Sentences with phrase «animal researchers against»

On Monday, a U.K. court convicted four animal - rights activists of threatening companies that supply an animal testing laboratory, a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks.

In a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks, a British court yesterday convicted four people of conspiring to blackmail companies that supply an animal testing laboratory.

Not exact matches

For the past three decades, researchers and health workers have engaged in a similar battle against one of the most cunning viruses to afflict humanity and much of the animal world: the dread influenza virus.

The amicus brief cited examples from an array of groups increasingly using public records laws to gain access to emails beyond those of climate scientists, including animal rights groups that have long waged legal battles against researchers who use animals in their studies and opponents of genetically modified organisms seeking to expose the emails of scientists in efforts to demonstrate links to industry.

Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.

In a first for any animal, including humans, four cows injected with a type of HIV protein rapidly produced powerful antibodies against the virus, researchers report.

The researchers then took blood samples from the dogs, developed DNA profiles for each animal and compared the DNA findings against the staff's initial assessments.

Researchers who conduct animal studies often don't use simple safeguards against biases that have become standard in human clinical trials — or at least they don't report doing so in their scientific papers, making it impossible for readers to ascertain the quality of the work, an analysis of more than 2500 journal articles shows.

Some will argue against a new layer of regulation — yet, researchers continued to make new discoveries after new federal standards on human subjects, care of research animals, and so on brought sweeping improvements to practices that had formerly produced unacceptable results.

When the researchers injected mice with antibodies from vaccinated people in the study, the animals were protected against subsequent exposure to Zika virus, unlike mice that were injected with antibodies from participants who received placebo.

The researchers can then check the genetic sequences against databases to learn which plants or animals they come from.

Insight into this mechanism led the researchers to design new peptides — snippets of the human B7 - 2 receptor protein — that powerfully block the binding of a superantigen to its costimulatory receptor targets, and thereby protect against lethal toxic shock, as they showed in animals.

There have been several pointed attacks against researchers who use animals in their experiments in Germany.

Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have developed new potential vaccines that protect animals against the bacteria that causes the deadly plague.

Researchers at the University of Maryland and Duke University have designed a novel protein - sugar vaccine candidate that, in an animal model, stimulated an immune response against sugars that form a protective shield around HIV.

In experiments in animals, researchers from the University of Michigan Medical School showed that adding rapamycin to an immunotherapy approach strengthened the immune response against brain tumor cells.

Although the scientific community widely sees nonhuman primates as essential for advances in biomedicine (they have facilitated major gains in the fights against AIDS and neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, for example), researchers agree more can be done to treat the animals more humanely and conduct research less wastefully.

Now, researchers at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and their colleagues have shown that amyloid - β can protect against yeast and bacterial infections in two animal models, as well as in cultured human cells.

When they plotted the number of tracks against the dose of radioactive Cesium experienced in different parts of the reserve, the researchers found that radiation levels aren't correlated with animal abundance.

In another study, researchers found that boron supplements can increase bone formation and help to protect against osteoporosis in animals.

Now, a researcher with funding from Morris Animal Foundation is investigating a new way to vaccinate bats against rabies.

Veterinary oncologists and medical researchers studying pet animal cancer are perhaps the single most untapped source of relevant clinical data in the fight against cancer in people.

She was one of eight recipients of a Young Researchers Award, each worth ￡ 10,000, which is part of the 2017 Lush Prize awarded by Lush Cosmetics for innovations in the fight against animal testing.

Using the Ethical Consumer's extensive database, our researchers rate both the product and the company behind the product against more than 20 animal welfare, environmental and human rights criteria.

It is the same sort of loss of perspective (although less extreme in degree) as that which leads animal rights activists to commit crimes against researchers.

Eric Sanford, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, and co-author of the study said that «there are likely limits to how much this mechanism can buffer this animal against global change.»