Sentences with phrase «at animal lab»

The University of Texas Medical Branch, with whom Sandia enjoys a years - long partnership, together with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Western Regional Research Center in Albany, Calif., are providing Sandia with expert insight into toxins and diseases at animal lab facilities.

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The US Food and Drug Administration issued a «preliminary finding» that the genetically modified insects, produced by Oxitec at its labs in Oxford, England, and shipped as eggs to Florida, would have essentially «no significant impact» on human health, animal health, or the ecosystem.

Enjoy hay mazes and hayrides, farm animals and live owl programs, a caterpillar lab, and so much more at this celebration of fall farm fun.

The Teen Learning Lab has mentors from almost every career field at Shedd Aquarium, including exhibit design, animal care, animal training, husbandry, technology, marketing and many others.

Teen Lab Reporters interpret at posts that help connect guests to stories of how teens have supported Shedd's animals and staff.

Researchers hope the organoids will be better than lab animals or cells growing in culture at revealing how the human brain develops, both normally and when things go awry, and identify potential therapeutic or genome - editing targets.

A popular alternative to bisphenol A isn't as benign as people had thought, at least not in lab animals.

Fraser also predicts robotics and lab - grown tissue will converge to create animal cyborgs with machine brains and living flesh, allowing visitors to interact with more species at petting zoos.

«From people at UT - D, Big Bend National Park, Bell Helicopter, the Smithsonian Institution, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at UT - Austin, the dedicated staff and volunteers at the Perot Museum, and other paleontologists who offered advice and insight about these animals, so many people contributed to getting the science done and the information out there for the world to see.»

«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.

David Grimm — online news editor for Science — talks with Sarah Crespi about the potential of treating lab animals more like us and making them more useful for science at the same time.

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.

«[These are] basic data about animal use and compliance that taxpayers have a right to access, particularly when it comes to taxpayer - funded labs,» says Justin Goodman, vice president of advocacy and public policy at the White Coat Waste Project, a Washington, D.C. — based group that opposes taxpayer - funded animal experiments.

To mimic this obesogenic environment, the teams led by Mara Dierssen at CRG and Rafael Maldonado at UPF offered mice the option of a high - fat «cafeteria» diet or a mixture of chopped - up commercial chocolate bars alongside their regular lab chow, before carrying out a detailed analysis of the animals» activity and feeding behaviour.

The study — which looked at the action of Substance P within nerve cells in the lab and in animal models — focused on acute pain, but Professor Gamper aims to look at its role within chronic pain as well.

With the move to India, Colleen left the lab bench so that she could coordinate the development of facilities at inStem; this included new laboratory space and an animal facility housing mice, rats, fish, and frogs.

Because regulatory T cells reduce inflammation in lab animals, cardiologist Ziad Mallat at the French National Institute of Health in Paris and his colleagues theorized that regulatory T cells are trying to protect against atherosclerosis.

And although there's already «a battery of evidence» for laterality in animals from lab studies, Lesley Rogers of the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, says, «we're only beginning to look at how this laterality manifests itself in the wild.»

At the Galveston National Laboratory, which houses a biosafety level 4 lab, researchers shut down experiments, euthanized infected animals, put pathogens in cold storage, and autoclaved cell cultures.

Still, in December of last year the agency announced that it would phase out monkey experiments at the lab, though it blamed finances, not animal rights or congressional pressure.

The animal rights group had run numerous ads alleging that researchers at an NIH lab in Poolesville, Maryland, were traumatizing baby rhesus macaques by taking them away from their mothers and addicting them to alcohol.

«We might not have known urchins and six - armed sea stars were affected if lab - held animals hadn't died right in front of us,» said the study's lead author Laura Jurgens, a graduate student at UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory who earned her doctorate in May.

In a lab near Deisseroth's office, Tye inserted a fiber - optic cable into a mouse's little brain at just the right spot, leaving enough slack for the animal to run around.

«In addition to being used in animal studies to help us understand how the brain works, this new endoscope might one day be useful for certain applications in people,» said Shay Ohayon, who developed the device as a postdoctoral researcher in James DiCarlo's lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

And at that point, he started to think about, you know, the idea of being able to grow meat from stem cells or from cells; to be able to grow meat in a lab as opposed to, you know, raising animals in a farm somewhere; to be able to have a lab and grow meat anywhere, you know, regardless of the environmental conditions or other factors.

The fish offer a fresh opportunity to find out how animals can thrive with traits that would sicken humans, said co-senior author Nicolas Rohner, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Tabin lab who is now an assistant investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, and an assistant professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Indeed, two of the chimps NhRP has been trying to free are lab animals at Stony Brook University.

The King lab at Berkeley has pioneered the exploration of the origins of multicellularity by looking at choanoflagellates for shared characteristics and behaviors conserved by evolution in animals.

Although researchers have known that nitrites and nitrates at high doses can cause cancer in lab animals, de la Monte's results suggest that long - term, low - dose exposure to the compounds may be linked to chronic diseases in humans.

Raghu Kalluri, a cancer biologist at MD Anderson, managed to return to his lab this morning to find everything in working order: Freezers full of important samples had been protected by backup generators, and facilities housing research animals had stayed dry.

Late last month, hundreds of people in two Washington, D.C., suburbs received a letter in the mail claiming that one of their neighbors was tied to animal abuse at a government lab.

A federal investigation into animal research labs at the University of Utah has flagged several infractions, but concludes that overall the labs are «in good order.»

The inspectors, from USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), found additional problems, including expired disinfectant, anthrax stored in unsecure freezers and labs, samples stored in Ziploc bags, and a lack of preparation at CDC's clinic for a large anthrax exposure.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the trial in January 2009 but put it on hold last September because of safety concerns after lab animals injected with stem cells developed small cysts at the injury site.

English government lab blamed for foot and mouth outbreak Leaky drainage pipes may have allowed the foot and mouth virus to escape from a lab funded by England's Institute for Animal Health in Pirbright, causing last month's outbreaks at two farms in nearby Surrey, government investigators said.

He teamed up with Robert Seder of the Vaccine Research Center (VCR) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, and scientists at other labs to test immune responses to the vaccine in animals.

► «Late last month, hundreds of people in two Washington, D.C., suburbs received a letter in the mail» from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) claiming «that one of their neighbors was tied to animal abuse at a government lab,» David Grimm wrote in a Wednesday ScienceInsider.

Another hospital gave me penicillin so my animals wouldn't get infected, and I found a guy who worked at one of the state labs who had a centrifuge and chemicals in his basement — that's where I extracted the DNA.

The Norwegian analysis was done after researchers at Harvard University found these effects of the medicines in animal tests and in experiments with brain cells in the lab.

Almost every animal behavior studied in the lab, from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math, is affected by stress, notes Paul Flecknell, a veterinary anesthesiologist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who researches ways to alleviate pain in animals.

Four U.S. representatives — prompted by an aggressive ad campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which claimed that baby rhesus macaques at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development lab of Stephen Suomi were being ripped from their mothers at birth and being mentally traumatized — called on NIH to conduct a bioethical review of the lab.

«We're a behavior and cognition lab, so we really try to understand what the animal is experiencing by looking at its behavior,» Gunter said.

In this new study, Kandel's former student, John H. Byrne, who heads the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has brought a new twist to the original learning method developed in Kandel's lab — a technique that consisted of shocking slug tails at regular intervals and then seeing whether the animals overreacted later when receiving another zap, a sign that they remembered their tormentors all too well.

Ellen Heber - Katz, an immunologist at the Wistar Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, came upon the peculiar animals when she ordered lab mice bred for studying the overactive immune response in lupus.

Eight past studies looked at whether the sweetener causes cancer in lab animals, says veterinary pathologist James Swenberg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Durdu, a PhD student in Darren Gilmour's lab at EMBL, found this behaviour in specific groups of cells in the zebrafish: the cells that will develop into the animal's «lateral line», a series of ear - like organs along the fish's flank that allow it to sense changes in water pressure.

Researchers at McLean's Behavioral Genetics Lab are using animal models to study the effects of nicotine on vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a study funded by the Department of Defense (DoD).

Floris van Breugel, a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Michael Dickinson, professor of bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology, found that animals (specifically, fruit flies), are more attracted to visual features, even when exposed to an attractive odor.

There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.

Back at the lab, three days later, Hart's team implanted four devices into the snake: two radio - transmitters, a GPS device to track the precise ground coordinates of the animal at all times and an accelerometer.