Sentences with phrase «hamster owner:p»

A typical corn field is some seven times larger than the home range for a female hamster, so the animals that live in these agricultural areas eat mostly corn — or whatever other crop is growing in that field.

«The idea is not only to protect the hamster,» she says, «but to protect the entire biodiversity and to restore good ecosystems, even in farmland.»

Now, they've demonstrated that a single amino acid — known by its number along the protein chain, 139 — is the key to this prion protein variant adopting a «human - like» versus a «hamster - like» structure, while another amino acid, 112, governs the structural differences between the human and mouse versions of the protein.

Human sperm carry a version of Izumo as well, and it seems to play a similar role: Antibodies to the protein prevent human sperm from fusing with hamster eggs, a common test for the fertility of sperm.

(See an image of Team Frednet's «hamster ball» rover prototype).

A hamster would have done nicely, but the hole into the apparatus was too small, so we ended up with a tiny frog we found in the biology department.

Researchers studying a protein that causes a hereditary degenerative brain disease in humans have discovered that the human, mouse and hamster forms of the protein, which have nearly identical amino acid sequences, exhibit distinct three - dimensional structures at the atomic level.

But how do you know if you really aren't cut out for a career on the academic hamster wheel?

Georgia Tech scientists made piezoelectric generators out of nanowires and attached them to tiny hamster jackets.

Roein - Peikar also noted that their experiments are mainly based on Chinese Ovary Hamster cells, a cell line derived from the ovary of the Chinese hamster, often used in biological and medical research.

So had the crest - tailed mulgara, a hamster - sized marsupial that preys on lizards and insects.

You can learn to live with odd thoughts; there are alternatives to stepping onto the psychiatry «hamster wheel.

To find out, the team engineered baby hamster kidney cells to express the human ACE2 receptor.

The hamster on the left is in the summer breeding condition, whereas the hamster on the right is in the winter non-breeding condition.

The new research reveals how these changes are linked to the hamster's reactions to the ever - changing length of day.

The Siberian hamster makes a good subject for studying seasonal timekeeping.

Xiao is optimistic about the clinical applications but cautions, «Hamster to a human — that's a long way to go!»

With approximately 2.3 billion bases, the magnitude of the genome sequence of the Chinese hamster is comparable to that of the human genome.

The hamster sequence is available in the public domain and can be used for research throughout the world.»

There's a running joke among professional dinosaur artists that goes like this: Given just an elephant skeleton, they'd probably render a titanic hamster.

«In future, the decoded hamster genome will greatly advance the use of cell lines to produce pharmaceuticals», says Noll, who runs the Cell Culture Technology research group at the Faculty of Technology and participated in the research project.

The genome of the Chinese hamster is composed of eleven pairs of chromosomes.

The sequencing of the hamster chromosomes was performed by Dr. Karina Brinkrolf at CeBiTec.

Genome researchers from Bielefeld University's Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) headed by Professor Dr. Alfred Pühler have succeeded in sequencing the genome of the Chinese hamster.

Story 4: Andre Geim, who won the Nobel Prize on Physics on October 5th, is the first laureate that we know of to have co-authored a paper with a hamster.

You included a hamster as co-author on one of your papers and made frogs levitate.

Geim was the corresponding author, as Tisha the hamster probably couldn't find enough time off the wheel to deal with mail.

Geim was the first author, with the second author identified as one H.A.M.S. ter Tisha — and, if you read it straight, it is «hamster Tisha».

Even in this clean and bright room, the smell of so many mice concentrated in one place is overpowering — pungent, and familiar to anyone who has spent time with a pet hamster or gerbil.

He opened the VirtuSphere's hatch, stepped inside and began running full - tilt like a hamster in an exercise wheel.

According to Humphrey's picture, the Siberian hamster subconsciously acts on a cue that it is summer because food supplies to sustain an immune response are plentiful at that time of year.

Drugmakers typically manufacture EPO in genetically modified cultures of Chinese hamster cells.

In this episode of the Savvy Psychologist, Dr. Ellen Hendriksen offers 4 tips to stop the mental hamster wheel

In test - tube experiments with hamster cells, the DNA vaccine created mRNA that both copied itself like it would in the alphavirus and produced antigen.

The cub was the size of a hamster, its pink body covered with sparse white hair.

The new product is made using genetically engineered hamster cells in fermenters, and requires a number of refining stages.

On April 12, 1930, zoologist Israel Aharoni had workers dig up a mother hamster and her 11 babies spied by a farmer in his wheat field near Aleppo, Syria.

At the moment Maria Fadri - Moskwik decided to become a scientist, she was strapped to a human hamster wheel

«How do you ask a hamster if it can see?»

Science as a Verb 18 November 2013 Maria Fadri - Moskwik At the moment Maria Fadri - Moskwik decided to become a scientist, she was strapped to a human hamster wheel.

Although the bulk of the commercial manufacturing uses cultures of bacteria, such as Escherichia coli or Chinese hamster ovary cells, a few biotech companies are trying to produce therapeutic proteins in the milk of transgenic mammals (such as GTC Biotherapeutics, which is using goats; PPL Therapeutics, which is using sheep; and BioProtein Technologies, which is working with rabbits), transgenic chicken eggs (such as Avigenics or Vivalis), or even in transgenic crops (such as ProdiGene or Meristem Therapeutics); but it is early days for these «pharming» methods.

They performed brain surgery on 16 hamster pups, anesthetizing the rodents and severing the optic tract on one side of the brain.

This idea was bolstered by the finding that viral DNA production also took place in cells from another natural LCMV host, the hamster, but not in human, monkey, dog, or cow cells, which are not susceptible to the virus.

You arrive at the lab ready to seize the day, but before you've had the chance to grab an ice bucket or set up a reaction, a labmate asks whether you've seen the video of that tiny hamster eating a tiny burrito.

Remove a mother hamster's entire neocortex and she will seem feeble - minded in a psychologist's maze, but she can still love and raise her pup.

For much of its 30 - year history, the industry has struggled to come up with a steady source of supply, squeezing the maximum out of these large - molecule commodities from cell lines isolated from hamster ovaries and the like.

The capital costs for a drug production facility using hamster cells can amount to $ 400 million to $ 500 million, Cox says, whereas a herd of goats can produce the comparable amount of drug for $ 50 million.

Chinese hamster ovary cells do the job, but getting enough product has been a constant frustration and one reason why biotech drugs today cost so much.

Bartke eyes a golden hamster.

Skop published her work in the 2 July 2004 issue of Science, and her image of Chinese hamster cells caught in the act of division landed on the cover.