Sentences with phrase «experiment on animals»

The optimism that followed the news of a 1 % fall in experiments on animals was short - lived.

Within its B - movie premise, Rise asks real questions about the future of humanity and the ethics of experimenting on animals... and doesn't take any easy answers.

I'm not against experimenting on animals when there's a real chance to learn something.

Supporting legislation to prohibit elementary and secondary school students from performing experiments on animals which cause or could cause pain, suffering or death.

While conducting experiments on an animal fed a sugar - free diet, Bernard discovered that the liver stores sugar as glycogen.

The new law for the first time spells out minimum county standards for kennels, prohibits vivisection and medical experiments on animals as well as requiring cat licenses and giving animal control officers greater enforcement powers to curb barking dogs and wandering cats.

Why are UK scientists still conducting antiquated experiments on animals that have, for decades, proved ineffective, while modern non-animal testing methods have advanced by leaps and bounds?

To be sure, there was a significant male bias in laboratory experiments on animals — neuroscience research skewed heavily toward the use of males, and five times more studies were conducted solely with male animals than with females or a mixture of the sexes.

The report's summary said that researchers should avoid experiments on animals so closely related to humans unless the work is impossible to carry out in other animals or «is of sufficient scientific or health value to offset the moral costs».

Insights from experiments on animals are often difficult to apply to humans, Hartung, of Johns Hopkins University, said in a news briefing February 12.

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.

Introductions - Lord Singh of Wimbledon and Lord Carry of Kirkharle Questions - paediatric cardiac services, regulating healthcare assistants, Youth Justice Board, improving teaching of sex and relationships education in schools Legislation - coinage (measurement) bill, education bill Short debate - changing regulations governing experiments on animals

A full 64 % of adults are concerned that scientists are conducting unlicensed experiments on animals, and more than half do not trust scientists not to cause animals unnecessary suffering.

Laboratory experiments on animals indicate that as doses decrease, less and less damage escapes DNA - repair mechanisms, says Yoshihisa Matsumoto, a radiation biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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.»

By ARNOLD ARLUKE Animal Experiments: The great debate This week New Scientist launches a major series on the controversy that surrounds scientific experiments on animals.

«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.

In lab experiments on animal models, performed in collaboration with Matthias Hebrok, PhD, director of the Diabetes Center at UCSF, Dr. Ding and his team used a carefully screened set of small molecules to transform skin cells into early - stage pancreas cells.

PETA has recognized Emulate for how our system is «revolutionizing science and replacing experiments on animals».

Meanwhile, Dr. Jekyll is conducting the usual lab experiments on animals before injecting himself with serum, transforming into the vicious Mr. Hyde and launching a killing spree against fellow doctors who scoffed at him.

Not content with experimenting on animals alone, he began to use his own body making incisions in his own flesh, and adding chemical compounds or electric current to gauge the response of his muscles.

Further experiments on animals showed that they dream too, as do babies.

And some people steal cats in order to get a «free» pet or to sell the cat to research labs that still experiment on animals.

a. the keeping and care of animals; b. experiments on animals and procedures carried out on living animals; c. the use of animals; d. the import of animals and animal products; e. the trade in animals and the transport of animals; f. the slaughter of animals.

Campaigners have expressed disappointment after it emerged the government's main defence laboratory is steadily increasing its number of experiments on animals.

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.

So why are UK scientists still conducting antiquated experiments on animals that have, for decades, proved ineffective, while modern non-animal testing methods have advanced by leaps and bounds?

They perform experiments on animals, so why would in the world I purchase a food product for...

Selye and others were able to demonstrate in experiments on animals that during the alarm phase the amount of two hormones, adrenaline and non-adrenaline, increased in the blood.

These surprising results were obtained from experiments on animals, but the extrapolation of data on humans would mean an average life extension of about 10 years.

In the 1960s, the US government established the regional primate centers, where scientists could study and conduct experiments on animals that are closely related to human beings.

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?

DSTL claims the number of its experiments on animals is lower than would otherwise be required because of «burden - sharing» with other countries.

In July 2010, figures published by the Home Office showed that experiments on animals in the UK had fallen by 1 % to just over 3.6 million, with a 10 % decrease in the number of toxicology tests carried out on animals.

Among other things, the law requires facilities to win approval for animal experiments from the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals.

Thanks to experiments on animals and the advent of human brain imaging, scientists now have a working knowledge of the various kinds of memory as well as which parts of the brain are involved in each.

Her plans hit a roadblock when she realized that «I could never bring myself to experiment on animals.»

Experiments on animals have previously shown that the immune system can affect cognitive capabilities, and more recent minor studies in humans have also pointed in that direction.

When his experiments on animals fail, he finds the ideal substitute — Jobe Smith (Jeff Fahey), a slow - witted gardener.

Looking at the scenarios where it's consider okay to experiment on animals and the reasons why this is the case.

I'm pretty embarrassed at my support of products that experiment on animals.

She takes the stand that she prefers not to experiment on animals and all her studies have been on animals who have become infected or sick naturally and whose veterinary surgeons or guardians have contacted her.

His «no bash, no trash» philosophy is not a «go along to get along» avoidance of conflict, but rather an appreciation that the no - kill philosophy is part of a wider understanding that ends don't justify means, whether that's killing animals to solve a shelter population problem, experimenting on animals to find remedies for human disease or bad mouthing and vilifying our opponents to achieve a desirable end.

Students at all levels who object to experimenting on animals or dissecting animals should be provided an opportunity to choose alternate projects, approved by their teaches, without a grade reduction.

While studies like Musser and Bowles» add valuable understanding to these mysterious creatures, the question remains: should humans be experimenting on animals in these circumstances?