Being
a human lab rat for your local psychology program usually pays nicely.
And here is Barletta's take on the «Playtest» episode, in which poor Wyatt Russell learns the downside of being
a human lab rat for the video game industry.
In one scene, to the horror of Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson)-- Nathan's
human lab rat — Kyoko strips and peels off the meshes of skin that disguise her robotic skeleton, each layer pulled back as if to ask, «Am I still real?»
«Basically, anyone who uses these products is
a human lab rat,» says Dr. Arthur Grollman, a professor of pharmacological sciences and medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Click here to see the «before and after» pics of Jeff's
human lab rats (he put 6 guys through the program to test it out before releasing it - the results are impressive!).
Not exact matches
This work turned into his M.B.A. thesis, «InVivo Therapeutics» — and the business plan for a company of the same name, which would move Langer's technology out of the
lab and up the ladder from
rats to primates and ultimately to
humans.
Herd animals, indistinguishable lemmings, behaviorally conditioned
lab rats — distasteful as those words and phrases may be — they describe the vast majority of
human behavior, especially online.
Unlike
lab rats, which are unscrupulously enlisted,
human participation is coerced through financial incentive.
The mice in Suzanne Ilstad's
lab are not quite themselves — there's a little
rat in them, and therein may lie the secret to
human organ transplants.
At a neuroscience meeting, two teams of researchers will report implanting
human brain organoids into the brains of
lab rats and mice, raising the prospect that the organized, functional
human tissue could develop further within a rodent.
Already, the team has successfully tested these particles in
lab rats and in miniature tubes of
human blood.
And among
lab animals,
rats are considered particularly relevant to
human cancer studies because they need the same nutrients and proportion of protein for maximal growth as
humans.
Their
lab animals of choice were mice and
rats, whose physiology is similar to that of
humans.
«We only gave the
rats the vanilla frosting every other day because that mimics
human binge eating habits,» said Britny Hildebrandt, a graduate student in the Klump
lab.
As controls, fibroblasts and secretions from normal
lab rats, mice, and another rodent called the spiny mouse were powerless to stop the
human cancer cells growing.
When transplanted into
rats with hypopituitarism — a disease linked to dwarfism and premature aging in
humans — the
lab - grown pituitary cells promoted normal hormone release.
Brace for another shot across the bow: Opioids like morphine have now been shown to paradoxically cause an increase in chronic pain in
lab rats, findings that could have far - reaching implications for
humans, says a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
Brace for another shot across the bow: Opioids like morphine have now been shown to paradoxically cause an increase in chronic pain in
lab rats, findings that could have far - reaching implications for
humans, says a new study.
The cell cultures in the petri dishes are of
human origin, and in some aspects resemble
human brains more than the brains of
lab animals such as
rats or mice do.
Researchers first observed this pattern more than a hundred years ago in
lab rats, but it has since been demonstrated in chickens, cats and
humans.
The George
lab has made seminal contributions to the field including: discovering a novel population of neurons in the brain of
humans,
rats and mice that are involved in nicotine dependence, identifying neuronal ensembles responsible for nicotine and alcohol addiction, and unveiled the cellular and molecular changes associates with long term use of nicotine, cocaine, methamphetamine and alcohol use on the brain.
To answer basic research questions like these, investigators study bacteria, viruses, fungi, animal cells and
human cells (both healthy and cancerous) grown in the
lab, and tumors in animals, such as mice and
rats.
Tests on
human beta cells in the
lab showed that the hormone had the same effect as in isolated
rat beta cells.
The obstacles along the road from
lab rat to
human patients are many, of course, but the biggest by far is money.
Research has found that tart cherry juice powder can reduce the inflammation in
lab rats» blood vessels by up to 50 %; in
humans, it helps athletes recover faster from intense workouts and decreases post-exertion muscle pain.
Perhaps you've heard the stories about artificial sweeteners causing cancer in
lab rats, but you also heard those studies used doses much greater than a normal
human would ingest.
CB1 antagonists have been shown to decrease nicotine self - administration in rodent models of nicotine dependence.24 While CB1 agonists increase feeding in
rats and
humans, CB1 antagonists have been shown to have the opposite effect, significantly suppressing
rats» food intake regardless of type of diet (standard
lab chow, high fat or high carbohydrate).
It not only can be used to induce colitis in
lab rats but also causes inflammation and gut issues to
humans.
We've known phthalates affect the genital development of
lab rats, but for the first time ever,
human data has been published.
Amid the white walls and slick surfaces of this film, the characters seem more like
lab rats than
human beings.
Believing that
human genes could heal themselves, if given enough time, someone agreed to use the survivors living in the ruins of Chicago as
lab rats, to see if the damage could be repaired.
In The Secret of NIHM,
lab rats also acquire enough intelligence to escape from their
human captors.
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They mention that the study would ONLY involve research done on the effects on
humans (but then throw in studies showing that
lab rats exhibit no long - term adverse effects).
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Despite a continuing argument, Baumrind has been influential in changing the way much research is done and in making sure that subjects are treated less like
lab rats and more like
human beings.