Sentences with phrase «as laboratory animal»

These certifications range from those related to specific scientific areas of study or practice, such as laboratory animal management, to general management topics, such as project management.

Highly qualified animal care worker seeking for a position as laboratory animal care supervisor.

For information about certification as a laboratory animal technician or technologist, visit

Dr. Thompson entered veterinary school as a Laboratory Animal Scholar.

Working as a laboratory animal caretaker.

The Veterinary Technician AAS degree program provides training in veterinary health and the handling of a variety of domestic and exotic animals, as well as laboratory animals encountered in a veterinary practice or biomedical research setting.

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In a study published in Clinical Biochemistry, 2004, researchers looked at coconut oil as a component of diet in laboratory animals.

While some still object to cells being taken from animals and used by scientists to grow clean meat in laboratories — and some just don't like the idea of eating a «cultured» steak created by men and women in white coats — others see the lab - grown meat revolution as key to solving the environmental crisis linked to meat eating.

Independent studies have conclusively shown adverse health effects of BPA on the brain and reproductive system, as well as metabolic diseases in laboratory animals.

The Food and Drug Administration has long permitted its use, but in recent years concerns about the chemical have grown as studies have indicated low doses of the substance can disrupt hormone systems in laboratory animals and possibly increase the risk of cancer or other serious illness.

As of now, the E.P.A. has said PFOA is known to cause developmental and other adverse effects in laboratory animals, but the agency has yet to determine if the chemical poses an unreasonable risk to the public.

Tests on laboratory animals with a type of experimental leukemia... have shown that the extract, known as camptothecin, has high antitumor properties.

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With the harvested follicles, investigators such as James V. («Vince») Gruber, global director of research and development at Lonza Consumer Care, can test the effectiveness of new hair and skin products without relying on laboratory animals.

«Other studies have seen a relationship between tameness and stress responses in animals,» said Jessica Hekman, the first author of the paper who worked on the study as a graduate student in the laboratory of University of Illinois animal sciences professor Anna Kukekova.

From a small wooden desk in a row home a few miles north of the U.S. Capitol, Justin Goodman is waging war against animal research as director of laboratory investigations at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Patricia Brown, head of NIH's Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, says the agency will be talking with all sides as it moves to comply with Congress's call to explore ways of cutting red tape.

His opposition to animal research began in 1995, when, in the summer between high school and college, he worked in a hospital laboratory that was conducting heart studies on pigs and witnessed experiments he saw as cruel.

Laboratory experiments on animals indicate that as doses decrease, less and less damage escapes DNA - repair mechanisms, says Yoshihisa Matsumoto, a radiation biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

The mutated, drug resistant H7N9 virus, however, was still able to infect cultured human cells and spread between laboratory animals as efficiently as nonmutated strains, researchers report December 10 in Nature Communications.

Supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP under the aegis of its Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use (BIOTA - FAPESP, the study relied on the collaboration of the City's Animal Health Control Center and its Department of Parks & Green Areas to carry out a collection of 37,972 specimens of the family Culicidae (which gathers flies commonly known as mosquitoes) from nine municipal parks — later laboratory analysis would show that these mosquitoes belonged to 73 species and 14 genera.

In the meantime, the relationship between biomedical researchers and government regulators has taken a turn for the worse as the Animal Welfare Board last week threatened to close the country's main center for supplying laboratory animals after it failed to follow new registration procedures.

Aharoni wanted a convenient animal to rear in the laboratory, but the creatures were so easily tamed that breeders began selling them as pets.

The American Association for Laboratory Animal Science defines laboratory animal science as «a field of science devoted to the production, care, and study of laboratory animals used in biomedical research and Laboratory Animal Science defines laboratory animal science as «a field of science devoted to the production, care, and study of laboratory animals used in biomedical research and educAnimal Science defines laboratory animal science as «a field of science devoted to the production, care, and study of laboratory animals used in biomedical research and laboratory animal science as «a field of science devoted to the production, care, and study of laboratory animals used in biomedical research and educanimal science as «a field of science devoted to the production, care, and study of laboratory animals used in biomedical research and laboratory animals used in biomedical research and education.

The drug as well as the physical contact of the microneedles with the scar tissue contributes to the efficacy of the device, leading to the cessation of scar tissue growth and a considerable reduction of keloids as demonstrated in laboratory cultures and experiments with animals.

Be that as it may, one thing is certain — this is a golden opportunity for the development, validation, and application of alternative test methodologies and testing strategies, namely, procedures that do not rely on the use of laboratory animals.

As director of the Poly - PEDAL Laboratory, a cross-disciplinary team of researchers — many of them undergraduates — Full is devoted to forming general principles from the study of animal motion.

In a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks, a British court yesterday convicted four people of conspiring to blackmail companies that supply an animal testing laboratory.

And we suspect that these life experiences can alter the expression of genes, and as a result, affect an animal's susceptibility to stress,» says senior author Bruce McEwen, Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology.

Biologists have found a virus that causes obesity in laboratory animals, such as chickens and mice.

When two common North American species — the Eastern red - spotted newt, a showy animal often kept as a pet, and the rough - skinned newt, which ranges from British Columbia to the Mexican border — were exposed to the fungus in laboratory tests, 100 % of the animals died.

«If human organs on chips can be shown to be robust and consistently recapitulate complex human organ physiology and disease phenotypes in unrelated laboratories around the world, as suggested by early proof - of - concept studies, then we will see them progressively replace one animal model at a time.

A small number of federal researchers deemed essential by their agencies would still report to work, such as those involved in caring for patients at NIH's clinical research center, sustaining animal colonies in research laboratories, or handling weather data seen vital to public safety.

Gene editing techniques have the potential to treat blood disorders that run in families, such as thalassemia and sickle cell anemia, but their application has been largely limited to cells in a laboratory and not living animals.

In a memo, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue noted that staff who conduct epidemiological investigations of food - borne disease outbreaks will stay on the job, as will those who respond to pest outbreaks and care for laboratory animals and «critical research infrastructure.»

In the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, researchers at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory raised bryozoans, also known as «moss animals,» in seawater tanks and exposed them to various levels of water temperature, food and acidity.

«When you start to add more and more of the nutrients that the animal would normally be providing, the plant is no longer as dependent on that animal for those nutrients and so it starts to return less of the sugars back to the animal,» explained lead author Shantz, a doctoral candidate in the Burkepile Community Ecology Laboratory.

The big limitation of studying humans, of course, is that you can't manipulate people as you can laboratory animals.

However, sensitivity to toxic substances is known to vary significantly even among closely related coprophilous organisms, which begs the question as to how representative the reaction of any individual animal species actually is in such laboratory tests.

The 1980s will probably be remembered as the decade when the defence of laboratory animals really began to make headlines around the world.

As biomedical research mushroomed, animal dealers did a brisk trade supplying chimpanzees to laboratories anxious to test their vaccines, drugs and theories about disease on our closest living relatives.

By making it easier to see live exotic animals, the menagerie functioned as a «prescientific laboratory» that made obsolete earlier sources of beastly lore: illustrated encyclopedias called bestiaries that described not only elephants, lions, and crocodiles but also dragons, griffins, unicorns, and talking pigs.

On Monday, a U.K. court convicted four animal - rights activists of threatening companies that supply an animal testing laboratory, a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks.

«This is the first study to demonstrate that functional muscle cells can be created in a laboratory and restore dystrophin in animal models of Duchenne using the human development process as a guide.»

The laboratory - based study of animals and cells (known as disease models) can be a powerful method for understanding illness.

The HZI will also provide access to laboratory and animal facilities up to BSL3 and conventional, modified (e.g. knockout, knock - in, reporter) and humanised (e.g. immune system) mice as animal models.

Emil von Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasato, in Robert Koch's laboratory, find that injecting diphtheria toxin into animals produces a serum containing an anti-toxin that provides passive anti-diptheria immunity to people, introducing the use of serum as therapy and showing that immunity did not need to arise internally but could be transferred.

In this post, MDI Biological Laboratory animal core technician Karlee Markovich talks about her experience inspiring interest in science among students at a Bangor middle school as part of Maine BioScience Day.

Our experienced staff includes AALAS certified Research and Veterinary Technicians, as well as Ph.D. and D.V.M. level Laboratory Animal Specialists.

All services provided are in accordance with the National Legislation and the European Legal framework (on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes), as well as the current Guidelines of the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations - FELASA).