Sentences with phrase «for animals including humans»

This plant approach seems to have some resonance with many people since it seems easy to understand that less CO2, essential for photosynthesis, means less plant growth and thus less food for animals including humans.

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That means the company's up for creating anything, including «plants with enhanced traits,» according to Caribou's website, as well as animal and human editing.

Prior to launching Pillar, Cindy worked on searches for a number of high profile clients including Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Emeril Lagasse Foundation, U.S. Naval War College, Nantucket Athenaeum, Kellogg School of Management, Institute of Human Virology, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and World Animal Protection.

Theism explains everything we observe, argues Swinburne, including «the fact that there is a universe at all, that scientific laws operate within it, that it contains conscious animals and humans with very complex intricately organized bodies, that we have abundant opportunities for developing ourselves and the world, as well as the more particular data that humans report miracles and have religious experiences.»

Whatever is self - aware or able to value its own life (for example) is designated as a «person,» even if it is an animal, while people lacking these attributes are denigrated as human «non-persons» — an invidious category that includes all of the unborn, as well as (for many bioethics practitioners) infants and those with profound cognitive disabilities.

The public consensus veers between sympathy for animal rights — although it is only some animals that are included, you do no hear much about the «rights» of insects and spiders, for example — and uncertainty about the moral boundaries surrounding human life and death — although, of course, outright murder is still regarded as a crime.

Out of the Earth ~ Natural Raw Diet for Dogs Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

Many of the commercial dog food companies would have us believe that they actually use human grade meat in the production of their food, when in fact the sources of this «meat» are not even fit for animal consumption.In some areas of North America this list can also include euthanized companion animals from clinics and shelters, roadkill, zoo animals, livestock which die from disease or disability.The «meat» is purchased from a rendering plant which also receives material from slaughterhouses such as hair, feathers, hooves and any part of the mammal which is condemned for human consumtion.

Consumers purchase organic foods for different reasons, including concerns about the effects of conventional farming practices on the environment, human health, and animal welfare.

The lab - grown meat — which the company calls «clean meat» — is developed from self - reproducing cells taken from a chicken, with the purpose of creating a product that omnivores can't distinguish from the real thing, but with a fraction of the considerable downsides of meat production, including environmental destruction and using agricultural land to grow animal feed rather than crops for human consumption.

Further promoted advantages and promises by the industry include that RR crops create more yield than conventional crops, decrease farmers input costs by reducing the amount of herbicides sprayed and are safe for humans, animals and the environment.

The reason for this seems to be insulin - like growth factor (IGF), a protein that is released by the liver of all animals (humans included) in response to growth hormone.

Products were screened for over 130 toxins including heavy metals, BPA, pesticides and other contaminants with links to cancer and other health conditions in both humans and animals.

When relating the results of animal studies to human infants, important factors to consider include the choice of animal species for study, the stage of development (eg, prenatal or postnatal), and the duration and severity of deficiency or excessive intake.

The bill includes the creation of human - animals embryos for research as well as reforms that would allow lesbian couples and single women to access IVF.

And because there will always be humans who will do anything for money, including killing animals and collecting their body parts, elephants will continue to die.

Strategies that boost the cell's quality control programs, rather than disarm specific pathologic proteins, have looked promising in lab animals that serve as models for human neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia.

In a first for any animal, including humans, four cows injected with a type of HIV protein rapidly produced powerful antibodies against the virus, researchers report.

For most animals, including humans, an instinct for suitable habitat — a place that offers adequate food, breeding opportunities, and shelter — is the difference between life and deaFor most animals, including humans, an instinct for suitable habitat — a place that offers adequate food, breeding opportunities, and shelter — is the difference between life and deafor suitable habitat — a place that offers adequate food, breeding opportunities, and shelter — is the difference between life and death.

Vaccines developed using proteins rather than live viruses can help protect animals and subsequently humans from insect - borne viruses, according to Alan Young, chief scientific officer for Medgene Labs, an animal health company that develops therapeutics and diagnostics, including vaccines.

While the same exact mechanisms are unlikely to be at work in humans, Dr Gilestro thinks that a lot of what they observe in fruit flies is applicable to higher animals: «Sleep is a fundamental process for all animals, and many of the results the community has obtained with fruit flies have been replicated in other animals, including mammals and humans.

If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.

The U.N. declaration calls for action on multiple fronts, including slashing the use of antibiotics to promote growth in farm animals, limiting their use among humans to only when they are truly necessary and ramping up education about these issues.

Jeffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash, who performed their award - winning work at Brandeis University, share the honor with The Rockefeller University's Michael Young for their seminal discoveries explaining how living creatures — including plants, animals and humans — adapt their biological rhythms to align with Earth's rotation.

Connectomes have been drawn up for other animals, including humans, but they are much cruder.

Games used for the study included Prisoner's Dilemma, Stag Hunt and Battle of Sexes, which are often used in game theory - the science of logical decision making in humans, animals, and computers.

Dr Perry said: «Our results should provide new avenues for understanding the neural basis of cognition in all animals, including humans.»

In choosing a mate, for example, many animals (including humans) have distinct priorities.

The researchers from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health ranked the top 100 pathogens affecting humans and the top 100 affecting domestic animals using a system which, they believe, will help governments across the continent plan for risks associated with the spread of infectious diseases, including as a result of climate change, and for biosecurity.

If this same mechanism exists in other animals — possibly including humans — it could mean that there is a completely different way for a species to evolve in response to its environment.

Sheldrake contends that a variety of messages can be communicated telepathically between animals and humans, including fear, alarm, excitement, calls for help, anticipation of arrivals or departures, and distress.

This discard fish is unsuitable for human consumption and ends up in animal feeds, including in fishmeal that is fed to farm - raised fish.

For the animal study, the researchers separated 52 mice with colon cancer tumors into three groups, including a control group and groups that were fed either the grape compounds or sulindac, an anti-inflammatory drug, which was chosen because a previous study showed it significantly reduced the number of tumors in humans.

Titze and his colleagues, Tobias Riede of Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona and Ted Mau of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, compiled measurements of larynx characteristics for 16 species, including humans and animals ranging from mice to elephants.

Shamefully, accolades that resounded a generation ago for biotechnology advances — for instance, recombining DNA to develop human - derived insulin, which is much safer than the animal - derived products that came before — have been drowned out by a misinformed coalition of 114 organizations, including ETC Group and Friends of the Earth.

This dosing also exceeded the predicted human efficacious dose for AVI - 7288 estimated by three different models based upon the nonhuman primate studies that demonstrated up to 100 percent animal survival, including a delayed time - to - treat setting.

The curriculum includes both mandatory (core) and optional elements, and it far exceeds the basic federal requirements for training that universities must provide in bioethics, environmental health and radiation safety, and treatment of human and animal subjects.

He added that the existence of episodic memory in lower animals has implications for research on human diseases that affect memory, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, since the majority of research on the brain — and the drugs used to treat memory diseases and dementia — start out based on insights into how the brain works in rats.

«Antimicrobial resistance is a global threat to human and animal health with bacteria now resistant to the last - resort antibiotics, including carbapenems and polymyxins,» said corresponding author Ed Topp, PhD, Principal Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agri - Food, Canada, London, Ontario, describing the motivation for the research.

The research was carried out with fruit flies, but has implications for other animals, as many organisms, including humans, also have part of the Oskar protein.

It also lays the groundwork for his 1975 classic, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, which explores the then - controversial idea that the social behavior of animals, including humans, has a deep biological basis.

Animals with gene mutations that significantly alter their circadian rhythms have shorter life spans, and circadian rhythm sleep disorders in humans can have profoundly negative effects, including increased risk for obesity, depression, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Indeed, weakening influenza strains by passaging them in animals is an old technique for making human vaccines, including those for polio and yellow fever, according to virologist Vincent Racaniello of Columbia University.

For most animals, including humans, a lack of oxygen can be fatal in minutes.

This conference touched on a broad spectrum of topics encompassing scientific integrity, including gene therapy, guidelines for animal and human subject use, authorship, public health issues, and the involvement of minorities in research.

When grasslands feature a wide array of plant species, they provide a variety of benefits for humans and animals, including enhanced carbon storage capacity that can be quantified economically, according to a new scientific paper co-written by a University of Wyoming researcher.

To support his argument that we and other animals don't have an evolved capacity for number per se, Nunez cites several different strands of research in the current literature, including experimental work with humans from non-industrialized cultures, which suggests an imprecise approach to quantity.

The results, published in the current issue of Human Molecular Genetics, open the door for pursuing gene editing in nonhuman primates as models for new therapies, including pharmacological, gene - and stem cell - based therapies, said Keith Latham, MSU animal science professor and lead author of the study.

The study is part of a larger field of research on the importance of social networks for health and survival in primates and other animals, including humans.

«We are exploring alternative directions for developing this compound, including potential use of the animal efficacy rule,» Cihlar said, referring to a regulatory mechanism under which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may consider efficacy findings from adequate and well - controlled animal studies of a drug in cases where it is not feasible or ethical to conduct human trials.