Sentences with phrase «human tests carried»

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It is customary and even ethically mandatory that experimentation that carries with it a substantial degree of risk to human subjects first be tested in an animal laboratory or, at the very least, on a computer model.

In particular, glycaemic index testing is carried out by the determination of glycaemic (blood glucose) responses in human volunteers (in — vivo testing).

Although there's no definitive evidence resulting from tests carried out on humans that BPA is dangerous, it's advisable to choose BPA free bottles.

Precisely as we humans, every dog is likely to carry genetic predisposition for some inherited disorder, so we expect these numbers to grow as the numbers of tested disease variants, breeds, and dogs further increase, confirms Dr. Donner.

Liver cells carry out hundreds of different functions, only some of which Lagasse has tested in mice, and it is unlikely that transplanted cells could fulfill all of them in humans.

Chan and colleagues are testing whether humans carry similar signs of stress in these RNA - loaded vesicles by studying college students» semen samples.

The lack of discrimination in the viruses used to carry therapeutic genes has been a major obstacle to testing gene therapy in humans.

An initial library of 15 biodegradable particle formulations was tested for their ability to carry siRNAs into human glioblastoma cells that were genetically engineered to make green fluorescent protein (GFP).

And for three of the eight people tested to be carrying the prion shows that spread among humans, in blood, is much more efficient than spread from cattle to humans via meat.

When her team tested fecal samples taken in the 1970s, they found that less than 25 percent of human - based Bacteroides carried tetQ.

The results of a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) study carried out by the first NHS laboratory to provide NIPT testing will be reported to the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics.

Dr. Erlich joined Cetus Corporation and served as director of the department of human genetics where he pioneered the development and application of PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and carried out the first forensic DNA test in the United States in 1986.

To test their hypothesis, the researchers carried out experiments on human melanoma cells, a line of cancer cells they chose for their ability to grow easily and quickly.

They then carried out additional experiments in which N. kraussianus shells were shaken together for many hours at a time and exposed to a diluted vinegar solution meant to mimic human sweat, among other tests, while strung together in various ways.

The kit contains human cells and DNA extracted from them, along with the results of various tests carried out on the samples by a group of molecular biologists.

The tests were carried out with the financial support of the Swiss Albert Heim Foundation in the Dog Studies group of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

For the first time, there will be penalties for trafficking in human organs, acting as an intermediary for surrogate motherhood, which is to be banned, and carrying out gene tests not authorised by a court of law.

Zebrafish provide a similar tumour microenvironment to humans, meaning fewer tests need to be carried out in mice and any future experiments in mice will have been optimised to have minimal toxicity.

If the team gets the tool flight - certified to test it on the ISS, the results could fill a knowledge gap about how much spaceships carrying humans will leak and vent microbes.

Nikolaus Steinbeis of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and his team carried out a series of tests involving 72 children.

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 sHuman 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 shuman sperm from fusing with hamster eggs, a common test for the fertility of sperm.

More recently, scientists have identified parts of the human genome carrying Neandertal genetic variants, but — in part because Neandertal - derived DNA is so hard to identify and also because of the expense of performing tests for its influence on individuals — scientists still don't fully understand how Neandertal - derived variants influence modern human traits.

Further testing confirmed this in human cells, even those carrying the mutated gene responsible for MPNs in patients.

SpaceX Founder and Chief Designer Elon Musk said in an interview this evening that the version of the Dragon spacecraft designed to take humans into space initially will be tested in an automated mode, but the first time it carries people, they will be NASA astronauts.

An international team of scientists, including four from Brown University, conducted and analyzed tests using a «knock - in» mouse carrying a gene for a mutant DNA / RNA binding protein called TDP - 43, which causes a form of inherited ALS in humans.

Successful tests of the nanodrones have been carried out in mice — and researchers hope to conduct the first human trials soon.

7000 compounds were tested on human mesenchymal stem cells carrying Type 1 myotonic dystrophy.

Preclinical testing of experimental drugs, in the test tube or in animals, that occurs before trials in humans may be carried out.

In one study carried out by researchers at the University of Tampa Human Performance Research Lab and Increnovo, researchers measured baseline blood tests on 34 healthy, trained males, including blood markers of inflammation.

When they say a car is good or bad, their opinions carry more clout than the standard human because they've done their homework through countless hours of testing, free drives, and taped segments on the show.

The healthy pets living with humans infected with MRSA have been tested and some found to carry the MRSA which appears to be the same in both the pet and the human.

There are concerns about the impact on the human body: «One study carried out in the US found that 93 percent of Americans over the age of six tested positive for BPA (a [hormone - disrupting] chemical found in plastic).»

On the question of hurricanes, the theoretical arguments that more energy and water vapor in the atmosphere should lead to stronger storms are really sound (after all, storm intensity increases going from pole toward equator), but determining precisely how human influences (so including GHGs [greenhouse gases] and aerosols, and land cover change) should be changing hurricanes in a system where there are natural external (solar and volcanoes) and internal (e.g., ENSO, NAO [El Nino - Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation]-RRB- influences is quite problematic — our climate models are just not good enough yet to carry out the types of sensitivity tests that have been done using limited area hurricane models run for relatively short times.

Public criticism of the German auto industry has escalated on reports that diesel exhaust tests were carried out on both monkeys and humans.

Among those march organizers I interacted with in my decision to eventually not participate in the march, the sole test of whether or not you are a good scientist is whether or not you embrace the «current human caused global warming is carrying us to disaster and we must act now to avoid it».

Testing shows that the carcasses carry porcine circovirus, which thankfully isn't known to be contagious to humans.

The only solution is to use SpaceX and Boeing's test flights as actual flights, in which we carry humans to and from the ISS, rather than as the test flights they were originally designed to be.

The company conducted over 1,000 test flights with human passengers, including a 984 - foot (300 - meter) vertical climb, a weight test carrying over 500 pounds (230 kilograms), a routed test flight covering 9.3 miles (15 kilometers), and a high - speed cruising test that reached 80.7 mph (130 km / h).