Sentences with phrase «good animal scientist»

Would you make a good animal scientist?

Would you make a good Animal Scientist?

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We expect this leadership to help GFI make better strategic decisions and to be especially useful in their role of connecting scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, and others in the animal - free food world.

The Good Food Institute has a team of scientists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and lobbyists, all of whom are laser - focused on using markets and food technology to transform our food system away from factory farmed animal products and toward clean meat and plant - based alternatives.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

Scientists believe having the hybrid embryos help them to create better animal models.

DARWIN»S TREE CHOPPED DOWN In recent years, scientists have been able to compare the genetic codes of dozens of different single - celled organisms as well as those of plants and animals.

The Good Food Institute has a team of scientists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and lobbyists, all of whom are laser - focused on using markets and food technology to transform our food system away from factory farmed animal products and toward clean meat and plant - based alternatives.

Gestation crates, used throughout Tyson Foods» supply chain, have come under fire by McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Costco, Safeway, Kroger, Oscar Mayer, Jimmy Dean, Sysco and other nearly 50 other leading food companies, as well as from veterinarians, farmers, animal welfare advocates, scientists, consumers and others.

Artificial infant formulas got their start in the early nineteenth century as scientists began to identify the basic building blocks in food - proteins, fats, and carbohydrates - as central to human nutrition, as well as to determine the chemical components of human and animal milks.

That's better for the animals» welfare as well as for study, these scientists say.

Scientists believe that a better understanding of how sperm length influences fertilization success in non-human animals such as the zebra finch may point us in new directions for investigation in human fertility research.

The scientists have seen a lot of the animal they specialize in, and the important traits that separate species have been well - documented for centuries.

Scientists regularly visit Carrie Bow Cay to study coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass meadows, as well as the animals that live in these unique ecosystems.

The scientists are now expanding their research to larger numbers of animals and they are also planning a study to look at addiction - like behaviours in obese people to see how well their results translate to humans.

Many social animals start to feel itchy after watching one of their fellows scratch, and scientists now have a better understanding of why an itch can spread through a group.

Thanks to experiments on animals and the advent of human brain imaging, scientists now have a working knowledge of the various kinds of memory as well as which parts of the brain are involved in each.

A new insight into one of the biggest questions in science — why some animals, including humans, work together to maintain a common good — has been achieved by scientists at the University of Sheffield.

He says that better studies of this unique animal and more reserves in the Yangtze are required, though scientists at his institute have started a captive breeding program.

If scientists are convinced that animal welfare is better not just for animals but also for science, acceptance is much more likely, Franco says.

As populations of sea lions and seals in northern habitats continue to decline, satellites are providing scientists with a better understanding of the animals» feeding patterns.

OSLO (Reuters)- Polar bear DNA has been isolated for the first time from footprints left in the snow on an Arctic island, a breakthrough that could help scientists better protect rare and endangered wild animals, experts said on Tuesday.

As «man's best friend» and closest companion animal, the researchers believe that the latest results may offer a new piece of the puzzle over the reported significant decline in human semen quality — a controversial subject which scientists continue to debate.

Young animals recover from tissue damage better than adults, and from Charles Darwin's time until now, scientists have puzzled over why this is the case.

For years, scientists have been debating the phylogenetic position of brachiopods and molluscs, as well as their affinities for other animals in the same group, the Lophotrochozoa, comprising segmented worms, clams, oysters, snails, squids, and so on.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

From their privileged vantage point, satellites are particularly well - suited to observe habitat transformation and help scientists forecast impacts on the distribution, abundance and migration of animals.

Scientists know a good deal about these animals from the fossil record, but newly published results in Historical Biology, gleaned from a long - forgotten specimen recently discovered in the Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, are recasting both the size and diets of baby ichthyosaurs.

Biological control of pests, weeds, plants and animals gives «the best hope to providing lasting, environmentally sound and socially acceptable pest management,» according to a new book edited by two UF / IFAS scientists.

Research on reviving both species is well underway, and scientists close to the field think de-extinction for these animals is now a matter of «when,» not «if.»

In a study in Nature Ecology & Evolution, scientists used satellites to evaluate how much habitable land area remained for the animals as well as how fragmented the territory was.

Animal scientists have had trouble cloning pigs; techniques used in other livestock didn't work as well.

But either way, the work suggests that chimps could help scientists better understand the disease and how to fight it — if they could get permission to do such studies on these now - endangered animals.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A 2 - day National Academy of Sciences (NAS) workshop here last week exposed just how far scientists, ethicists, and regulators are from agreeing on the best way to move forward with genome editing in animals.

Scientists have understood quite well why so many poisonous animals have brightly colored bodies — the colors send a message to the predators:» don't eat me, or you'll get sick and die.»

Sci - fi fans and animal - rights activists alike have been announcing its arrival for decades, but in a world where food scientists are still trying to figure out the best ways to extend the life of cake, it's hard to imagine that meat created in a petri dish might gain a place on our dinner plates anytime soon.

The research is helping scientists better understand how animals survive under drastic temperature changes, information that's critical in a world being altered by climate change.

The scientists point out that even their meager estimates are probably on the high side, because roads and other humanmade barriers are likely to reduce how well animals can track to their new ranges.

The findings, published in the journal Animal Behaviour, could help scientists better understand how humans evolved socially.

Now scientists have assembled a synthetic abridged form of heparin that, in animals, appears to work better than the real thing.

The scientists found that wolves are considerably better than dogs at opening a container, providing they have previously watched another animal do so.

Following best practices will improve welfare of cattle and provide economic benefits in dairy and beef transportation, according to a new article in The Professional Animal Scientist.

That ability opens the door for sequencing many more genomes at an even faster pace, which is necessary if scientists are going to get better at learning to predict or perhaps even change an animal's characteristics based on their DNA alone.

The scientists» analysis of more than 25,000 bones and 170,000 live animals showed that the distribution of species among the bones corresponded well to the living community, even through periods of rapid ecological change.

And animals with human skin, he says, could help scientists better understand sunburn and its connection to skin cancer.

Though the scientists don't know if such individual and pack behavior is a common occurrence, observations like these on Isle Royale provide insight into how animal societies function as well as the vicissitudes of the food chain cycle on Isle Royale, also helping to inform other models of the natural world.

With mere fragments of DNA, the scientists can reconstruct entire genomes of these animals to better understand how species respond to rapid changes in the environment

PETA may seem well - meaning and benign, but scientists and conservationists who work with animals see its other side and are wary of the organization because it attacks research in order to advance its mission.

A team of Japanese scientists has discovered a new species of polychaete, a type of marine annelid worm, 9 - meters deep underwater near Japan's Syowa Station in Antarctica, providing a good opportunity to study how animals adapt to extreme environments.

But sleep - deprived mice that received shots of rolipram after their training remembered just as well as well - rested animals, the scientists report tomorrow in Nature.