Sentences with phrase «doing animal experiments»

But of course we'll need to start doing animal experiments.

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Discussion of animals in a theological context, when it does arise, has tended to be limited to moral questions: Can we experiment on animals, and if so, for what purpose?

Animal experiments will resolve the question of what manipulating nanog can accomplish, and until then, unsupported and inflammatory assertions about producing «a crippled embryo» do not contribute to a reasoned debate.

There could have been a whole host of reasons why your animal started doing the correct part of the experiment without the lamp on.

Doing so would not lead us to treat animals like people but rather to treat the weakest people like animals, opening the door to such things as conducting medical experiments on the cognitively disabled, which has already been proposed in bioethics literature.

I do also recognize a hierarchy of living beings in that I regard human life as more valuable than animal life and would not oppose essential medical experiments on animals, although I am not persuaded that all experiments are essential.

The US government have done extensive experiments with animals where they've found roughly one in ten of them (given an equal choice) repeatedly show a sexual preference for the same sex — the animals, not the US government.

This is done routinely in experiments with animals and occasionally with human patients undergoing neurological treatment.

Duranty's morals are neatly summed up in one of his 1935 dispatches: «It may be objected that the vivisection of living animals is a sad and dreadful thing, and it is true that the lot of [those] who have opposed the Soviet experiment is not a happy one,» but «in both cases, the suffering inflicted is done with a noble purpose.»

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We can not use randomized controlled experiments with people but do so with animals, demonstrating, for example in Michael Meaney's lab, that affectionate touch in early life is critical for epigenetic controls of anxiety in mammals.

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.

39 % said they did not support the use of animals in any experiments.

«The interesting thing here was that we did not simply carry out a dietary experiment, but instead considered the behavior of the animals,» he commented on the approach.

It has been challenging to study liver cirrhosis, also called end - stage liver disease, because most animals used in experiments do not develop the disease.

How do known physiology, animal experiments, or ecological data provide a context for your findings?

They were able to do so by building on an experiment showing that grafting a peripheral nerve into the space between a severed spinal cord in an animal model brought about nerve regeneration (albeit limited).

Dennis Turner, an evolutionary biologist who studies companion animals at the Institute for Applied Ethology and Animal Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland, says the experiment only loosely resembles real - life adoptions, so more work needs to be done before he's convinced.

Nonetheless, there is more to do; all institutions which conduct or fund animal experiments should have a clear statement online, explaining how and why they do this, in order that the public can understand the important role of animals in research.»

Despite a dearth of human studies, more than 400 experiments have been done since the early 1970s to determine how cell phone radiation affects animals, cells and DNA.

In a report published earlier this month, the French committee says: «Contrary to all recognised rules for medical research, the first trials on humans were done even though experiments on animals were still extremely limited.»

«The great thing about doing this on the computer is that it allows you to reduce and possibly eventually eliminate animal experiments,» Radovitzky says.

Studies of IBD are typically performed using cell culture experiments or animal models, which don't mimic the precise conditions that occur in the gut of human patients.

«Animal experimenters used to do what they wanted, and now they are increasingly under pressure to justify their work,» says Silke Strittmatter of Doctors Against Animal Experiments Germany, an animal rights group in CoAnimal experimenters used to do what they wanted, and now they are increasingly under pressure to justify their work,» says Silke Strittmatter of Doctors Against Animal Experiments Germany, an animal rights group in CoAnimal Experiments Germany, an animal rights group in Coanimal rights group in Cologne.

So, if I would try to do this experiment with elephants or even fruit flies, I would need enormous numbers of animals and enormous numbers of animal counter [s], and a tremendous amount of money; but to do this experiment in yeast [is much easier], because we can grow billions and billions of yeast over night.

A few years ago, however, neuroscientist Paul Frankland of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, noticed that some of the animals in his experiment actually did worse on certain memory tasks when their neuron birth rates had been ramped up.

They also did the inverse experiment, with the anticipated results: reducing the levels of these tRNAs in metastatic cells decreased the incidence of metastases in the animals.

«Although the doses of EDCs were somewhat high, we did this to simulate their effects of daily exposure, as well as body accumulation due to long - term exposure, simultaneously in animal experiments,» said Choi.

By LYNDA BIRKE and MIKE MICHAEL Despite the controversy surrounding animal experiments, we know very little about how scientists who do research on animals view their work.

But scepticism remains because the experiment that would prove prions are the infectious agent — injecting animals with pure prions — has not been done.

The loss was bad for the vaccine: In a series of experiments Hensley and his colleagues showed antibodies from humans and ferrets (a good animal model for influenza A studies) that had been exposed to the egg - grown vaccine did not effectively kill the circulating sugar - adorned viruses.

«The technology we used in these four individuals was initially designed for the suppression of back pain, and our animal experiments have told us that we can do much better,» said Edgerton.

«Animal experiments led to the conclusion that mammalian eggs do not have polarity, but I think that's a huge fallacy,» said David Albertini, a developmental biologist at Tufts University in Boston.

«These half - measures will do little or nothing to prevent the harassment, intimidation, and violence,» says Mark Matfield, executive director of the Research Defense Society, which represents scientists who experiment on animals.

Ross studies chimp cognition at his zoo using a touchscreen that the animals can interact with whenever they feel like, and he says he doesn't see why similar experiments couldn't be conducted in sanctuaries.

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.

Using ferrets, the most common animal for influenza testing, the experiments found the virus did not infect the animal.

Although the substance did not provoke the symptoms seen in the previous experiment, Hsiao says that the animals» altered response suggests that the substance could play a role in the disorder.

The application is on hold, the agency has told him, as NIH reconsiders its rules for the kind of experiments he wants to do: mixing human stem cells into very early animal embryos and letting them develop, a strategy that could produce tissues or organs for transplantation.

And I suspect it's because when we do cognition experiments with animals, so we try to measure their cognitive abilities; we put an animal individually in a cage or some kind of an apparatus and we ask it questions and we see how well it performs.

This activity did not appear at the start of the experiment or when the animals were eating standard chow that was not high fat.

In another experiment, the researchers tested whether the animals» inability to form social memories might have to do with deficits in olfaction (sense of smell), which is crucial for normal social interaction.

«One of the basic expectations from this conceptual framework is that animal and plant experiments that do not account for what is happening at the microbiological level will be incomplete and, in some cases, will be misleading as well,» said Bordenstein.

The initial results of the cow study, showing that people do empathize with the animal, indicate that the same model could be useful in other experiments, he said.

The U.S. continued to launch animals for scientific experiments but increasingly concentrated on smaller creatures such as mice and insects, which are easier to care for and take up much less space (although two squirrel monkeys did ride on the space shuttle Challenger's STS -51-B mission in April - May 1985.)

Most of the experiments were done under precise conditions, at a wide range of radiation doses and usually for the lifetime of the animals.

All together INRA facilities power up (1) Research in multi-disciplinary domains through academic and industrial collaborations for the development of large animal models, therapeutics or new imaging devices, and (2) Training under several topics (biocontained experiments, introduction of new imaging methods for large animal models etc.), welcoming external teams which do not possess such an instrumental park for Transnational access.

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While Gurdon's tadpoles did not survive to grow into adult frogs, his experiment showed that the process of specialization in animal cells was reversible, and his technique of nuclear transfer paved the way for later cloning successes.

The scientific models that do not allow for full replacement are constantly refined and reduced to keep the number of animal experiments to a minimum.