Sentences with phrase «better than rats»

It would appear that humans can take creatine better than rats.

And I form the opinion that the playwright — whoever he might be — is nothing better than a rat - souled scoundrel who thinks that belittling a woman will make him twice the man.

Not exact matches

And right now, I can say that I'm a better person for it, in appreciation of other people's needs and illnesses, than I ever was when I was working that rat race back and forth day to day.

If we grow conscious of our condition, if we recognize the choices facing us, we shall develop the insight as well as the will to opt for a life - enhancing path of evolution rater than a life - destroying descent into extinction.

(132) The energy bursting from this story is admirable, but this is a long way from the problems of an averageCatholic family in Britain, who are more likely to be worrying about what the local primary school is teaching their children, rather than the best way to shoot a rat.

while our bodies can break down glucose (which is what is in brown rice syrup) a lot better than it can fructose, there are many studies that show it is contaminated during production with arsenic (basically, rat poison).

Sanchez would not be worse or better than those «rats» if he joined one of our competitors.

Yes it's wishful thinking but it's all part and parcel of what Arsenal are all about... And no, it's not satisfactory but a bit of sunshine after a long ass storm is better than ending up as a drowned rat??

I don't give a rats arse either way, with him or without him we are no better than we've been for the last 9 years.

Dean and the Republicans may not be perfect but they are far better than Sampson and the Democ» rats»

In 1947, psychologist Donald Hebb found that rats he raised with his daughters and gave free rein in his home were better learners than lab - raised rodents.

These toothy beauties are less well - known than their fur - free cousins, the naked mole rats, but don't deserve to be.

(This makes it impossible for scientists to, say, assign the healthiest mice or rats to a treatment group, which could make a drug look better than it is.)

When tested at the ripe old age of 24 months, rats that had given birth earlier in life performed better on tests of learning and memory than rats that had not given birth.

James Simpkins and his colleagues at the University of Florida at Gainesville, noticed that female rats whose ovaries have been removed do less well in learning tests than those with intact ovaries.

The researchers think that, you know, the sweetness is producing a reward effect in the brain that's actually stronger than cocaine's reward effect; same kind of dopamine mechanism and the researchers just think this is something biological that the rats are saying, «Hey this is sweet, must be food, must be good for me.»

When Kolb put them through a series of cognitive and spatial - ability tests, the vitamin - charged rats did markedly better than the control group.

One group had been bred to be good at navigating mazes, the other had been bred to be bad at it, so much so that the «maze - dull» rats made on average 40 per cent more mistakes when navigating a maze than their «maze - smart» friends.

(Because those rodents have larger teeth than mice, a drilled rat molar better approximates human tooth decay.)

A new study in rats shows that lacing a penis graft with adult stem cells yields better healing and sexual function than using the graft alone.

Rabbits are more similar to humans than laboratory rats or mice, which explains why Jean - Paul Renard, a developmental biologist at the French Agronomy Research Institute in Jouy - en - Josas, spent the better part of three years figuring out how to clone them.

That's a good thing, he says, because it's easier to meet the needs of mice and rats than it is for dogs, cats, and nonhuman primates.

In research appearing March 2 in the Journal of Medical Entomology, lead author Matthew Frye, an urban entomologist with Cornell University's New York State Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program, reported collecting more than 6,500 specimens of five well - known species of fleas, lice and mites from 133 rats.

Liang thinks rats make better models of human feeding behaviors than mice because rats are bigger mammals and eat significantly more than mice, making it easier to measure their food intake.

Rats on both high protein diets had better nitrogen balance than those on the standard diet.

They note that a related compound with better pharmacological profiles than CLP257 was as effective in reducing pain in rats as an existing pain treatment called pregabalin, but it lacked the undesirable motor side effects that are often seen with that drug.

Velvet was one of the unlikely rats that succumbed to a tumor, but I will say this: She was a thousand times better as a pet than the frogs we got a year later, which insisted on eating only live crickets we caught ourselves every night.

This is because training to failure comes with a cost, and if not used wisely, it will definitely bring more harm than good to the overzealous gym rat.

This would also explain the case of weanling rats successfully blocking aflatoxin initiation fed 20 % protein, they were being fed an adequate amount of protein for their age, and hence were better at fighting off disease than their protein - starved counterparts.

From his experiments, Dr. Rose found that only eight of the ten amino acids essential to rats were also essential to men — we were better at making two amino acids than rats.

At the end of the supplementation period the researchers let the rats run to exhuastion, and discovered that the animals that had trained and had received grape polyphenols performed much better than the other animals.

What the rat experiment convincing shows, however, is that the standard model for treating obesity, that 99.9999 % of humanity believes — «just burn off more calories than you consume» — is, AT BEST, an oversimplification.

The rats that ate a diet supplemented by 2 percent with blackberries displayed better motor performance, balance and coordination than the control group.

We discussed how rutin was compared to quercetin in a study on rats, and found to be strongly anti-inflammatory, even more so than quercetin, which is one of the best researched antioxidants of all.

Researchers found that rats given a high protein diet supplemented with arginine and proline had better nitrogen balance than those on a standard diet plus showed more new blood vessel growth — which is an essential part of wound healing.

Deadlines are pressing: A study needs to start rats or mice on two diets, and have one diet produce much better health than the other, in considerably less than a two - year time frame.

The pilot study, conducted by Dr. Keiko Abe of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, showed that healthy laboratory rats fed a diet in which some of the carbohydrate was replaced with pure maple syrup from Canada, yielded significantly better results in liver function tests than the control groups fed a diet with a syrup mix containing a similar sugar content as maple syrup.

Research from the Society for Neuroscience found that adult rats that were allowed to exercise regularly on a running wheel grew new brain cells and tested better on memory exercises than rats that did not run.

In a study on rats subjected to 21 days of stress, the results showed that administration of probiotics improved the stress - induced behavioral (anxiety and depression) and cognitive dysfunction, showing an effect similar to and better than that of an antidepressant.

These rats had better spatial and memory skills than rats not given the supplements.

I was committed, and determined to do my best in the race and I actually had more fun with these workout than I ever have in any other time being a gym rat.

Chun's mission has her crossing paths with both the Keeper of Good Souls who lives with more cats than anyone should, and a creepy Rat Lady who is the Keeper of less fortunate souls and commands an army of rats for her dirty work.

A local TV news reporter (Kristen Schaal, in a better role than usual for her) smells a rat, however, and from there Brenna Graziano's screenplay veers from semi-satiric Hicksville humor to wobbly pathos along with a few digs at the pageant culture.

These three cars are some of the most well - known factory track rats on the market, but there's more to this gathering than simple name recognition.

Still a Track Rat at Heart The new SRT8 may be a more well - rounded vehicle than its predecessor, but that doesn't mean it's any less engaging to toss around, particularly on a track.

«They're barely better than bars --» «No one wants them in the neighborhood --» «My dad says they're just a rat's hair above a speakeasy --» I dropped another nickel into my coin purse.

But for those looking for a way out of the rat race, I think it's hard to do much better than what I'm prescribing and living out.

Because mice are so much smaller than rats and can escape through wire bars that aren't close enough, glass tanks with climbing toys can work well for them.

About 1890, breeders crossed the larger Standard Schnauzer with an Affenpinscher to create a dog that was better able to catch rats than either ancestor.

Markkanen continues, «For research on breast carcinoma, tumor tissue of dogs is therefore, among other reasons, much better suitable than tissue from rats or cells cultivated in the laboratory.