Sentences with phrase «animal studies do»

I emphasize, however, that green tea is still very healthy, but animal studies do not support consumption of large amounts — at least not for men who want to keep their testosterone high.
Although results of animal studies don't necessarily translate to humans, these studies reveal the 24 - hour fasting period may be insufficient for potential fasting benefits.
(Indeed, animal studies do suggest that Lyme infection may persist in some cases, Dr. Fallon says.)
Animal studies don't help either; we're the only species that really talks.
The new study may help explain why so many encouraging results in animal studies don't hold up in human trials.
The new study helps explain why so many results in animal studies don't hold up in human trials, says Malcolm Macleod, a neurologist at the University of Edinburgh.
In an animal study done by the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney, adding goji to the diet supplied antioxidant activity that offered significant protection against skin disorders and lipid peroxidation of UV light damage.
Animal studies done in the UK and South Africa found no pharmacological effects of rhino horn — or any other animal horns.
«Based on the results of animal studies done by other groups, we hypothesize such differences are due to other biological causes (e.g. sex hormones),» Sun said.

Not exact matches

In several animal studies, researchers have demonstrated that moderate alcohol consumption does not promote weight gain.
The animal studies that have been done don't always map well to people.
John Eppig, a reproductive biologist at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine raised the concern that no animal studies with a control group have been done — a standard practice with experimental medical procedures — yet somehow the procedure is being tried on humans.
Animals that didn't run, no matter how enriched their world was otherwise, did not improve their brainpower in the complex, lasting ways that Rhodes's team was studying.
ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.
Start with the studies done by Jane Goodall, and then continue with a HUGE variety of other animal studies that PROVE animals have morals, they use tools, build societies and cultures, have their own languages (such as the prarie dogs... simple little rodents right?
Studying and being convinced of the truth of evolutionary biology didn't me love people or animals less.
So, I'll do more studying, if anyone has any links they could give me it would much appreciated, it is just baffling to me to know that man was created around animals in the beginning how ever, was able to pull away from the animals and begin an intelligent form a language, I can sort of see creating things that they needed from need.
The sense and degree to which psychologists are behaviorists gets its significance from the fact that, in studying animals, that is, the sort of thing that we ourselves are, we have a dual access to reality, which we do not have in studying inanimate nature.
Earlier studies involving animal models did not translate to humans.
Have any studies been done to see how much land per animals would be required for this to be feasable.
so often they just look at potential markers — but those don't always equate to diseases)- what was the health of the those being studied - I'm assuming the test subjects were people, but other studies done on animal subjects might not be as reliable as those done on humans.
The FDA reviewed studies in human beings and animals and determined that sucralose does not cause reproductive or neurological risk to human beings.
About the conversation with TC Campbell, in his China Study audio version, he mentions that he doesn't eat animal based protein, but this only happen a few years previous to the publication of the book.
Most of the studies that have produced the craze over PRP have been done using animal models.
However, studies do not debate that organic foods are free of pesticides that have known side effects in animals and humans.
The study was done after earlier research in animal studies showed that neurocognitive delays were more common among vitamin D deficient animals» offspring.
Studies done with animals show that acrylamide in the diet increases the risk of developing several different types of cancer, including stomach and colon cancer and don't get me started on the salt levels.
«We know the animal studies raise concerns, but there aren't human studies showing effects yet... so, when we don't have the evidence, what we recommend is that parents try to err on the side of caution,» she says.
The Burger That Shattered Her Life — Stephanie Smith (The New York Times) watch the video 38 % was from Greater Omaha meat packing plant 37 % from Lone Star, a slaughterhouse in Texas 15 % from a processor in Uruguay 10 % from Beef Products International (PINK SLIME) A study done by R.P. Clayton and K.E. Belk in 1998 concluded that a single 4 - ounce ground beef patty was made from, on average, at least 55 different animals to, at most, an average of 1082 animals.
I do feel that — despite whatever a study conducted on animals concluded — the article was a bit biased regarding music genre.
He points out that the studies that sparked the New Zealand outcry were done in animals, not people.
All of these toxicological statistics are derived from studies wherein the targets (almost always lab animals) did not receive decontamination or treatment for their injuries.
Forward - thinking scientists, many with funding from PETA and its international affiliates, are developing methods for studying diseases and testing products that don't require the use of animals and are actually relevant to human health.
And, by showing how animal studies can help us understand when and why our own weapons work — or don't work — as deterrents, it drove home the importance of basic research.
«What this study really does is bring those two streams of research together,» showing that animal personalities are flexible yet also persistent, he says.
We hope that our article will encourage people to undertake these studies so that we can provide solid advice for pregnant women who don't eat much in the way of animal - derived foods,» said Rogne.
«By studying how education changes the brain, we can find out how this uniquely human experience induces change in both brain structure and function — something we can not do with animal models.»
This need for energy places hard limits on what animals can do and how big they can be,» said McClain, who was a co-author on the study.
It has been challenging to study liver cirrhosis, also called end - stage liver disease, because most animals used in experiments do not develop the disease.
Evidence that animal pheromones don't always work in they way we thought, backed up by a growing number of brain - imaging studies in humans, is convincing some researchers that we really do make and respond to pheromones.
Our animal ancestors used their noses way more than we do in modern society, says Jessica Freiherr, a neuroscientist at RWTH Aachen University, in Germany, and the author of several studies on human olfaction.
«It could allow some of the molecular and genetic studies done on modern animals to be potentially used on dinosaur samples.»
Weiss says she used lab animals because they are well studied: «We know what they do or what they're supposed to do
Diana Reiss, a comparative psychologist at Hunter College in New York City who was involved in the dolphin and elephant mirror self - recognition studies, draws a distinction between animals using a mirror spontaneously and monkeys that do so after extensive training.
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.
Nicky Clayton at the University of Cambridge, UK, says the study shows that young chicks are capable of abstract relational thought: «The fact that young chicks can do this suggests this ability is more widespread across the animal kingdom than previously thought, and emerges earlier in development than expected.»
New tests based on human biology can predict many adverse reactions that animal tests fail to do, and could, for example, have detected the risk signals produced by Vioxx, which in animal studies appeared to be safe, and even beneficial to the heart.
Flu is hard to study in the lab because virtually no lab animals get it the way humans do.
Dennis Turner, an evolutionary biologist who studies companion animals at the Institute for Applied Ethology and Animal Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland, says the experiment only loosely resembles real - life adoptions, so more work needs to be done before he's convinced.
Instead of trying to train animals to do human tasks, she studied mental adaptations that corvids might need in their own setting.
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