Sentences with phrase «began studying animal»

After the premature loss of beloved pets they, separately, began studying animal nutrition as a way to help enhance the quality and longevity of their animal friends» lives.

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As a Christian, I absolutely believe God began the human race in the Garden of Eden... as a discerning intelligent human being, I can not deny the facts found in carbon dating studies of ancient fossil remains... if God can creat man, he can also allow for investigation and confirmation of planet plant and animal life, the upheaval of mountains, and history of the sea.

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.

Interested in the relationship between the gut, good health and psychology, she began studying to discover why the foods that were supposed to be «unhealthy» (e.g fats and animal products) made her feel her best.

Diane began her studies observing animal behavior over 30 years ago.

So physicians began to become involved and tried to make infant feeding scientific, by studying the ingredients of human milk and trying to adapt animal milk to the needs of infants.

In 1842, English anatomist Richard Owen proposed the term dinosauria for the strange animal fossils he and colleagues had begun to study.

Jolly began studying these primates on her first trip to Madagascar in 1962 and spent much of her career documenting the animals» social lives.

In the Eickbush lab, he began a study of the evolutionary relationships among non-long-terminal-repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons, which are abundant in the genomes of animals, plants, and fungi.

With this strength in mind, he sat down at his typewriter and began tapping out an argument for full - fledged animal studies to examine phytic acid's potential for protecting against heart disease and cancer.

Roughly 800 million years ago, in the late Proterozoic Eon, phosphorus, a chemical element essential to all life, began to accumulate in shallow ocean zones near coastlines widely considered to be the birthplace of animals and other complex organisms, according to a new study by geoscientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Yale University.

When I began my work, most of the big animals had never been studied, so when I sat with the gorillas, almost anything I observed was new and gave people an idea of what their lives were really like.

«It's not so much that the jury is out, but that the jury has been dismissed before the trial has begun,» says Mike Meredith, a neuroscientist at Florida State University in Tallahassee, who studies animal pheromones.

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.

Drugs that disrupt the enzyme, his animal studies suggest, could prevent Alzheimer's with less risk of unwanted side effects — an approach that he expects to begin testing in human trials within three years.

The radiation - sensitive animals (19 of 46) all showed evidence of impairment that began at 50 to 60 days post-exposure and remained through the end of the study.

In this study, the researchers began with a naturally occurring antimicrobial peptide called clavanin - A, which was originally isolated from a marine animal known as a tunicate.

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.»

While most research studies begin in test tubes, cells grown in the laboratory and animal models before moving to humans, the opposite is true here.

In this study, pairs of adult males were placed together and they quickly began to compete, resulting in dominant (winner) and subordinate (loser) animals that maintained this status throughout the experiment.

Working with two elderly captive Guiana dolphins at the Dolphinarium of Allwetterzoo Münster in Germany, researchers began to suspect that the animals might have electroreceptors «because you can see dark pits on their snouts,» says Wolf Hanke, a sensory biologist at the University of Rostock in Germany and one of the study's authors.

A study in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment notes that reflected light — off of buildings or roadways — can be as disruptive to animal behavior as the direct light that attracts sea turtle hatchlings to begin life in the wrong direction.

While previous investigations into the protein's effects have used either mice in which gene expression was knocked out or transgenic animals that expressed human gene variants throughout their lifetimes, the MGH - MIND - led study used a different approach to investigate the effects of introducing the variant forms of the protein into brains in which plaque formation had already begun.

This bacterial transfer may begin in the womb, animal studies suggest, and continues during a trip through the birth canal.

So instead of studying the whole animals, he began isolating single nerve cells from the mole rats and investigating them in lab dishes to track the molecular basis of the rodent's pain insensitivity.

The new glimpse of the footpaths of animals and humans complement earlier studies that reveal the anatomy and behavior of H. erectus, suggesting that as it evolved modern body proportions, it also increased its home range and began competing with carnivores for carcasses on the savanna, says Harris.

Model behavior So far, there are only a few autism studies in which the sex of animals seems to make a difference, but that may be because scientists have only just begun to look.

Reiss returned to Temple in 1980 to finish her Ph.D. and implement her keyboard, but she had neither animals to study nor the money to begin.

The Wisconsin scientists began to see diabetes among the control animals while they were still in the prime of life, within six months after beginning their study.

After more than a decade of studying snowshoe hares in the Rocky Mountains, L. Scott Mills, a wildlife biologist at the University of Montana, Missoula, noticed that the animals were beginning to stick out more than usual.

They and their collaborators began to study black and gray wolves living in Yellowstone National Park, first looking for differences in genes known to influence color in birds, mice, cattle, and other animals.

However, Popp and Birnbaum both say that new technologies won't completely replace animal studies anytime soon, so beginning toxicologists should have a solid foundation of animal work.

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.

Seven of the study animals died of renal failure, beginning on March 2, five days after the testing started.

All Grant's gazelles (Nanger granti) have intestinal worms, but according to a study presented in Princeton, New Jersey, at the Animal Behavior Society meeting last week, those males able to defend land and a harem begin their reign with a relatively low number of parasites.

Lisa Gunter, a doctoral candidate studying behavioral neuroscience at the Canine Science Collaboratory in the Department of Psychology, began the project as a pilot study at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, the largest no - kill shelter in the country.

«Although studies in animals have suggested it, this study indicates that markers of inflammation in a mom's blood can be associated with short - and long - term changes in their child's brain, which will now allow us to identify ways to prevent those effects and ensure children develop in the healthiest possible way beginning in the womb and continuing through later childhood and beyond.»

And although some scientists are eager to begin new studies on chimps, but many wonder whether such research on these now - endangered animals will receive moral, or monetary, support.

In a new project that began this month, Drs. Anuradha Ray and Wenzel were recently awarded a five - year, $ 8 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), also part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to continue studying the immune response and genetic roots of severe asthma in 120 patients and in animal models.

More studies are needed to determine whether other birds and animals behave in a similar way, but the researchers suggest that installing special lights on planes could alert birds to begin their escape from a longer distance away.

Since Christophe Boesch began studying wild chimpanzees in the Taï forest in Côte d'Ivoire in 1979, the animals» populations have declined by more than two - thirds.

A 2010 graduate of the doctoral program in archaeological anthropology at Washington University, he began research for this study as part of a dissertation examining fluctuations in populations of mice and other small animals living around Maasai cattle herding settlements in Kenya.

«This is quite good and convincing work that confirms host defense activity of amyloid - β against fungal and bacterial infections in animal models, and begins to unravel the mechanisms of antimicrobial activity of the protein,» said Kevan Hartshorn who studies innate immunity at the Boston University School of Medicine and was not involved in the study.

To build upon the encouraging early discoveries, Helmsley renewed and expanded its Crohn's funding for the Institute in 2013 to begin new work with three major aims: 1) continue studies of individual genes to determine how genetic differences between Crohn's patients and healthy individuals contribute to the disease; 2) evaluate promising small molecules in disease - relevant studies and prioritize insights from genetics to help develop novel therapeutics; and 3) begin basic experimentation in animal models with Crohn's disease to provide the data necessary to begin testing new therapies in humans.

There, he began an in - depth study of the sounds animals use to communicate.

To understand why this might have happened the way it did, King began studying choanoflagellates, the closest living relative to animals, nearly 15 years ago as a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

To begin to understand cognitive processing, emotional behaviors, and neurodegenerative disease, scientists study the brains of simpler animal models.

Boyden says he believes this is just the beginning of using robotics in neuroscience to study living animals.

In January 2015, I began working as a postdoctoral fellow at LIAI studying virus - host cells interactions in animal models and human cells.

However, the recent study compared CT scans of modern and fossil reptiles and found that the slithering animals lost their limbs when their ancient ancestors began living and hunting in burrows instead.