Sentences with phrase «first lab mammal»

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Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

Ralph Brinster, part of the team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia that first cultured sperm stem cells in the lab, has written that culturing stem cells from human sperm is not far off — humans and mice, like other mammals, he says, require similar growth factors.

In 2009, under the Interventions Testing Program of the National Institute of Aging that also funded this research, the Harrison lab reported that rapamycin significantly extends the lifespan of mice, the first demonstration of a pharmaceutical intervention to do so in mammals.