Sentences with phrase «human equivalents first»

But to try the treatment in patients, they will have to identify the mouse proteins» human equivalents first.

Not exact matches

If in the first 10 days of life you have a low nurturing rat mother (the equivalent of the first 6 months of life in a human), the gene never gets turned on and the rat is anxious towards new situations for the rest of its life, unless drugs are administered to alleviate the anxiety.

«It would take another two years of training to get the equivalent of my first degree in Syria,» says Chalati, who is working on ways to use nanotechnology to deliver drugs into the human body more efficiently and with fewer side effects.

It sounds awful at first — a 9 - year old's first clarinet lesson would be the human equivalent.

Sugen, a company in Redwood City, California, first tested the drug in mice suffering from the equivalent of human brain cancer.

(If a baboon makes it to its first birthday, the equivalent of a human child turning five, it has a good chance of surviving to adulthood and breeding, the scientists note.)

To test the hypothesis, Frankland and his team first compared the stability of memories in adult mice versus 17 - day - old mice, which are equivalent to human babies less than a year old.

The study, conducted in mice, found that exposure to air pollution during the equivalent of the first or second trimester in humans was linked to more negative birth outcomes than exposure later in pregnancy.

Iron deficiency in the first four weeks of a piglet's life — equivalent to roughly four months in a human infant — impairs the development of key brain structures, scientists report.

The significant difference in outcome achieved by transplantation of hGDAsBMP versus hGDAsCNTF demonstrates clearly that not all astrocytes are equivalent in respect to their therapeutic value, and this appears to be the first study demonstrating functional differences between different human astrocyte populations with respect to repairing the adult central nervous system.

What would happen if the world's first artificially intelligent robot had to learn everything from the equivalent of human infancy and be thought every life lesson possible by straight - up South African gangsters?

The program offers intensive courses in human embryology, cell biology, human gross anatomy, and medical neuroscience, all of which are equivalent to first - year medical school courses.

Therefore, that first year is equivalent to about 15 human years.

Declawing is a cruel and painful procedure that involves amputating the last bone on each of a cat's toes — the equivalent of cutting off a human's finger to the first knuckle.

The declawing operation itself is the human equivalent of removing the first joint of all your fingers.