By 2009, Edgerton's work had shown enough promise for the FDA to approve his and Harkema's request to do a set of
human experiments with the electrode device.
At the beginning of
human experiments with agriculture, the effects of changing the patterns of nomadic traditions and thus altering the landscape to suit the farmer's specific purpose were negligible for small communities.
Later, as a student at Harvard Medical School, he helped conduct some of the first controlled
human experiments with marijuana.
Not exact matches
She was a Microsoft - designed
experiment in artificial intelligence that would develop an increasingly
human - like persona by engaging
with Millennials online.
You can see the ethical dilemma in a basic - income
experiment: You're toying
with people's financial health, and, by judging your endpoints based on feelings, you're tinkering
with and assessing
human behavior.
The theory behind it is simple: If Facebook has
experimented on its users to find new and exciting ways to get us to use it in the way they'd prefer, we should also feel free to
experiment on Facebook, and see if those
experiments change how we think about what we share
with one of the biggest repositories of
human data in history.
If you're a
human, then you probably like coffee, but Alaethea doesn't just like coffee... just loves coffee, to the point that she researches it,
experiments with different home - brewing mechanisms, and knows all the best coffee shops in all the best cities.
These gifts combined
with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the
experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the
human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.
As I stated in my original article, prior to conducting
experiments with human cells, ANT - OAR techniques would need to be rigorously tested in animal models to establish a procedure that guarantees
with reasonable certainty that an embryo is not generated.
Due to the limited statistical and methodological certainty allowed by biological science, the occurrence of technical errors in biological
experiments, the differences between
human and animal embryo development, the rapidity by which the cloning procedure produces a totipotent zygote, and the philosophical and theological nature of the question, there is no biological
experiment that will prove
with moral certainty that a
human zygote never exists during the OAR procedure.
Philosophy is great when dealing
with abstract,
human concepts (beacuse it's process is based around the
human as the standard) but without some way to test philosophical treaties, you are just doing thought
experiments which may or may not have any bearing on events in the «real» world.
And so he
experiments with Islamic culture, turns it inside out and upside down, flirts
with it, chucks it aside, and performs endless dissections and experimentations to see whether truth can withstand the cut and thrust of
human manipulation.
Persons whose symbolic universes emphasized the role of supernatural forces tended not to believe that society could be reformed through
human action and refrained from
experimenting personally
with alternative lifestyles.
Hundreds of educators, clergymen, and counselors are already
experimenting with growth - oriented groups, and many others are eager to find group approaches for releasing
human potential.
Some philosophers and scientists have claimed that empirical science could only develop where there was nothing sacred about the earth, leaving
humans free to
experiment with it.
-- Even though it's only a week and a half old, in this
experiment, those who are deeply religious and claim to be «Good people of God» who should love all their fellow
humans have removed the income from this man's life
with complete disregard for the well - being of his family members as well.
Your own church could easily
experiment with films as a way of opening the
human issues in religion to full understanding and care in the community.
This is done routinely in
experiments with animals and occasionally
with human patients undergoing neurological treatment.
Religious liberals, who claim to find God in
human experience, should view as significant the two centuries of this American
experiment with religious openness.
Animal Research: For nearly four decades, the animal liberation movement has been at war
with medical research conducted on animals — even though conducting such
experiments before trying new drugs or procedures on people is a crucial
human rights protection established in the Nuremberg Code.
Unless survival can be
with dignity and decency, unless there can be some prospect of a good life in a good society, perhaps it is better that the whole
human experiment end soon.
Those who feel there is something «unnatural» about introducing
human genes into animals or plants forget that we share a high proportion of our genes
with these species already: it is precisely this collective heritage that allows
experiments on frogs to spawn treatments for
human cancer.
In order to determine the lethal toxic level of capsaicinoids in animals, and to extrapolate that level for
humans, researchers in 1980 performed a rather gruesome
experiment with mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits.
The researchers
experimented with inducing oxidative stress in a
human cell line culture
with and without VCOP (virgin coconut oil polyphenols) to observe how VCOP positively promoted catalase, a very important enzyme in protecting the cell from oxidative damage, and glutathione (GSH), a self - recycling antioxidant produced by the liver.
Play is a timeless feature of
human societies, and when combined
with 21st century learning it provides children and adults
with opportunities to
experiment with their surroundings.
There is something wrong
with a scientific approach that thinks it has to be proven
with randomized
experiments that a paltry
human - made substance doesn't match up
with the elixir of
human breast milk (thousands of ingredients in the right proportions for that particular baby to build the brain, body, immune system).
Since our readers are looking for
experiments to try
with their 5 - 12 year olds, we feel that making a parallel comparison of «breathing» or respiration for plants and
humans helps children to better understand the process of photosynthesis at a younger age.
A doctor described as the resident physician to the twisted upstate sex cult Nxivm has been charged by a state oversight board
with illegally conducting
human experiments.
A physician who allegedly conducted
human brain - activity
experiments on people associated
with the NXIVM corporation has apparently not published a scientific study in years and there is no indication his private research was being overseen by an independent review board, according to a medical expert and records of the NIH and U.S. National Library of Medicine.
With vast differences in the physiology of different species and poorly conducted
experiments, it comes as no surprise that 92 % of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests prove to be ineffective or even dangerous to
humans.
They also carried out controlled
experiments with new bath toys, under conditions simulating household use: over a period of 11 weeks, some of the toys were exposed to clean and others to dirty bath water (including constituents such as soap,
human body fluids and bacteria).
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Shukla and colleagues discovered that a small drug molecule called BX795, which is sold to labs for use in
experiments, helped clear HSV - 1 infection in cultured
human corneal cells, in donated
human corneas, and in the corneas of mice infected
with HSV - 1.
More
experiments with the rats showed that OEA activates the same areas of the brain that mediate the formation of emotionally charged memories in
humans, which are more vivid than typical memories.
To get a sense of what happens when soldiers are wounded, the students first conducted
experiments with a gel that mimics the consistency of
human tissue.
It's a kind of checklist of the testing conditions and
experiments necessary to proceed
with preclinical and
human trials.
The
experiments highlighted an area of the brain known as the «nucleus accumbens», which has been long - associated
with motivation, reward and depression — in
humans too.
Scientists have long
experimented with organs - on - chips: tiny representations of
human organs, such as lungs, hearts and intestines, made from cells embedded on plastic about the size of a computer memory stick.
The
experiments also revealed something else: pupil dilation in
humans is not altered by viewing images of chimps
with either dilating or constricting pupils, and vice versa.
16 Waiting to exhale: In 1907 a Massachusetts doctor conducted an
experiment with a specially designed deathbed and reported that the
human body lost 21 grams upon dying.
On a test of children's willingness to share any of 10 stickers
with a child described as unable to participate in the
experiment, listeners to the tale
with human characters forked over an average of nearly three stickers, about one more than the kids had donated before the
experiment.
Dobson's team has
experimented with roughly a dozen common proteins
with a variety of structures and functions found in
humans, plants, or yeast.
When I ask Carter about the difficulty of designing
experiments with human subjects, she laughs.
The complexity of the
human brain — and the ethical problems of
experimenting with humans — may mean that the scientific understanding of attachment will not proceed quickly.
Although the Harvard criteria were based on zero patients and no
experiments were conducted either
with humans or animals, they soon became the standard for declaring people dead in several states, and in 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) was sanctioned by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
Humans are caught up in a grand planetary
experiment of lowering the ocean's pH,
with a potentially devastating toll on marine life.
In one
experiment with human cells, a guide RNA should have led the Cas9 enzyme only to a gene on chromosome 2 (yellow bar), but it also directed the enzyme to many off - target sites (red) on several other chromosomes.
Chen agrees: He said his
experiment «carries much less risk of creating animals
with greater «brain power» than normal» because the
human organoid goes into «a specific region of already developed brain.»
In
experiments with human subjects, Kepecs and colleagues therefore tried to control for different factors that can vary from person to person.
The researchers plan to repeat the
experiments with human malaria, a more challenging prospect.