Sentences with phrase «animal study even»

One animal study even found it worked as well as the anti-inflammatory drug indomethacin in treating arthritis, but without the side effects.8

Animal studies even suggest that pumpkin seeds may help improve insulin regulation and help prevent diabetic complications by decreasing oxidative stress.11

Not exact matches

There are even studies with pre-verbal children (haven't been socialized to religion yet) and other but non-human social animals that show that morality, if you accept that a sense of fairness and preferring «nice» over the opposite are proto - morals, then indeed it is evolution that makes it so.

To continue Robert, as I have studied the conceptof intelligence, especially how it pertains to other animals, most of those concepts are not even confined to humans.

«Love» exists and has been studied by scientists, but there is a huge difference between actually having a relationship with another human being, or even an animal that you can characterize as «loving» and thinking there is some all - powerful unseen being out there that loves you.

Heck, early animal studies show that losing a little weight may even increase life - span and have potential benefits for brain function.

«Animal studies and in - vitro studies with human cells have repeatedly shown that food - grade carrageenan causes gastrointestinal inflammation and higher rates of intestinal lesions, ulcerations, and even malignant tumors.»

Both animal and human studies have concluded that onions can minimize bone loss, and potentially even increase bone mass.

Studies show that dioxins collect in the fatty tissues of animals and humans, and even low levels of exposure can lead to cancer, endometriosis, birth defects, and reproductive disorders.

Studies of laboratory animals have shown that even small doses of these chemicals impair attention, learning, memory, and behavior.

And Avent isn't aware of «independent laboratory studies that have measured the effect of BPA in animals,» even though the information is a Google search away.

So the animal studies give us only a hint at how early experience can affect development — the way human babies are treated by caregivers has even more effects on them than for any other animal because they are born so immature.

In animal studies, even low levels of bisphenols have been linked to cancer, diabetes, reproductive disorders and miscarriages.

The researchers caution that the booster therapy used in their new study will not be available on the market or even for use in human trials anytime soon; it must await years of animal testing for safety and effectiveness first.

Even more important, this seminal work opens the road for comparative neuroimaging studies in which humans and other animals perform similar tasks using similar methodologies, and the results can be analyzed using similar strategies.

However, in some studies with laboratory mice, Feinberg had observed that these epigenetic tags varied considerably among the mice even when comparing the same type of tissue in animals that have been living in the exact same conditions.

Yet, as Collins, a biologist at the University of Miami's College of Arts and Sciences who studies the mechanics of neural circuits, notes, «Even the simplest animal with the simplest neural circuits have so much going on.»

It is a rule that lies at the core of studying animal and plant behavior, and human society should be looked at no differently, as even technologically complex societies are still governed by EROI.

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.

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.

The researchers found the same gene in every animal they studied: humans, mice, rabbits, chickens, even worms.

Engineers might even be able to develop more powerful and maneuverable versions of the study's robot car that could be driven by silkworms genetically modified to detect a wide variety of smells to help with sniffing tasks traditionally done by trained animals.

Through study of mice lacking Sp7, Javed and colleagues found that initial tooth morphogenesis was normal, even though the animals lacked mineralized tooth sockets.

Biologists have used Bookstein's methods to study a whole bestiary of animals: bats, fishes, midges, mice, coral, shrews, and even pinworms.

The study of fluids in motion, she says, enables understanding of a huge number of phenomena in a vast range of fields, including biology, meteorology, medicine, astronomy, geology, oceanography, sports, animal behavior, and even highway traffic.

Complicating study of the virus even further, a lab study found that an infected mosquito can pass the virus to nearby mosquitoes while they are feeding on an uninfected animal.

The work speaks to how evolution may tap the same molecular pathways in very different animals, even for traits as complex as social behavior, says Hans Hofmann, an evolutionary neuroscientist at the University of Texas in Austin who was not involved with the study.

Study author Mauricio Hoyos from Pelagios Kakunjá (a Mexican NGO) said «In Mexico in the eighties, the sea of Cortes was one of the best places to see these beautiful and majestic animals but at present it's hard to see even a few.

Moreover, he says, the study suggests that other creatures may possess the «foundational mechanisms» that enable humans to reason so well with numbers and that «perhaps even advanced mathematical abilities may be found in other animals.»

«It is widely known that some chemicals, especially odors, can impact an animal's instinctive behaviors even on first contact,» says Kazushige Touhara, a professor at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, who supervised the study.

Yet, according to a new study involving 147 cities worldwide, surprisingly high numbers of plant and animal species persist and even flourish in urban environments — to the tune of hundreds of bird species and thousands of plant species in a single city.

The new study, which reports adjusted dates for radiocarbon analyses (which can be substantially older than unadjusted radiocarbon dates), looked at more than 250 samples of charcoal, animal bones, and even soot smudges left on the cave's walls by torches.

And even if they were diligent in their efforts, a 2008 study showed that two locally produced vaccines were so weak they only conferred protection to 10 to 20 percent of animals.

In a study published in the June 12 edition of Science, they detail how a new drug repaired damage to the colon, liver and bone marrow in animal models — even going so far as to save the lives of mice who otherwise would have died in a bone marrow transplantation model.

Animal - borne camera reveals that alligators may attempt to capture prey most often at night, even though the calculated probability of catching prey is highest in the morning, according to a study published in PLOS ONE on January 15, 2014 by James Nifong from the University of Florida and colleagues from other institutions.

This unexpected aphrodisiac may open the bedroom door for microbiologists to study sexual behaviour in many poorly understood species — and perhaps even in the earliest animals.

Dramatic calorie restriction, diets reduced by 40 percent of a normal calorie total, have long been known to extend health span, the duration of disease - free aging, in animal studies, and even to extend life span in most animal species examined.

Aside from humans, no other animal that has been studied, not even monkeys or apes, has proved to use such hemispheric specialization for sound processing — meaning that the left brain is better at processing fast sounds, and the right processing slow ones.

«Until now, we assumed that it is primarily the specialists among the insects, i.e., animals that depend on a specific habitat, that are threatened with extinction,» explains Professor Dr. Thomas Schmitt, director of the Senckenberg German Entomological Institute in Müncheberg, and he continues, «In our recent study, we were able to show that even so - called «ubiquitous species» will be facing massive threats in the future.»

«We believe our study has the potential to open a complete new field of investigation in modern neuroscience by demonstrating that even the simplest functions of the motor cortex, such as creating body movements, are heavily influenced by the type of social relationships among the animals participating,» said senior author Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D..

A new study argues that the Anthropocene began much earlier: with the rise of farming or even before, when we took to setting fire to the bush to hunt animals.

As a result, adds Robert Dudley, an organismal biologist at UC Berkeley, even more engineers are now studying animal flight than biologists.

The team of researchers studied stable carbon isotopes in the tooth enamel of the large primates — which are able to reveal information about the animals» dietary habits even after several million years.

A new study by Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Natasha Vitek shows how scientists can use animals» physical features — also known as morphology — to make connections between a modern species and its fossilized relatives, even if they look strikingly different.

More recent studies, however, have found evidence of speedy evolutionary change in animals — as well as hundreds of changes in the human genome that appeared within tens of thousands, rather than over hundreds of thousands or even millions of years.

They say that although Shark Week promotes public interest in sharks, the programs often misrepresent what scientists know about the animals and how they study them and may even hurt conservation efforts.

Orcas are known to communicate amongst themselves using an array of sounds, and the animals have even demonstrated «dialects» — variations in communication signals that are specific to certain groups of the animals — the scientists reported in a new study.

The study suggests that animals play a bigger role in transmitting sleeping sickness than previously thought, and suggests that they could form a natural reservoir from which sleeping sickness could bounce back even if it were defeated in humans.

Study co-author, Dr Neil Gostling from the University of Southampton, said: «The improvement in CT scanning, both in the instrumentation, at Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland where we scanned or even the µ - VIS Centre at Southampton, along with access for research of this kind, allows us to make inroads into understanding the biology and the ecology of animals long dead.

He added that each animal can produce up to several hundred or even a thousand human doses of antibody per month, making the platform very scalable, based on data from this and other studies.