Sentences with phrase «animal researchers need»

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«Researchers and managers should consider comprehensively the divergent needs and behavioral responses of those protected animals to livestock and other human activities.

But because women respond to medications and develop some diseases differently than men, researchers need to include female lab animals, tissues and cells in their experiments, according to a Nature commentary Clayton co-wrote in May.

«NIH needs to stand up for the value of animal studies and allow its researchers to speak more clearly to the public about their work.

Because animals» energetic needs change with body size, the researchers based their calculations for replenishment and reproduction on biological scaling laws that relate body size to metabolism.

Using a new technique to deliver gene - therapy - like intervention directly where it's needed, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University successfully increased or decreased the muscle tone of the anal sphincter in appropriate animal models.

«Our study was conducted in a supervised setting, by researchers experienced in working with kids with autism spectrum disorders who understand the needs and requirements of the animals,» Dr. O'Haire said.

To understand whether and how Achaeopteryx actually flew, researchers would need to reconstruct the animal's full range of motion — a challenging prospect given that muscles don't fossilize, says Voeten, of Palacký University Olomouc in the Czech Republic.

Even if researchers could protect large numbers of Tasmanian devils with a vaccine that was 100 percent effective, those animals» immunity would not be passed on to their offspring; any vaccination program would need to go on indefinitely, a formidable challenge.

The committee would need to include not just medical researchers but also bioethicists and representatives from animal welfare groups.

Researchers note more animal studies are needed to determine whether the administration of IL - 27 can successfully treat severe illness from these viral infections.

Researchers use four different definitions to identify the dominant animal in a group: the one who can beat up everybody else but doesn't necessarily need to (remind anyone of Jesse Ventura?)

The results need be tested and confirmed in animal studies before researchers can be sure that HtrA1 is the link between ApoE4 and Alzheimer's in humans.

In addition, the connection between iron levels and oxygen production found here will help researchers to reconstruct the long - term processes behind the evolution of animals — which need high levels of oxygen.

In those days, most researchers were using fMRI on anaesthetized animals, because the animals needed to be completely still.

Depending on the type of study, some researchers might need twice as many animals, he found.

«Usually, when researchers want a mouse or other animal model to express fluorescent proteins in certain cells, they need to develop genetically modified animals that can take months to years to make and characterize,» says former graduate student and first author Ken Chan (PhD» 17).

And without a three - month limit, the researchers could give the animals as much time as needed to acclimate to a bizarre new game.

In addition, «since no animal models of fibromyalgia exist, our model provides a much - needed tool for understanding what makes current fibromyalgia drugs efficacious and for finding more effective drugs,» the researchers wrote.

The internet is peppered with videos of these animals» amazing feats, and biomechanics researchers Ryan Lewinson and Darren Stefanyshyn of the University of Calgary saw an opportunity: There was no need to go to the mountain goats when they could simply go to YouTube.

While more data are needed to improve the model, and it is unclear if it can be extrapolated to animals of much larger body mass, the researchers hope that it might help predict features of non-avian dinosaur locomotion using data from fossils and footprints.

Researchers still need to test the treatment in animals, which could take several years.

Researchers say the results in lab animals, while encouraging, need to be replicated and note that competing tests are also under development.

According to the researchers, the total dependence of Neanderthals on large animals to answer their fat and protein needs may provide a clue to their eventual extinction, which took place at the same time as the beginning of the demise of giant animals or «Megafauna» in Europe some 50,000 years ago.

More studies are needed to determine whether other birds and animals behave in a similar way, but the researchers suggest that installing special lights on planes could alert birds to begin their escape from a longer distance away.

The researchers said further animal testing is needed to determine optimal dosage, dosing frequency and other factors.

In experiments described in a paper published online today in Cell, the researchers gave mice a molecule that blocks the insulin receptor on cells, tricking the animals» bodies into reacting as if they needed more insulin and producing more β cells.

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.

With regard to animals» earthquake prediction potential, researchers suggest that in future studies, perhaps a quantitative definition of «unusual or abnormal behavior» is needed, as well as actual explanations behind the change in behavior.

Through «heart - on - a-chip» technology — modeling a human heart on an engineered chip and measuring the effects of compound exposure using microelectrodes — Lawrence Livermore researchers hope to ensure potentially lifesaving new drugs are safe and effective while reducing the need for human and animal testing.

Through «heart - on - a-chip» technology — modeling a human heart on an engineered chip and measuring the effects of compound exposure on functions of heart tissue using microelectrodes — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers hope to decrease the time needed for new drug trials and ensure potentially lifesaving drugs are safe and effective while reducing the need for human and animal testing.

The researchers used optogenetics to influence PV - cell activity during the seconds the animals needed to be attentive.

New gene - editing techniques let researchers create precisely the laboratory animals they need — but at what ethical cost?

«Treatment for these people is greatly needed, and there really are very few highly valid animal models of the disorder,» said Shanahan, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago.

Not all researchers agree on the relationship between pet ownership and health, but animal lovers don't need much convincing.

Animal experts, advocates, and researchers underscore the need for continuing the USDA's decades - long transparency.

The Veterinary Technology / Animal Health program provides you with the skills and knowledge you'll need to function as a professional veterinary technician providing support to veterinarians, biomedical researchers and other scientists, animal control, and humane organizaAnimal Health program provides you with the skills and knowledge you'll need to function as a professional veterinary technician providing support to veterinarians, biomedical researchers and other scientists, animal control, and humane organizaanimal control, and humane organizations.

Animal vaccine researcher Dr Ronald Schultz says, «Few or no scientific studies have demonstrated a need for cats or dogs to be revaccinated.»

The nation's growing demographic diversity and the increasing impact of globalization underscores the need to prepare future companion animal veterinarians, food animal veterinarians, public health veterinarians and veterinary researchers, educators, and scientists with the knowledge, skill and cultural sensitivity to productively engage this complex emerging environment.

On July 20, 2008, Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. announced the donation of its feline genome database to the Morris Animal Foundation to ensure that researchers have what they need to further advance feline health.

Dogs that were less fearful, more active and less aggressive toward people and other animals seemed to fulfill their owners» needs the best, the researchers found.

The Betty White Wildlife Rapid Response Fund, established in October 2010, gives wildlife researchers timely monetary aid to respond to unexpected events, such as natural disasters and emerging diseases, which result in the need for emergency animal health research funding.

They have great researchers to get training and evaluation for keeping the name of the organization and fulfilling their needs to work in the best way in creating laws for animals and making sure that they are followed well for the best treatment of all creatures.