animals.

He teamed up with Robert Seder of the Vaccine Research Center (VCR) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, and scientists at other labs to test immune responses to the vaccine in animals.

Several scientists and research organizations praised the decision to stick with the existing E.U. legislation on the protection of research animals, saying it is drafted to help reduce, refine, and replace the use of animals in the lab.

That active engagement included posting online endorsements from experienced scientists and others, providing compelling «lab notes» containing updates and project background, and offering donors a nonmonetary reward such as visits to the research lab and, in the case of wildlife studies, offering photographs of subject animals.

Almost every animal behavior studied in the lab, from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math, is affected by stress, notes Paul Flecknell, a veterinary anesthesiologist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who researches ways to alleviate pain in animals.

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.

The standard method of doing this research replaces slugs with a lab dish containing the animals» nerve cells.

She supported herself as a lab tech in nearby Durham's Research Triangle Park — a job she got because having grown up hunting rabbits and squirrels, she didn't feel queasy about sacrificing lab animals.

The immunological benefits from the wild mice's gut bacteria may, in part, explain a persistent problem in disease research: Why disease experiments in lab mice, such as vaccine studies, turn out very differently in humans or other animals.

And the U.S. military's research arm announced it will fund efforts by several high - profile genetics labs to develop ways to reverse or limit the spread of an introduced gene if it should have unintended consequences on animals or an ecosystem.

The University of Texas Medical Branch, with whom Sandia enjoys a years - long partnership, together with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif., are providing Sandia with expert insight into toxins and diseases at animal lab facilities.

Finally, some researchers worry that even though these registries are supposed to reduce the number of animals in biomedical research, their labs may end up using more animals because they feel they need larger sample sizes to conduct more robust research as part of these registries.

Committee Work and Service: Professional: Faculty member of the CSHL Infrastructure and Training to Bring Next - generation Sequence (NGS) Analysis Into Undergraduate Education; Diversity committees for the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) and American Society of Andrology; Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society (vice-president and co-chair student research funding with Mary Shaw), Reviewer for a variety of scientific journals (Lab Animal, Andrology, Asian J Andrology, Reproduction, Cell and Tissue ReResearch Society (vice-president and co-chair student research funding with Mary Shaw), Reviewer for a variety of scientific journals (Lab Animal, Andrology, Asian J Andrology, Reproduction, Cell and Tissue Reresearch funding with Mary Shaw), Reviewer for a variety of scientific journals (Lab Animal, Andrology, Asian J Andrology, Reproduction, Cell and Tissue ResearchResearch).

Edward A. Ulman, Ph.D. - President Research Diets, Inc. is owned and managed by Edward A. Ulman, Ph.D., who has worked exclusively in lab animal nutrition for over 30 years.

Since most of the research work still focuses on early basic science work and studies in animals, the funding has mainly created jobs tied to laboratory construction and positions for new scientists, assistants and lab technicians, the study said.