Sentences with phrase «first test animal»

Sarah Tuite, a spokesperson for Menu Foods, refused to comment on the lag time between the first test animal's death and the date of the recall.

Not exact matches

They're unhappy first of all because she's representing a brand who allows their products to be tested on animals, but especially because the «Cheap Thrills» singer is vegan and, in their eyes, should care even more about animal welfare.

It is customary and even ethically mandatory that experimentation that carries with it a substantial degree of risk to human subjects first be tested in an animal laboratory or, at the very least, on a computer model.

I have the uneasy feeling,» I wrote, «that the first few hundred test - tube babies should have been simians» («Test - Tube Conception: Troubling Issues,» August 16 - 23, 1978) I was not only overready to foresee bad news for humankind if this new technique were adopted; I was also, as current animal - rights spokespersons might point out, a humankind chauvintest - tube babies should have been simians» («Test - Tube Conception: Troubling Issues,» August 16 - 23, 1978) I was not only overready to foresee bad news for humankind if this new technique were adopted; I was also, as current animal - rights spokespersons might point out, a humankind chauvinTest - Tube Conception: Troubling Issues,» August 16 - 23, 1978) I was not only overready to foresee bad news for humankind if this new technique were adopted; I was also, as current animal - rights spokespersons might point out, a humankind chauvinist.

First point is invalid since the article is from 2015... Second point too since the method has now been fully tested on animals and is really fail - safe.

The first activist then jokes that he or she is «gonna run some medical experiments on them» before the second adds: «We could use them as substitutes for animals when testing.»

Tests first identified the toxins in mucus coating a bootlace species that holds the record as the world's longest animal, says pharmacognosist Ulf Göransson of Uppsala University in Sweden.

The researchers caution that the booster therapy used in their new study will not be available on the market or even for use in human trials anytime soon; it must await years of animal testing for safety and effectiveness first.

For six of the pesticides that showed hormonal activity for the first time, the authors said they «strongly recommend» the next round of testing, using lab animals.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

The study is one of the first to test if the «landscape of fear» model, a scientific theory that has been used to explain how animals move and interact with the environment based on their fear of being attacked by their predators, is applicable to large open marine systems involving wide - ranging species, like sharks and turtles.

When it comes to animals, the problem is compounded for two main reasons: First, it is very difficult to design and administer tests that pick up on overall smarts instead of specific skills, such as the keen memories of food - hoarding birds or the fine motor skills of chimpanzees that make tools for finding insects in trees.

The first step is to test HAMLET as a tumor killer in animals.

The first sea - floor lab to test the effects of CO2 (top) on deep - sea animals didn't kill these caged eelpouts and an octopus, but sea urchins died and their spines dissolved (bottom, before and after

She and her colleagues carefully evaluated the animals» behavior before, during, and after the first test as well as on subsequent tests.

Tests later showed that the animal had been suffering from North America's first homegrown case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.

First, they ruled out avian flu by testing serum samples from the animals for flu antibodies.

Many animals test their legs and totter forth only hours after they are born, but humans need a year before they take their first, hesitant steps.

But the development of nanoparticle carriers has been slowed by the challenges of testing them, first in cell culture to identify promising nanoparticles, and later in animals.

Some have raised concerns about the safety and efficacy of the procedure, saying the team should have tested the approach in animals first.

Better drugs could provide relief, but before giving new medicines to people, researchers must first test them in animals — a costly and laborious process.

The first genetic clues for slowing aging emerged from animal models in which the effect of individual genes on average life spans could be tested.

In one of the scenarios Honda is testing, the first car traveling in a group of three slams on the brakes to avoid hitting an animal, which sends an immediate warning to the following vehicles and sends a picture of the situation to their dashboards.

Previous studies have found similar patterns in birds, mice and other animals, but this is the first time the phenomenon has been tested in humans, Samson said.

To test the elephants» cooperation skills, a team of scientists modified a classic experiment first administered to chimpanzees in the 1930s, which requires two animals work together to earn a treat.

It is the first study demonstrating that the extract protects against oral cancer, with the results of human, animal and laboratory tests reported in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.

They also tested Rapalink's ability to inhibit tumor growth in animal experiments, and found that it reduced the size of tumors that were resistant to first - or second - generation mTOR inhibitors.

This knowledge opens up possibilities about treatment ideas that can be tested in animal models as a first step toward human trials.

A new study by JCU PhD student Anna Pintor, published in the journal Ecological Monographs, is one of the first to test the Climatic Variability Hypothesis (CVH)-- which proposes that animals living in environmentally variable areas should be able to tolerate more environmental fluctuations as a result.

«When we first tested dietary supplements in animal models we found that the results were promising,» says Byers.

The French team claims to be the first to test for the animal's whole lifespan.

First of all, the researchers tested whether the animals can make use of communicative cues, such as direct eye - contact and pointing gestures to choose the correct object.

It is likely that the proteins will be tested first in plants and animals where regulatory approvals are less strict than they are for human drugs.

«Going forward we will need much more precise constraints on the magnitude of oxygenation and the physiological requirements of early animals to continue testing the impact of oxygenation on Cambrian animal life,» said Erik Sperling, an assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University, and first author on the paper.

The protein, called glial cell - line derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), was first isolated in 1993 and has so far only been tested in animals.

To test the effects of such exposure, the researchers must first create an animal model.

«Our next step is to test Alphamers in animal models of infection with multidrug - resistant bacteria that pose a public health threat, such as MRSA,» said first author Sascha Kristian, PhD, visiting research scholar at UC San Diego and associate research director at Altermune Technologies, a company Mullis founded to develop Alphamers into unique therapeutics.

«The time from selection of the target through discovery of the antibody and completion of initial animal tests totaled only about five months,» said Hongkai Zhang, a research associate in the Lerner laboratory who was first author of the study.

Many drugs you'd find on a pharmacy shelf were first tested on animals.

A team of 60 employees, led by Laikind, first tested the stem cell implantation on animals, which saw success.

First, they must test the sugar sponge on animals that are more similar to humans, such as macaque monkeys.

At this stage the fastest way to find out what any specific change does is to try it, first in animal studies, and then confirming in human tests.

Our findings first confirmed previous work with this model in demonstrating that compared to undefeated control animals, mice most susceptible to social defeat stress demonstrated a number of abnormalities in social avoidance, depression and anxiety as measured by routine test procedures.

Since these findings uncovered a link between p75NTR and metabolism, the research team tested — first in a petri dish and then in animal models — whether there was also a link between p75NTR and the circadian clock.

Previous studies have found similar patterns in birds, mice and other animals, but this is the first time the phenomenon has been tested in humans.

Once a drug has gone through animal testing and continues to look promising for humans, it has to go through extensive testing to make sure it's not toxic — first to animals and then to humans.

This proof - of - concept study, which tested MVA, Ad26, and Ad35 vector - based vaccines, is the first to show partial vaccine protection in the stringent animal model involving heterologous, neutralization - resistant SIVmac251 viral challenges in rhesus monkeys.

Dr. Jay Nelson stated the first hurdle in testing possible vaccine candidates is determining an appropriate animal model for the Zika virus.

It is the first time that both models were compared using proprietary, very sensitive behavioral tests that may have the capability to increase even predictive drug testing in animals models of AD.

Using a proprietary extraction technique, they isolated it and then tested its effects, first in animals and then in humans.