Sentences with phrase «animal scientists who»

In order to set proper training programs, the government involved leading animal scientists who chose German shepherd dog for the program.

Along the way is a stunning chase sequence involving the barrelling bulk of Okja through a crowded Seoul shopping centre, goofy support from a ragtag of Animal Liberation Front activists (led by the softly spoken Paul Dano), and a terrific cameo from Jake Gyllenhaal as a safari - suited TV animal scientist who's sold out to Mirando.

Not exact matches

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.

I can respond to a scientist, but how do I respond to a guy who says it can't happen and equating what I'm doing to the mistreatment of animals?»

It is interesting that the study of scientists from different countries who studied children's passion for different animals, showed that most children wanted to see namely a dog as a four - legged friend.

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.

But if you have heard anything about streams being polluted or animals and birds being poisoned by marijuana production, it's almost certainly because of Gabriel, a soft - spoken scientist who now and then unleashes his inner Rambo.

«AAAS Board Statement Deploring Intimidation of Scientists Who Use Animals in Their Research» [28 November 2007]

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.

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.

«Dr. Hill was a distinguished and respected herpesvirologist / animal model scientist who passed away approximately a year ago,» notes Dr. Foster.

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.

But she cites a Hindu colleague who took the opposite point of view, putting the burden of proof on scientists to show that animals are not mentally complex.

Some scientists who have been targeted by animal rights terrorists would probably not be comfortable with this either,» Wallisch says.

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.

Peter Franek says that the scientists clearly were able to make out the calls of the fin whales to such detail that it might be useful even to the biologists who wish to study movement and sound communication patterns of these majestic animals.

But like researchers who clone animals (see p. 85), plant scientists understand little about what actually controls the process.

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.

Those scientists who act blindly unconcerned about the numbers of animals they use or the cruelty of experimental conditions have no idea how monstrous they appear to some of the public.

Assistant Professor Lin Qingsong, who is from the Department of Biological Sciences under the NUS Faculty of Science and is one of the scientists who led the study, explained, «Many people may not realise that more human lives are lost to the tiny mosquito, more specifically malaria parasites, each year as compared to ferocious animals such as lions and sharks.

Climate change and the resulting loss of sea ice during the summer have opened new hunting territory for the killer whales in the eastern Canadian Arctic, but scientists knew very little about these animals until they tapped into the traditional knowledge of Inuit hunters who shared unique firsthand descriptions of orca hunting tactics.

These workshops have presented an important opportunity to bring together scientists who are contributing actively to topics such as aquaculture, farmed animal biotechnology, biodiversity, plant genome research, cellular microbiology, and AIDS vaccine research and diagnostics.

Unlike many shark biologists, Klimley was a behaviorist — a student of a student of the great Konrad Lorenz, the Austrian scientist who famously imprinted goose chicks to think he was their mother and pioneered the field of animal behavior.

Scientists had long suspected that some local animals might not be able to outrun climate change, but researchers haven't yet been able to prove the hypothesis, says Loarie, who was not involved in this study: «It's just wonderful to see empirical evidence that backs this up.»

Kasting, who is collaborating with Arne Naegel and Gabriel Wittum from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, for this research, says mathematical modeling allows scientists to test chemical compounds virtually, in place of human or animal testing.

«If not developed carefully, these programs could inadvertently cause a decrease in qualified and capable staff who can conduct research involving sensitive materials or research animals, or drive scientists to become security risks themselves.»

«The fact that we could alleviate inflammation by adding back a single key bacterial strain, suggests that it could be useful as a probiotic for inflammatory diseases,» said Rolig, who, along with Eisen, is a scientist in the National Institutes of Health - funded Microbial Ecology and Theory of Animals Center for Systems Biology, known as the META Center, which Guillemin heads.

The researchers say the technology should be available soon to scientists who do research in animals, although it will take many more years to develop the method for use in humans.

Diving right in Ray, who was one of the first scientists to use scuba diving to study marine animals in polar environments, has not only observed the biological adaptations that mammals employ in cold ocean waters, but has also experienced prolonged immersion in those waters firsthand.

By LYNDA BIRKE and MIKE MICHAEL Despite the controversy surrounding animal experiments, we know very little about how scientists who do research on animals view their work.

«On one side this gives us some time,» says Caminiti, who believes that the moratorium is an attempt to appease scientists while winking at animal rights activists.

SCIENTISTS who study animal intelligence walk a fine line: they must resist the temptation to anthropomorphise animals while analysing behaviour through the lens of common descent.

He notes that the center has made its animals available to scientists who study everything from AIDS to cutting - edge antibody research.

«These half - measures will do little or nothing to prevent the harassment, intimidation, and violence,» says Mark Matfield, executive director of the Research Defense Society, which represents scientists who experiment on animals.

By LYNDA BIRKE and MIKE MICHAEL Our interviews with scientists who use animals were anonymous; but talking to us as representatives of New Scientist allowed the researchers a public platform.

The move comes after years of pressure by animal rights and animal welfare advocates, including some scientists who have argued that these animals shouldn't be kept in captivity.

Berg's ongoing battle to defend NIH's National Center for Research Resources, which provides resources like large instruments and animal models, has burnished his image among many scientists who were already fans.

The new research may also give scientists insight into predators who feed on the animals that live in the mesopelagic zone.

But the biggest takeaway is that scientists should be careful before declaring an animal can't sense something, says Robert Olberg, an insect neuroscientist at Union College in Schenectady, New York, who was not involved with the research.

Ordering DNA from commercial outfits has become as easy as ordering pizza, according to Voigt, who projects that in upcoming decades scientists will be able to whip up much larger segments of DNA: synthetic genomes for yeast, animals — perhaps even humans.

The new institute is expected to start operations this spring with 17 employees, including seven scientists, says molecular biologist Thomas Mettenleiter, who heads Germany's Federal Research Center for Animal Viral Diseases.

PETA may seem well - meaning and benign, but scientists and conservationists who work with animals see its other side and are wary of the organization because it attacks research in order to advance its mission.

If mesopelagic animals convey information through sound, learning more about who is communicating and what they're communicating about could change scientists» understanding of how the ecosystem fits together, Baumann - Pickering said.

«[This] study has important global implications, because we know early plants cooled the climate and increased the oxygen level in the Earth's atmosphere,» conditions that supported the expansion of terrestrial animal life, says Tim Lenton, an earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

Mackenzie is one of a small band of scientists who are trying to work out why Australia is suffering from a rash of «zoonoses», diseases that jump from animals to humans, and why, in almost every case, a bat features somewhere in the story.

Ray, who was one of the first scientists to use scuba diving to study marine animals in polar environments, has not only observed the biological adaptations that mammals employ in cold ocean waters, but has also experienced prolonged immersion in those waters firsthand.

For example, scientists who study microbes need to be working with animal scientists and physicians to understand what's driving interactions between microbes and animals, and between different groups of microbes.

It is also intended for post-docs and scientists already working in certain of these fields and who are interested in expanding their knowledge on the potential applications of these new techniques to their models or in neighbouring pathophysiological models of analysis of genes or diseases using genetically modified animals.

«I got the impression that it was being very careful to check all the boxes for hot topics and controversial topics in animal cognition,» said Alex Jordan, a collective behaviorial scientist at the Max Planck Institute in Konstanz, Germany (who nonetheless supports the idea).