Sentences with phrase «involve animal experiments»

The researchers now also see opportunities opening up for replacing pharmaceutical tests which currently involve animal experiments.

Not exact matches

Partly because I wanted to experiment with «lessmeatarianism» — a way of eating that involved fewer animal products.

When the researchers presented plans for their study to tribe members who were trained research assistants, the assistants protested that the experiment — which involved watching children play with toy animals — was not culturally appropriate.

We have experiments involving animal welfare and food safety.

Regulators could ban experiments involving animals, like this white rat, at Indian universities, under a proposed animal welfare law.

► The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has put funding on hold for experiments that involve «mixing human stem cells into very early animal embryos and letting them develop» while it «reconsiders its rules» for this type of research, Gretchen Vogel reported Wednesday.

Thanks to experiments on animals and the advent of human brain imaging, scientists now have a working knowledge of the various kinds of memory as well as which parts of the brain are involved in each.

The latest research, published in the academic journal Animal Cognition, involved 12 bearded dragons which had not previously been involved in cognition experiments.

«Gall and Damsky's experiment helps us understand how human - caused noise can interfere with the transfer of information among animals in social groups,» according Florida Atlantic University's Rindy Anderson, an expert in vocal communication in birds who was not involved with the study.

Based on maze studies involving animals, the typical subjects for this type of experiment, Gagliano and colleagues expected the peas to grow randomly, which is the standard research assumption — for animals.

In 2010 the late biologist Roland C. Anderson and his colleagues at the Seattle Aquarium tested recognition in giant Pacific octopuses in an experiment that involved a «nice» keeper who regularly fed eight animals and a «mean» keeper who touched them with a bristly stick.

One of the main goals of animal behavior research, she says, is to operationally define behaviors so that another scientist not involved with the research could read the definitions and use them to replicate the experiment and quantify the movements and actions of the animals.

Acknowledging this reality, a report issued today by the British Academy of Medical Sciences recommends that the U.K. government establish an expert commission to help regulate certain types of experiments involving «animals containing human material.»

Thiele's experiments involve restricting liquid intake by the animals before experiments, which is the aspect that BUAV objects to, in order to reward them for performing tasks with a fruit drink.

Their experiments provide clues about the neural circuits and signaling pathways involved in compulsive behavior and may provide a useful animal model for studying OCD and evaluating treatments.

The experiments have been carried out using Xenopus laevis oocytes, an animal model used by the laboratory to study fundamental processes involved in gene regulation.

All experiments involving mice were judged and approved by the national committee for genetic identification of organisms and the animal ethical committee, and were conducted according to national and international guidelines.

The facility, personnel involved and experiments with animals at CNB - CSIC comply with the legislation on experimentation with animals and work with genetically modified organisms at the European Level (Directive 86 / 609 / CEE, 98 / 81 / CEE, 2003 / 65 / CE) and at National Level (Spanish Law 9/2003, April 25th, Real Decreto 178/2004, January 30th; and Real Decreto 1201/2005; October 10th).

• People involved in organizing and performing animal experiment must meet requirements concerning their expertise.

All experiments involving animals were conducted under the protocol approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of Shihezi University and Utah State University.

These studies involve measurements of sounds the animals make and natural background noise, as well as sound playback experiments.

De Silva says he still uses traditional CROs for some standardized experiments, including those involving animals, which Transcriptic's robots can't handle.

Experiments involving people and animals show that «small amounts of an alcoholic beverage, especially wine, are associated with less atherosclerosis [clogged arteries] and coronary heart disease — even in rats, mice, and pigeons,» he said.

Don't take the words «research» and «study» without a grain of salt: It's often hard to draw «news you can use» from certain experiments — for example, those that aren't peer - reviewed or published in a credible journal, those that are performed on animals, or those that are purely observational — which means that other factors could be involved in the outcome.

In a study published in the journal Psychopharmacology in 2005, for instance, an experiment involving sleep - disturbed rats demonstrated that treatment with kava helped shorten the time it took for animals to fall asleep.

«Evidence further suggests that certain lifestyles, such as one involving a high - energy diet, may increase IGF - I levels, a finding that is supported by animal experiments indicating that IGFs may abolish the inhibitory effect of energy restriction on cancer growth.»

Much of the research to date has been promising, Smoliga says, but most studies — like those led by Das — involve only laboratory experiments and animal trials.

That early misunderstanding gives rise to several intricately nestled intrigues involving a purloined spellbook, a sudden kidnapping and some sinister experiments involving caged animals.

After a rogue experiment involving genetic tampering turns George and other gorillas and animals around the world into rampaging monsters, Davis and his team along with a discredited geneticist must find a way to discover a cure and stop the destruction and death.

They procreate with genetic experiments — splicing DNA from a dozen animals into a lab - created life - form they hope to harvest for pharmaceutical properties — and their masterpiece is a pirate side - project involving human DNA spliced into their zoological genetic cocktail.

Through experiments, ongoing observation, tasting, and planting, students develop an understanding of, appreciation for, and curiosity about the processes and cycles involved in the plants and animals making their home in the soil right outside their door.

Genetic experiments involving humans, animals and plant life?

Many large petfood companies are now subsidiaries of even larger chemical or pharmaceutical corporations that are heavily involved in animal experiments.

Humane Canada believes that experiments and activities involving live animals should be limited to observations of the normal living patterns, behaviour, growth, and development of domestic animals, or wild animals in the free living state or in those zoos or aquaria which maintain animals in suitable naturalistic environments which meet the health, emotional and behavioural needs of each species of animal.

Experiments were done with DNA samples that were on file and no live animals were directly involved.

For several decades, he has performed numerous animal and human experiments to understand the processes involved in memory consolidation.