Sentences with phrase «human guinea»

When I went back to the plastic surgeon to get my stitches out, he offered to make me his human guinea pig and provide lots more free botox, plus some fillers thrown in.

And we (the students, drivers and their families) are their human guinea pigs.

Skip the Starbucks, or become a human guinea pig by participating in clinical trials for cash as ways to generate extra income.

Or a human guinea pig.

New lawsuits allege that GSK was «using expectant mothers and their unborn children as human guinea pigs» to test Zofran.

Beyond the obvious claim that the mask did not serve its purpose of protecting him, Hickox also claimed that Wilson failed to properly test the masks and essentially used umpires and catchers as «human guinea pigs.»

«Tuesday's Three Burning Legal Questions Main «Human Guinea Pig» Gets Payback as Jury Awards MLB Umpire $ 775K for Defective Mask»

The Skin I Live In revolves around Ledgard's attempt to construct a new type of human skin using the beautiful Vera (Elena Anaya) as a human guinea pig.

So you're an overachieving 26 year old IT office drone named Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) and you receive news that you've been promoted, at least temporarily, to human guinea pig.

Inducted into a top - secret program as a human guinea pig, Steve is injected with the unproven liquid before Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) blasts him with a dose of «Vita - Rays».

At home, Will, unwilling to give up on his pharmaceutical study, attempts to revise the drug's molecular makeup and uses his ailing father as a human guinea pig.

I'm absolutely not a «cool girl,» and I think that's why you come here — to read the musings and ramblings of a regular person / human guinea pig who just really likes all this stuff.

Being a self proclaimed human guinea pig, I do intend to try Rosedale's plan after Christmas and see what the differences are in my biofeedback and training intensity (once I get through the first few weeks of lower energy due to changing substrates, anyway!)

Basically, I became a human guinea pig... for sex.

Tim Ferriss is the author of the best selling book The 4 Hour Body and a self - proclaimed human guinea pig.

Instead of waiting for her thyroid to burn out and be on medication the rest of her life, she decided to take her health back through becoming her own human guinea pig!

Newsweek calls him «the world's best human guinea pig».

Undaunted by the problems that bedevilled their predecessors, a second batch of human guinea pigs entered Biosphere 2 last week.

One such «human guinea pig,» Michael Snyder, is now a colleague at Stanford.

Apart from sharing breathtaking photos and serving as a human guinea pig, Kelly had a hand in many of the 400 science studies that were taking place on the ISS.

That's because demonstrating pharmacological causation in psychoactive substances is almost impossible, unless you're going to get a human guinea pig to take it.

A Basically, I take a topic and dive right in and turn myself into a human guinea pig.

Not exact matches

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.

Humans have also acted as guinea pigs with oleoresin capsicum, which is the concentrated heat ingredient in super-hot sauces with names using words like «insanity,» «death,» and «suicide.»

Humans have also acted as guinea pigs with oleoresin capsicum.

Secondly, it would be impossible to design a test with controlled results due to the fact that doctors can not morally use a human baby as a guinea pig.

We salute the election to the leadership of our Union of the Guinean President, His Excellency Alpha Condé, a renowned fighter for democracy and human rights in his native Guinea.

Only humans are infected by guinea worm, and the larvae die within months if no one swallows the water fleas carrying them.

The consumption of bushmeat in Guinea may possibly serve as the transmission point from wildlife to human populations for the disease.

Most animals can synthesize their own vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, in their livers, but humans are among the exceptions, along with other primates and oddballs like guinea pigs and bats.

So Palese's team exposed hundreds of guinea pigs to a human flu strain at different temperatures and humidities, in cages that allowed only air to pass from sick animals to well ones.

There are moments of pure nature - channel gore, such as when McAuliffe delineates the life cycle of a guinea worm, a parasite that migrates from a human's intestinal muscle through the tissues of the body all the way to the lower limbs or sole of the foot where it — no, that's enough.

They found that the Neanderthal genome shows more similarity with non-African modern humans throughout Europe and Asia than with African modern humans, suggesting that the gene flow between us and Neanderthals most likely occurred outside Africa as humans were en route to Europe, Asia, and New Guinea.

To reach this conclusion, Pääbo and his team spent years sequencing the complete genome of three Neanderthal bones from the Vindija Cave in Croatia and compared the results with the genomes of five modern humans from southern Africa, West Africa, Papua New Guinea, China, and Western Europe.

But those fragments were enough to determine that humans living in New Guinea today carry nearly 5 percent Denisovan DNA.

Mark Stoneking of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, found Denisovan DNA in modern humans living in east Indonesia, Polynesia, Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Human «organs on chips» could be linked to make the ideal guinea pig, revolutionising the way drugs are tested and cancer is treated

«It's nice to see where humans fall in relation to other species,» says Polly Wiessner, an anthropologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City who studies violence and peacemaking in Papua New Guinea.

Today humans, chimps, cows, dogs, honeybees, yeast, rice, and bacteria have been sequenced — and elephants, orangutans, hedgehogs, guinea pigs, and kangaroos will soon join the list.

In fact, the disease bears much the same genetics from Liberia to Guinea, suggesting a single jump from some animal to a human that happened in eastern Guinea.

Nevertheless, the need for historical language comparison is still vital: «In large parts of the world, like in New Guinea or South America, both the languages and the history of the human populations speaking them still remain crudely understudied,» says List.

And it still remains unclear where the virus came from when it made the leap into humans last December in the forests of eastern Guinea.

One study argues that an earlier wave of modern humans contributed traces to the genomes of living people from Papua New Guinea.

The scientists implanted tiny glass electrodes in a guinea pig's cochlea, which is similar to a human's.

Analyzing 379 new genomes from 125 populations worldwide, the group concludes that at least 2 % of the genomes of people from Papua New Guinea comes from an early dispersal of modern humans, who left Africa perhaps 120,000 years ago.

He also predicted Guinea worm disease would be stamped from human populations within two years, making it the second disease humankind has eliminated — the first being smallpox, which met its demise during Carter's presidency.

«This is the strongest message from inside the organization illustrating the troubles, in particular irregularities around the money,» says Joseph Kraus of EG Justice, a human rights group focusing on Equatorial Guinea.

The prize is named after Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, long - time dictator of Equatorial Guinea, but its implementation was put on hold in 2010 following complaints from human rights and science groups.

Guinea worm, one of humanity's most painful and gruesome parasites, is on track to be eradicated — the first human infection to be wiped out since smallpox in 1980 (see «Parasite lost: Exterminating Africa's horror worms»).

The former president has helped lead the global effort to fight Dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease, through his work with the Carter Center, a foundation he and his wife, Rosalind, established for fighting disease and promoting human rights.