Sentences with phrase «by animal researchers»

We must include the nearly 70,000 animals tortured and killed annually by animal researchers.

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Vinegar may also prevent body - fat accumulation, according to a 2009 animal study by Japanese researchers.

The researchers at Mote hope that by growing tens of thousands of the animals, they'll be able to reverse, or at least slow, that trend.

Much of the effect can likely be explained by researchers unconsciously giving hints or suggestions to their human or animal subjects, perhaps in something as subtle as body language or tone of voice.

Mar. 12, 2013 — A century old mystery as to why, for some animals, it's the father rather than the mother that takes care of their young has been cracked by researchers at the University of Sheffield.

Vitamin K2 is also produced by lactic acid bacteria, although bacteria produce forms of the vitamin that are chemically different from those that animals produce, and researchers have not yet established the differences in biological activity between these forms.

Overseen by Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit (AGBU) researcher Matt Wolcott, the project is intensively genotyping and collecting accurate records for male and female reproduction, growth and tropical adaptation traits in Kaiuroo stud bulls and females during the next three years.

Compiled by two of the most esteemed researchers in the food science industry, Leo M.L. Nollet and Fidel Toldrá, Sensory Analysis of Foods of Animal Origin identifies and quantifies the quality attributes to help those in the industry understand the importance of perceived sensory quality.

The BUAV noted that according to the review, one in ten experiments «did not have a medical benefit»; and that a number of key concerns were expressed by the review regarding animal welfare costs, the application and relevance to humans and the overstating of medical benefits by researchers.

When the researchers gave the mice a drug called lamotrigine, often prescribed for bipolar disorder, the animals» brain activity mimicked that of their resilient counterparts: The neurons in the already hyperactive VTA started firing even more intensely, followed by a lull and abatement of depression symptoms.

The researchers are excited by the results and their next step is to test the structures in larger animals.

In addition to ruling out an untimely goring, the researchers also excluded infection, cancer, erosion, and gnawing by animals as the cause thanks to the uniform shape of the hole.

Researchers have long explored this idea by observing animals such as chimpanzees, dolphins and elephants, but biologist Natalia Borrego of South Africa's University of KwaZulu - Natal focuses on big cats.

In medicine today, physician - scientists and basic scientists supplement support for their research by applying their expertise part time to develop and test commercial products.1 In my own field, vision science, university - based researchers obtain additional funding through clinical and electrophysiologic studies, pathology, imaging, biochemistry, and animal model development performed for pharmaceutical and instrument companies.

By studying human cancer cells and animal models of cancer in the lab, our researchers have shown that loss of PTEN leads to high levels of PI (3,4) P2, which could result in hyperactivation of AKT.

By looking at fruit flies, rather than social animals, the researchers believe that they have gained a greater understanding of the role that fear may play in the decline and extinctions of various populations.

When researchers create «chimeric» mice by injecting iPS cells into early - stage mouse embryos, the resulting animals are unusually prone to cancer.

But rather than trailing animal tracks, Lewis, a researcher at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is more interested in marks left behind by humans.

Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.

The researchers call this newly - discovered ACS - mediated mechanism a «lipid sensor» and believe it could be a widespread strategy by which animals translate cues from the environment into physiological responses.

The new study, conducted by researchers at Columbia University's Center for Infection and Immunity, promises to sway many of the holdouts by providing the first conclusive evidence that strep antibodies can induce neurological and psychiatric symptoms in healthy animals.

When researchers examined the animals over the next several months, they found that this approach cured a much higher proportion of mice than delivery of the drug by other techniques.

The researchers call the pattern they observed «spatial independence» and believe it stems from random spatial processes, including seed dispersal by animals.

Evidence that animal pheromones don't always work in they way we thought, backed up by a growing number of brain - imaging studies in humans, is convincing some researchers that we really do make and respond to pheromones.

The researchers tested what the webs could catch in the most direct way possible: by lobbing different prey animals at them from half a metre away.

Other tools in the researchers» arsenal were high - resolution tracking, which provided information about how the manta rays used the lagoon habitat over long and short periods of time; an acoustic camera, which logged patterns of the animals entrances and departures from the lagoons; and photo identification / laser photogrammetry — making measurements from photographs — which provided insight into whether the manta rays were staying in this habitat for longer time periods by tracking their comings and goings.

Page 46, by Jeff Wheelwright A solitary wolverine's long odyssey across the American West challenges assumptions researchers have long held about the animals.

A team of researchers led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Leipzig University carried out an experiment to simulate the warming of the soil in the forest and found out surprisingly: The warmer temperatures have no influence on the feeding activity of the soil animals.

By training sheep using pictures of these celebrities, researchers from the University of Cambridge discovered that the animals are able to recognize familiar faces from 2 - D images.

The aim of this study carried out by UPM researchers with the collaboration of Institute for Animal Science and Technology of UPV was to influence the ingredients of pig diet to modify the composition of slurry used as manures and to assess the possible variations on N2O emissions.

The researchers reported a 24-fold increase in adenosine concentration in the blood of the animals after acupuncture, which corresponded to a two - thirds reduction in discomfort, as revealed by how quickly they recoiled from heat and touch.

Darwin's big mystery was why there was no record at all before a specific point [dated to 542 million years ago by modern researchers], and then all of a sudden in the fossil record you get nearly all the major types of animals.

The researchers have now provided further evidence for this new theory by showing that the abnormal protein coded for this genetic disorder can be transmitted to normal animals by the injection of diseased cells into their brain.

The researchers found they could reverse the hyperalgesic effect by blocking certain receptors on neurons in the animals» spinal cord.

«Our study was conducted in a supervised setting, by researchers experienced in working with kids with autism spectrum disorders who understand the needs and requirements of the animals,» Dr. O'Haire said.

Researchers administering inhaled transgenic alpha - 1 antitrypsin from sheep bred by PPL discovered that some patients suffered pulmonary symptoms that caused them to leave the trial — a possible immune reaction to residual proteins from the animal that remained after purification of the drug.

However, researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid y Universidad Politécnica de Valencia have focused on the beginning of the chain, where the animal by - products are produced and then are revalued as fertilizers.

Researchers aren't sure where the outbreak originated or how it spread, but Ebola is usually caused by contact with a person or animal harboring the Ebola virus.

This has become a widespread weed present in 88 per cent of 24,824 of quadrats — small areas of habitat selected at random as samples for assessing the local distribution of plants and animals — monitored by researchers.

Several years ago researchers measured the older animals» production of new neurons — a process that usually diminishes with age — and found it could be rejuvenated by young blood.

Researchers observed that the rate at which Cassiopea jellyfish pulsed their bell decreased by one - third at night, and the animals were much slower to respond to external stimuli such as food or movement during that time.

These features help the animal catch dinner by letting it keep its head still and its eyes on the prize, even when the rest of its body is rapidly moving, the researchers write in Scientific Reports.

Indeed, the «Cambrian explosion» — the burst of evolution about 540 million years ago that included the birth of most of the major animal groups we know today — was enabled by oxygen deprivation, the researchers say.

The researchers induced depressionlike symptoms in rats by blasting static noise or otherwise annoying the animals at unpredictable intervals for several weeks.

The BPEC cell developed by the researchers is based on the naturally occurring process of photosynthesis in plants, in which light drives electrons that produce storable chemical energetic molecules, that are the fuels of all cells in the animal and plant worlds.

«We can ask animals how they see their surroundings by observing their movement,» says lead researcher Martin Wikelski.

A promising new avenue for treating hepatitis B has been reported by researchers at Hiroshima University who have developed a new animal model of the disease.

By attaching small data - logging packs with motion sensors to the backs of four colugos, researchers found that it takes one - and - a-half times more energy for the animals to climb up a tree and glide from point A to B than it does for them to move the same distance through the trees.

They did significantly better than expected by chance, and three researchers who had experience with dolphins were able to correctly identify all the animals, the team reported last month in Marine Mammal Science.

In an animal model, they demonstrated for the first time that two proteins designed by the researchers not only recover muscle force and increase body weight in the sick animals but also significantly prolong survival.