Sentences with phrase «genetically altered animal»

The door to creating designer species blew open in March when scientists announced the first successful demonstration of genetically altered animals passing their tweaked DNA automatically to their progeny.

He reports that Advanced Cell Technology plans to clone genetically altered animals whose neural tissue would be immunologically compatible with that of humans.

Debate over whether genetically altered animals can be patented in Europe took a new turn last week after the European Patent Office published its patent for the Harvard «onco - mouse».

Over 97 % of the genetically altered animals were mice or zebrafish [Table 20]

That is until George happens upon a toxic gas designed to genetically alter animals to massively grow in size and aggression in order to destroy literally everything.

But as various genetically altered animals grow and grow and become more and more angry, the movie gradually becomes shameless, until it's a full - on modern - day monster movie, with lots of far - fetched stunts.

But as various genetically altered animals grow and grow and become more and more angry, the movie gradually becomes shameless, until itâ $ ™ s a full - on modern - day monster movie, with lots of far - fetched stunts.

Joyce litigated some of the Animal Legal Defense Fund's earliest cases, including a 1981 lawsuit that halted the U.S. Navy's plan to kill 5,000 feral burros, and a 1988 challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's rule allowing the patenting of genetically altered animals.

Not exact matches

Because Zika typically has trouble establishing infections in mice, the researchers used animals that were genetically altered so that they could not produce interferon, a key immune system signaling molecule, thus dampening the animals» immune response to the virus.

Only when researchers injected mice that had been genetically altered to have a deficient innate immune response did the animals develop detectible disease.

Numerous experiments with genetically altered mice and rats have shown that when natural brain compounds, called endocannabinoids, are missing or their receptors are blocked, the animals are more susceptible to pain, can not control their appetites, have trouble handling anxiety and are less able to cope with stress.

Sure, but most genetically modified plants and animals have only one or two altered genes.

Examples of funding areas include but are not limited to molecular genetic analysis of relevant neural circuit assembly and function; genetic and epigenetic research; animal models created by genetically altering neural circuits; and testing of new chemical entities that might be used in animal models as exploratory treatments.

42.4 % of animals were genetically altered, compared with 63.6 % which were not.

The animals were genetically altered to prevent human rejection of transplanted pig organs.

The panel of scientists concludes that it's too early to release genetically altered organisms such as insects, plants and animals into the environment.

Since most CAFOs feed animals genetically engineered (GE) grains (primarily corn and soy), there's also the issue of whether or not such feed might alter such meats in ways we still don't fully understand.