Sentences with phrase «animal scientist at»

This should have an impact particularly on E. coli based gastrointestinal diseases, says Jim Murray, an animal scientist at the University of California, Davis, and an author of the study.

A team led by animal scientists Steven Stice of Advanced Cell Technology Inc. and James Robl, an animal scientist at the University of Massachusetts, both in Amherst, added foreign DNA to lab - grown cow fetal cells.

Another, less well known certification in animal behavior for animal scientists is offered by the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists at

Reading from theGuardian (u supply the url I'm too busy), «The probability prize was awarded to animal scientists at Scotland's Rural College for making two related discoveries.

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Scientists have warned that the routine use of antibiotics to promote growth and prevent illness in healthy farms animals contributes to the rise of dangerous, antibiotic - resistant superbug infections, which kill at least 23,000 Americans each year and pose a significant threat to global health.

All the animals completed a series of cognitive tests at the start of the study and were injected with a substance that allows scientists to track changes in their brain structures.

Food scientists are examining animal products at the molecular level and sourcing plants with matching proteins and nutrients to create delicious plant - based meats, eggs, and dairy products that are healthier and more sustainable than conventional animal products.

Scientists at the University of California - Davis are building chimeras and conceivably blurring the line between humans and animals.

Apr. 8, 2013 — At some point, scientists may be able to bring back extinct animals, and perhaps early humans, raising questions of ethics and environmental disruption.

This summer, a group of scientists at a conference on «Consciousness in Human and Non-Human Animals» issued a statement (PDF) declaring: Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of consciAnimals» issued a statement (PDF) declaring: Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscianimals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious....

Below I shall quote at length from a distinguished scientist who has admirably summed up the qualities that differentiate human beings from the animals to which biologically they are related.

Then, as the twentieth century progressed and doctors and scientists began to point an accusing finger at artery - clogging animal fats, pork producers responded by raising leaner hogs.

«Smartest Food Scientist on Earth» Researchers at the Not Company (NotCo), a food - tech startup based in Chile, have developed food products that are made completely of plants but tastes like animal food.

What should you make of a news story about a disease or medical treatment if the scientists looked at animals, not people?

The Soil Association, which has long been at the head of the British organic movement, was founded in 1946, by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists who posited direct connections between farming practice and plant, animal, human and environmental health.

Scientists figured that out by looking at conflicts across the continent dating back to 1946 and tying them to information about how many animals were in nearby protected areas.

The final rules, adopted late last month, would instead place primary responsibility in the hands of animal ethics committees at individual universities and institutes, avoiding a bottleneck that scientists feared could stifle research.

Scientists at Duke Health who developed the new model also discovered that targeting a brain receptor in mice with this type of autism could ease repetitive behaviors and improve learning in some animals.

Ellen Heber - Katz, a scientist at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, used to study autoimmunity — that was until she noticed something strange in the mice she was using to model lupus: The small holes that she had poked in their ears to distinguish the animals from one another kept closing.

And, for the first time among primates, the scientists observed that the maximum lifespan had increased: almost a third of the calorie - restricted animals were still alive when the last animal in the control group died at the aged of 11.3 years.

At least at the level of multicellular creatures — fungi, animals, plants, algae — scientists are pretty sure that DNA - based life forms did beat out their competition (just look aroundAt least at the level of multicellular creatures — fungi, animals, plants, algae — scientists are pretty sure that DNA - based life forms did beat out their competition (just look aroundat the level of multicellular creatures — fungi, animals, plants, algae — scientists are pretty sure that DNA - based life forms did beat out their competition (just look around).

An acquaintance at NIH, who also knew Bartke, suggested that the two scientists study the animals» abnormal reproductive endocrinology together.

«We're trying to control these animals so much, they're no longer useful,» says Joseph Garner, a behavioral scientist who runs a program to improve the value and welfare of lab animals at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Just by looking at the activation of these two neural populations, the scientists could reliably determine whether an animal was interacting with a male or a female.

Led by scientists from ZSL (Zoological Society of London) and published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, the study highlights how African wild dogs — already classified as Endangered by the IUCN Red List — raise fewer pups at high temperatures.

But the models also indicated that the birds» coordination would have to be exceptionally precise to make a difference, and many scientists had doubted that the animals could achieve such a feat during flight, says ecophysiologist Steven Portugal at the Royal Veterinary College in Hatfield, UK.

Nath is studying sleep in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, but whenever he presented his work at research conferences, other scientists scoffed at the idea that such a simple animal could sleep.

Arnold Kriegstein, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, also argues that though the scientists found inhibitory interneurons strikingly depleted in the brains of the oxygen - deprived piglets, this alone can not account for the dramatic shrinking of the animals» overall brain size and the diminished number of cortical folds «The interneurons are part of the story but not the entire story of how the brain is affected by this kind of [lack of oxygen].»

But last week, at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Calgary, Canada, a team of scientists suggested a different killer: harmful algal blooms in the very water that had lured the animals.

If resurrecting an extinct species is successful, scientists couldn't stop at just one or two animals.

The scientists are now expanding their research to larger numbers of animals and they are also planning a study to look at addiction - like behaviours in obese people to see how well their results translate to humans.

Now, scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania reveal that the release of AMPs is partially controlled by bitter taste receptors in the upper airway on a cell previously identified in animals and only recently in humans known as solitary chemosensory cells (SCCs).

In 1950, American farmers rejoiced at news from a New York laboratory: A team of scientists had discovered that adding antibiotics to livestock feed accelerated animals» growth and cost less than conventional feed supplements.

Often, those smaller animals express the genetic abnormality very differently from humans, says clinical scientist and pediatric neurologist James Dowling at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who studies the myopathies and their genetic causes in both children and zebrafish.

• Thursday on ScienceInsider, Marta Paterlini reported that fliers posted anonymously in Milan, included the photos, home addresses, and telephone numbers of scientists involved in animal research at the University of Milan and labeled the researchers «murderers.»

Biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists have begun cooperating on a sophisticated «systems biology» aimed at understanding how the countless molecular interactions at the heart of life fit together in the workings of cells, organs, and whole animals.

In animal models or petri dishes, scientists disable one gene at a time to see how it affects the proposed network.

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have identified a molecule in the brain that triggers schizophrenia - like behaviors, brain changes and global gene expression in an animal model.

An international team of scientists has used the fossil record during the past 23 million years to predict which marine animals and ecosystems are at greatest risk of extinction from human impact.

Animal scientist Matt Wheeler at the University of Illinois, Urbana / Champaign, says this demonstration of safety and efficacy is the first step before any scientific review boards or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow human consumption of the milk.

A new insight into one of the biggest questions in science — why some animals, including humans, work together to maintain a common good — has been achieved by scientists at the University of Sheffield.

Scientists have taken one of their closest looks at evolution in action in a wild animal.

He says that better studies of this unique animal and more reserves in the Yangtze are required, though scientists at his institute have started a captive breeding program.

The sender, Alfred Russel Wallace, a young and enthusiastic natural scientist who had traveled around the world at his own expense, and earned his livelihood by exporting exotic animals.

To mitigate the trend and support conservation efforts, scientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) are sharing a way to predict which plants or animals may be vulnerable to the arrival of a new species.

Brian Langerhans, an assistant professor of biological sciences at NC State and a senior author on a paper describing the study, says the research could help scientists learn about the connectedness of what seem to be disconnected animal traits.

ARS came under fire early this year when The New York Times documented numerous cases of animal suffering and death at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in southern Nebraska, where scientists have been trying to create larger and more fecund farm ananimal suffering and death at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in southern Nebraska, where scientists have been trying to create larger and more fecund farm anAnimal Research Center (MARC) in southern Nebraska, where scientists have been trying to create larger and more fecund farm animals.

«Why these animals stayed together so long in Hood Canal is a mystery,» said John K. B. Ford, one of the world's leading researchers on orca behavior and a marine mammal scientist at the Canadian government's Pacific Biological Station on Vancouver Island.

A recent study by scientists at the University of Adelaide and the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) looked at which American animals made the ESA list, and which didn't.

Chris Magee, head of policy at the pressure group Understanding Animal Research (UAR) in London, tells ScienceInsider that withholding information does not help scientists and their work, because it leaves a «vacuum that activists can fill in with misleading information.»