Sentences with phrase «conducting human experiments»

A doctor described as the resident physician to the twisted upstate sex cult Nxivm has been charged by a state oversight board with illegally conducting human experiments.

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Thus, for example, I will not address the question of whether we could rightly conduct the first experiments in human cloning, given the likelihood that such experiments would not at first fully succeed.

As I stated in my original article, prior to conducting experiments with human cells, ANT - OAR techniques would need to be rigorously tested in animal models to establish a procedure that guarantees with reasonable certainty that an embryo is not generated.

Animal Research: For nearly four decades, the animal liberation movement has been at war with medical research conducted on animals — even though conducting such experiments before trying new drugs or procedures on people is a crucial human rights protection established in the Nuremberg Code.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington - based group that promotes low - fat, vegetarian diets and opposes what it deems inhumane experiments on animals and humans, acknowledges that it has conducted no independent research.

In terms of the goal of controlling behavior, he viewed humans, and their conditioned responses, in much the same way as he viewed the animals upon which he conducted his experiments.

A physician who allegedly conducted human brain - activity experiments on people associated with the NXIVM corporation has apparently not published a scientific study in years and there is no indication his private research was being overseen by an independent review board, according to a medical expert and records of the NIH and U.S. National Library of Medicine.

With vast differences in the physiology of different species and poorly conducted experiments, it comes as no surprise that 92 % of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests prove to be ineffective or even dangerous to humans.

This experiment was just one part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), the only comprehensive set of moon - based studies humans have ever conducted.

I'll start: I conduct experiments to answer questions about human biology.

Some people consider this to be a remarkable aspect of human physiology; others consider it to be an illusion arising from the way medical experiments were conducted.

To get a sense of what happens when soldiers are wounded, the students first conducted experiments with a gel that mimics the consistency of human tissue.

16 Waiting to exhale: In 1907 a Massachusetts doctor conducted an experiment with a specially designed deathbed and reported that the human body lost 21 grams upon dying.

«Before this study, it was not known if it is possible to produce sufficient numbers of these cells and successfully use them to remuscularize damaged hearts in a large animal whose heart size and physiology is similar to that of the human heart,» said Dr. Charles Murry, UW professor of pathology and bioengineering, who led the research team that conducted the experiment.

Dr. Zubair, medical and scientific director of the Cell Therapy Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Florida, says the experiment will be the first one Mayo Clinic has conducted in space and the first to use these human stem cells, which are found in bone marrow.

Morgan and University of Liverpool archaeologist Natalie Uomini arrived at their conclusions by conducting a series of experiments in teaching contemporary humans the art of «Oldowan stone - knapping,» in which butchering «flakes» are created by hammering a hard rock against certain volcanic or glassy rocks, like basalt or flint.

Although the Harvard criteria were based on zero patients and no experiments were conducted either with humans or animals, they soon became the standard for declaring people dead in several states, and in 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) was sanctioned by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

Experiments and observations may be conducted on humans, animals, cell cultures, chemical platforms, etc..

In experiments conducted on human lung endothelial cells and in mice, the researchers showed that NS1 caused permeability of the endothelium, which lines the walls of blood and lymph vessels.

The so - called «human challenge model» has a long and checkered past that began with 18th century experiments by smallpox vaccine developer Edward Jenner and later fell under intense scrutiny when they were conducted by Nazi doctors, military researchers, and academic scientists working with prisoners.

As for the animal model, the researchers hope to now conduct experiments in monkeys or other species that more closely resemble humans.

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

A panel, appointed by the Clinton administration in early 1994 to look into these matters, has so far documented 400 government - backed biomedical experiments involving human exposure to radiation conducted between 1944 and 1975.

Lifshin and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments based on their existing work on terror management theory — the idea that humans» awareness of their own mortality is a strong motivator for behaviors that may help quell the fear of death.

Later, as a student at Harvard Medical School, he helped conduct some of the first controlled human experiments with marijuana.

Professor Elizabeth Phelps and her colleagues designed and conducted similar experiments in both rats and healthy humans.

But in September last year the team announced it had applied to conduct genome editing on these embryos — five months after researchers in China had reported experiments applying CRISPR — Cas9 genome editing to non-viable human embryos, which sparked a debate about how or whether to draw the line on gene - editing in human embryos.

Experiments conducted in mice and in human ALS cells reveal that when RIPK1 is out of control, it can spark axonal damage by setting off a chemical chain reaction that culminates in stripping the protective myelin off of axons and triggering axonal degeneration — the hallmark of ALS.

It has given researchers faster or simpler ways to modify the DNA of crops and animals, conduct biomedical experiments, and, most controversially, genetically engineer human embryos.

The researchers conducted extensive social experiments and analyzed the data from other studies to determine the percentage of reciprocal friendships and their impact on human behavior.

Ruina knew Papadopoulos was right, but he has conducted several experiments over the years in which the «athlete is smarter than the natural scientist,» where a human did something that a hypothesis said was impossible.

The study, published in the journal Human Brain Mapping, is one of the largest and most comprehensive experiments of individual differences in decision - making conducted to date, the researchers said, with 304 healthy adult participants.

The researchers spent nearly a year optimizing techniques in mouse embryos and human stem cells before conducting human embryo experiments, Niakan says.

Delgado also conducted stimoceiver experiments in cats, monkeys, chimpanzees, and even human psychiatric patients.

So far, all the experiments have been conducted in normal mice and human follicles.

To address this question, Vouloumanos conducted a series of experiments in which 12 - month - old infants viewed human actors communicating in multiple ways.

The researchers conducted an experiment using Aldebaran Robotics» NAO human - shaped robot.

Previously, researchers had to conduct costly and time - consuming experiments with animals or human subjects to see how the nervous system responds to a given touch stimulus.

The «cheerleader» study cost the government about $ 4000, Vul estimates, the cost of conducting an experiment with human subjects and the computing time needed to analyze the results.

A team headed by Professor Oliver Ullrich from the University of Zurich's Institute of Anatomy is now conducting an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) to study whether this also applies to human cells.

«Research on the ISS is being conducted in areas as diverse as high - energy particle physics, Earth remote sensing, protein crystallization, human physiology, radiation, plant cultivation experiments, fluids, combustion, materials science and biology,» she said.

Experiments conducted by lead author Fatima Syed - Picard, Ph.D., also of Pitt's Department of Ophthalmology, and the team showed that stem cells of the dental pulp, obtained from routine human third molar, or wisdom tooth, extractions performed at Pitt's School of Dental Medicine, could be turned into corneal stromal cells called keratocytes, which have the same embryonic origin.

In 1926 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland, Davis started the most influential experiment ever conducted to address the question of human likes and dislikes.

Next, the researchers conducted a set of experiments to determine whether prototype - based machine learning could actually improve human decision - making.

While a portion of this research was conducted in mice, the actual vaccine discovery experiments were performed using human samples, thus we believe the results will effectively translate to humans.»

«Mendel conducted classic genetic experiments with peas that revealed the fundamental of inheritance in many organisms including humans,» explains Ethan Bier, a professor of biology at UC San Diego whose graduate student, Valentino Gantz, developed the method.

Stem cells collected from human corneas restore transparency and don't trigger a rejection response when injected into eyes that are scarred and hazy, according to experiments conducted in mice by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

And, in those areas to which we commit, we assemble the best scientists in the world, give them sufficient resources to take chances and conduct the hard experiments, create the best infrastructure to support their research, and explore creative models to help discoveries get one step closer to improving human lives.

In the «Proving Ground» stage that follows, the space agency will not only conduct experiments and operations in the cislunar space — the space around the moon — it will also develop and test technologies required for human exploration of Mars.

The first stage of the plan — which is already underway — focuses on testing technologies and studying the impact of long - duration missions and microgravity on human health through experiments conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS).