Sentences with phrase «from animals or humans»

Researchers working to understand how to manipulate this powerful tool get their supply from stem cell lines, groups of stem cells derived from animal or human tissue that can reproduce themselves indefinitely.

The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Biology, Psychology, Bioengineering, or other closely related field, and will have expertise in conducting electrophysiology experiments as well as analyzing electrophysiological signals from animal or human studies.

Not exact matches

By printing multiple lung airways — or any other afflicted organ — from a human patient and testing drugs on them, pharma companies can bypass the ethically challenged practice of testing on animals and proceed to human clinical trials with greater confidence the drugs will actually work, according to Wadsworth.

Having or practicing a religion is one of many things that separates humans from animals.

believerfred «Thor and the like are man made from known matter and energy with most having human or other animal physiology»

The point of all this is that dominance is the one animal instinct the human race either inherited from its primate forebears and retained after losing all the other instincts, or acquired by imitating this animal behavior when the human race fell from a higher nature.

As we know from mythology, it was the habit of Jupiter to wander the earth in the form of man, animal, or bird and thereby make contact with human beings.

But cruelty to animals is morally different from human predation on animals — eating animals» flesh and using their hides and other parts for clothing, food or shelter.

For the talk about the natural changes of human life over the years, together with what externally happened there, is not in essence any different from talking of plant or of animal life.

While humans were evolving into social animals, those that lacked certain innate values, the «morals» that she references, were likely killed or expelled from the tribe or collective.

I am not arguing that God gave us this consciousness by a special act or that this is what separates human beings from all other animals.

Unlike humans, who can and often do set out to make others suffer, animals are primarily concerned to «protect their territory,» as students of their behavior tell us, or to save their young from attack, or to secure necessary supplies of food for their survival.

Human groundwater contamination can be related to waste disposal (private sewage disposal systems, land disposal of solid waste, municipal wastewater, wastewater impoundments, land spreading of sludge, brine disposal from the petroleum industry, mine wastes, deep - well disposal of liquid wastes, animal feedlot wastes, radioactive wastes) or not directly related to waste disposal (accidents, certain agricultural activities, mining, highway deicing, acid rain, improper well construction and maintenance, road salt).

In fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as well.

I bring the conversation up because it came to mind last week when I was reading about a Christian ethicist so passionately committed to defending the (unmistakably) exceptional nature of human beings that he thinks it necessary to forbid his children any sentimental solicitude for the suffering of beasts, and to disabuse them of the least trace of the dangerous fantasy or pathetic fallacy that animals experience anything analogous to human emotions, motives, or needs; they can not really, he insists, know anxiety, grief, regret, or disappointment, and so we should never allow them to divert our sympathies or ethical longings from their proper object.

In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

[37] In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.

He / she / it, is just another atheist who can't understand that having or practicing a religion is one of those traits that separates and differentiates us HUMAN beings from animals.

Rebirth may be into the order of human beings once again; or according to the classical form of the doctrine, transmigration into the animal realm; or into a higher order of heavens; and at the highest, the delivered self can escape from the round of rebirth to rest within the reality of eternity.

The desert weather in the winter although might not have snow it becomes so much colder than at yours since it is being open to the cold dry or humid winds that could break the bones of any human or animal if not well covered with wool and protected by some thing from direct blows... heat is there during sunrise and sunset but after that it is too much to bear.

We are nothing apart from what our moments of living contribute to future life, and this means to some or all of the following: our own future experiences; future experiences of other human beings, nonhuman animals, or plants; divine experience, this last contribution containing all the value whatsoever that our moments can have.

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.

«We could feed 4 billion more people with existing cropland if we just used the crops for first - hand human consumption, rather than making animal feed or biofuels from it,» she told MFM.

Your vote at this year's Annual Meeting of Shareholders on June 22, 2016 is critically important to the future of RiceBran Technologies («RiceBran» or the «Company») and to continuing the significant progress your Board of Directors (the «Board») has made transitioning your Company from a predominantly animal nutrition company to a fast growing provider of functional food ingredients, human food ingredients and packaged functional foods.

IMPORT ALERT # 99 - 29 «Detention without physical examination of all vegetable protein products from China for animal or human food use due to the presence of Melamine and / or Melamine Analogs»

[41] Human — animal breastfeeding shows that many babies were fed more or less directly from animals, particularly goats.

The Cook County ordinance requires suburban pet stores sell animals from government shelters, rescue agencies and human societies or federally licensed breeders with fewer than five reproducing female animals.

Parents may benefit from knowing that every animal evolved with a developmental niche or «nest» for its young, and that the developmental niche for human infants has evolved to provide the care needed by the world's most fragile, immature mammal at birth.

It's found in soil, food, or water that has been contaminated with feces (poop) from infected humans or animals.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

Prosecuting would be a «difficult and unworkable task, as little or no evidence is available regarding [the substances»] pharmacological activities in vivo in humans and expert witnesses may be reluctant to extrapolate data from animal models, in silico or in vitro studies,» lecturer in criminal law Amber Marks told the committee.

Leendertz and colleagues from several different scientific disciplines traveled to Meliandou hoping to find the animal source, or reservoir, and learn more about how the disease might have spilled over into humans.

If you have little ones or furry friends, check this spec to determine if a spray is formulated with non-hazardous ingredients, so you can keep your humans and animals safe from toxic chemicals.

Humans can not catch warts from toads or other animals.

Elsewhere, Leckey moves sideways from our relationship with objects to ask what happens when humans (or animals) are turned into objects.

Evidence from animal and small - scale human studies suggests that pioglitazone may prevent or reverse Alzheimer's - related pathology and symptoms.

«From our earlier research, we already know that goats are smarter than their reputation suggests, but these results show how they can communicate and interact with their human handlers even though they were not domesticated as pets or working animals.»

The wedge is used for parting or separating materials, and its first use by early humans might have been in skinning animals — separating a hide from flesh.

If fenugreek sprouts were the source, they were probably contaminated by runoff from an animal feedlot or from fresh manure or sewage, since E. coli grows only in human or animal intestines.

Cajochen adds that this circalunar rhythm might be a relic from a past in which the moon could have synchronized human behaviors for reproductive or other purposes, much as it does in other animals.

To develop the test, the researchers targeted unique stretches of DNA or RNA from every known group of viruses that infects humans and animals.

The proposed institute would engage a dozen or more research groups in the task of figuring out how human or animal behavior springs from information processing at the level of neural circuits.

Oral biologics are drugs based on biological molecules derived from natural substances from humans, animals or microorganisms.

The journal provides cutting - edge research including results from animal models that are likely to apply to patients, studies in human tissue that provide new information about therapies or disease, and innovative reports of drug discovery and development.

«As humans encroach ever more steadily into natural ecosystems, the risk increases that pathogens will be transmitted from humans to animals, or vice versa,» Pallen concluded.

«Our vision is to apply the same approach but rapidly screen non-synthetic, biological or «natural» molecules cloned from human or other genomes, including those of plants, animals and microbes,» he said.

Unable to produce the vitamin itself, the human body has to obtain it from animal - based foods such as milk products, eggs, red meat, chicken, fish, and shellfish — or vitamin supplements.

Biologists have long debated the specific traits that set humans apart from other animals: Is it self - awareness, or morality, or emotions?

In other words, antibiotic resistance coming from Africa or Saudi Arabia is still a very minor threat compared to that caused and spread by human activity, especially animal husbandry.