Sentences with phrase «in animal organs»

Found in many fruits and vegetables and in some animal organs, vitamin C is a delicate nutrient that is destroyed by heat.

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It has already invested in some companies that graduated from the Labs incubator, including Modern Meadow, a New Jersey — based startup that's biofabricating leather without the need for animals, and 3Scan, a company that enables 3D analysis of tumors and organs.

If I increase cortisol in animals by exposing them to chronic stressors they die earlier due to organ deficits.

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[13] This said, in animals lower than humans it is morally permissible to thwart the purposes of bodily organs, so that the Church fully permits the sterilisation of animals (if it doesn't cause unreasonable cruelty to them or damage to the material environment).

It's the organ of ingestion: what we eat with, drink and breathe with, what's needy in us, what is animal.

However, the lowliest worms have sense organs, nerve cells and nerve centers, and these cells function more or less in the same manner as those of higher animals.

But, he says: «The emergence of consciousness in the animal kingdom is perhaps as great a mystery as the origin of life itself» He will, however, agree that there can be little doubt that consciousness in animals has some function and can be looked at as if it were a bodily organ.

The process of synthesis by which azoic elements have reached their present multiplicity and complexity is an evolution, the same process entirely as the biologist traces in the order of living things, and the synthetic chemical compound embodies in itself a complex relativity capable of being expressed in most exact laws, which reflect the evolutionary emergence of its substance as much as do the organs of an animal explained in terms of evolutionary development.

When considering the protein source, for example, one must not only consider whether an animal - or plant - based protein will be used, but the specific organism from which it is derived (e.g., animal: chicken, beef, lamb, pork, etc.; fish: salmon, menhaden, etc.; plant: corn gluten meal, soybean meal, etc.), what part (s) of that organism will be included (e.g., plant: whole wheat vs. wheat germ vs. wheat bran; animal: entire animal vs. skeletal muscle vs. organ meats), and the form in which it will be added (animals: frozen, fresh, meal), all of which affect the diet in terms of cost, nutrient composition and stability, manufacturing requirements, and ingredient handling, transport, and storage.

Then in 1961 Stanley Jacob, a University of Oregon Health Sciences Center surgeon looking for a way to supercool animal organs for transplant experiments, learned of DMSO from Robert Herschler, a chemist employed by the Crown Zellerbach paper company.

Based on animal models, including a primate model, it is hypothesized that the cells remain unharmed in the digestive tract of the infant then enter the bloodstream, migrate to different organs, and there provide active immunity.54

Studies in experimental animals have linked high doses of food dyes to health problems, among them organ damage, cancer, birth defects, and allergic reactions.

Their forked tongues pick up scent molecules that the animal transfers, via specialized ducts in the mouth, to the Jacobson's organ, which can detect where the scent's source is located.

So far those efforts have ended in failure, usually with the person's immune system rejecting the transplanted animal organ.

The precise orientation of our internal organs - and those of all other animals with a backbone - is controlled in part by proteins that are produced on only one side of an embryo

Last year, the National Toxicology Program concluded that the chromium compound caused intestinal cancers, which are relatively rare in animals, as well as mouth cancers, and that it infiltrated the cells of many organs.

«If ctenophores diverged first, these organ systems likely have been present in the common ancestor of all animals — and sponges and placozoans must subsequently have lost them — or complex traits like nerve cells and muscles must have emerged independently several times in different lineages,» Wörheide explains.

A gland is an organ in an animal's body that synthesizes a substance for release such as hormones, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).

If paleontologists encounter vascular channels in dinosaur fossils, they might also find nematodes, or roundworms, that lived off the animals» internal organs.

Sensory experience in young animals is instrumental in this phenomenon, and the sensory organs are the source of this developmental signal.

In 1885 German biologist Paul Ehrlich (best known for curing syphilis) discovered that if he injected a dye into the abdomen of animals, he could color all their organs — all except the brain.

«Especially when the structure for making them, this spermaceti organ, is full of wax that is actually toxic to the animal and has to be sequestered in the cask and is so big it makes it pretty hard for the animal to maneuver.

Comprising just 30 letters of genetic code, piRNA are only found within cells in the reproductive organs of animals, where ensuring the stability and integrity of DNA is of particularly vital importance.

These chips are important for eliminating many early problematic amalgams, but animal tests are still needed to see how a drug is broken down by multiple organs in the body — the liver and gut, in particular — and how the broken - down metabolites circulate to other organs, the 29 - year - old San Jose, Calif., native says.

The finding, reported in next month's issue of Nature Medicine, raises new questions about whether people could contract exotic diseases if animal organs become routinely transplanted into human patients.

Animals have incredible variation in their body shapes and ways of life, including the plant - like, immobile marine sponges that lack heads, eyes, limbs and complex organs, parasitic worms that live inside other organisms (e.g. nematodes, platyhelminths), and phyla with eyes, skeletons, limbs and complex organs that dominate the land in terms of species numbers (arthropods) and body size (chordates).

The gastrointestinal tract or digestive tract, also referred to as the GI tract or the alimentary canal or the gut, is the system of organs within multicellular animals which takes in food, digests it to extract energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste.

Most animals, including humans, have two copies of their genome — the full set of instructions needed to make every cell, tissue, and organ in the body.

Hales made similar measurements of blood pressure in domestic animals, and by injecting chemicals, estimated blood - flow rates in organs.

While human - animal chimera work is still in its infancy (and faces ethical and funding hurdles, see sidebar), hybrids of rats and mice are already hinting that growing an organ from

Biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists have begun cooperating on a sophisticated «systems biology» aimed at understanding how the countless molecular interactions at the heart of life fit together in the workings of cells, organs, and whole animals.

Hybrid, or chimeric, animals may eventually grow human organs to be used in transplants.

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In addition, D4 causes tumors, reproductive problems, altered organ size and acts like a weak estrogen in studies of lab animalIn addition, D4 causes tumors, reproductive problems, altered organ size and acts like a weak estrogen in studies of lab animalin studies of lab animals.

What we see is a film laid down by the bacterial decomposition of different pigments in the scales, skin, feathers, and internal organs of the animal.

For the first time, researchers have investigated the cheetah's extraordinary sensory abilities by analyzing the speedy animal's inner ear, an organ that is essential for maintaining body balance and adapting head posture during movement in most vertebrates.

But scientists working on a way to repair the vital organ have now engineered tissue that closely mimics natural heart muscle that beats, not only in a lab dish but also when implanted into animals.

The team did that by stressing the animals» hearts in a way that mimics atherosclerosis and by blocking thyroid signaling, which also puts pressure on the organ.

Since so little is known about how Zika virus behaves once inside the body, researchers also searched for evidence of viral infection in the animals» organs.

In your editorial you ask whether society would accept the use of «humanised» animal organs for transplant surgery (20 April,...

Sheldrake contends that the shapes cells assume and the forms of tissues, organs, and the whole animal — in other words, morphogenesis itself — are not explained by protein synthesis alone.

In your editorial you ask whether society would accept the use of «humanised» animal organs for transplant surgery (20 April, p 3).

protected animals»); studies on in vitro systems (whole perfused organs, tissue slices, cell and tissue cultures, and subcellular fractions); and human studies (including estimations of occupational and environmental exposure, postmarketing surveillance, epidemiology, and the ethical and strictly controlled use of human volunteers).

«If human organs on chips can be shown to be robust and consistently recapitulate complex human organ physiology and disease phenotypes in unrelated laboratories around the world, as suggested by early proof - of - concept studies, then we will see them progressively replace one animal model at a time.

The animals have a turtle - specific herpesvirus that causes fibropapillomatosis — a condition in which disfiguring tumours grow on the eyes, flippers, tail, shell or internal organs.

Researchers studying whales, snakes, and other animals are finding that female sex organs have some of the same baroque complexity seen in males.

Currently, the group is trying to discover chemical forms of stabilizing haploidy in animal cells and is exploring strategies that would allow the creation of organs or even animals that only have a maternal set of chromosomes.

«If we can expand the role of RNAi to other organ systems beyond the liver, the likelihood that RNAi could overtake antibodies in terms of importance for diseases of man, animals, and even plants, is certainly there,» said Dr. Geert Cauwenbergh, president and CEO of RXi Pharmaceuticals.

«Although sex - role reversal has been identified in several different animals, Neotrogla is the only example in which the intromittent organ is also reversed,» says Kazunori Yoshizawa from Hokkaido University in Japan.