Sentences with phrase «lab rat»

Trico is probably among the best - realized computer simulations of an animal ever created, and in The Last Guardian's game world, he's a lab rat caught in a maze.

But this «testbed» mentality may be part of the reason why Litecoin users are not so eager to activate the update, which would make them, in a sense, Bitcoin's «lab rat.»

In any case, just because chemo works in some lab rat somewhere doesn't mean you should pick up a cigarette.

For a taste, here's John Rennie, the writer and former editor in chief of Scientific American, describing a nearly - intimate encounter with an aggressive lab rat:

Lights flicker, shelves gather dust and cables twist like snakes — all that's missing from this high - tech workspace are workers, leaving you feeling like a lab rat in a maze

Microsoft are running tests in an effort to improve Xbox Live and are giving you a chance to be a lab rat....

The interface is not unlike funky lab rat, with the player using the cursor to move glowing pink objects; blocks, platforms, obstacles, etc..

«Lab Rat» tells the story of Rat Man, the mysterious wall - scrawler from the original Portal, who may or may not be the «much - rumored yet never seen character» that the comic promises to reveal.

Obviously he's free now and not a lab rat, but even so...

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Munch's Oddysee carries many similar themes and mechanics to Abe's Oddysee, including the planned extinction of a species, rescuing slaves and test subjects, and the ability to take control of your enemies, but expands massively with the option to switch characters at any time, pick up and throw objects, swim in water, and use new GameSpeak to incite slave rebellions, native uprisings and lab rat revolutions.

In Old World Blues, releasing in June, you will discover how some of the Mojave's mutated monsters came to be when you unwittingly become a lab rat in a science experiment gone awry.

See related: What you buy, where you shop may affect your credit, Card issuers watch what you shop for, Am I a lab rat in the credit card industry's psychology experiment?

Thousands of years of selective breeding have turned man's best friend into the ideal lab rat to study the genetic underpinnings of personality

Currently Rachael has three horses; Britton, Dolly, and Shiloh, and one lab rat named Charlie.

Being a human lab rat for your local psychology program usually pays nicely.

Where I, his gangly, absentminded black lab rat was homeschooled in strict accordance with Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

If you town isn't on the list it means that your child is being used as a «lab rat» without your permission.

«I definitely think if there were stories in my classes or things in relation to gender in the curriculum, it would have made my social transition in middle school much easier because the topic would have been known and most questions would have already surfaced instead of me being the lab rat for everyone.»

In an attempt to generate some quick cash and free up some study time, Darryl becomes a lab rat for mad professor Dr. Wheedon (Dourif, utterly insane, as always).

The movie opens with a knockout action sequence, set aboard a space station that's been overtaken by a gargantuan lab rat.

We open on an unknown kid's secretive cell phone video filming of her mother getting ready for bed, followed by the mistreatment of a pet hamster as a lab rat, and finally video of her mother passed out on the sofa — just prior to an ambulance being called.

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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.

Learning to control his anger while seeking a cure for the gamma poisoning that causes him to mutate when his heart rate accelerates, Banner's plans are interrupted when General Thaddeus «Thunderbolt» Ross (William Hurt) sends in a Special Ops unit — led by ex-KGB mercenary Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth)-- to capture him and study like a lab rat.

Writer - director Josh Locy stages their interaction through wooden remarks that emphasize exposition over insight — a problem that recurs throughout the film, especially once Ashley crosses paths with Jeremy (George Sample III), a scrawny twentysomething who makes money as a «lab rat» for a medical science company.

You (the lab rat) are placed in a Skinner box (the movie theater) and subjected to random negative stimuli (filmed violence, as a substitute for painful electrical jolts).

Meanwhile Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi) have trouble with a lab rat experiment, and Pierce (Chevy Chase) helps Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown) with public speaking.

Emily Browning stars as Lucy, a university student who holds down half a dozen jobs to simply pay the rent and survive (jobs include prostitution, waitressing, and some kind of experimental medical lab rat).

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?»

In this sci - fi thriller, based on a novel by Michael Crichton, a scientist decides to be the lab rat in an experimental surgery to control his violent tendencies.

I'll also share some additional little - known reasons to increase protein intake and provide some anecdotal asides from my experience as a coach and lab rat.

(Well, as normal and healthy as any lab rat gets).

I need a nut dispensing machine with a timer and a lock... maybe get a job as a lab rat... live in a cage?

There's not a whole lot of evidence that supports the understanding of apple cider vinegar and lower cholesterol but it has been found apparent in lab rat studies (13 + Health Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar, Reader's Digest).

The book also mentions similar results found a few years earlier in lab rat experiments at U of Valencia in Spain and U of Wisconsin, Madison.

The Director — and «lab rat» of the documentary — Morgan Spurlock admitted that they couldn't find even one person who was able to give a clear definition of a calorie.

They carried on the experiment for two years, roughly a full lifetime for a lucky lab rat, but they stopped the aflatoxin after six months (when the rats were seven months old, and thus mature adults) because the low - protein rats were keeling over dead left and right:

This way I know my body is processing natural foods and not some off - set lab rat pills that do nothing but cause havoc with my normal body functions.

The obstacles along the road from lab rat to human patients are many, of course, but the biggest by far is money.

I looked each video (very well made) and also realize they use broader simpler but still concise enough terminology, that»S really great to increase reach and be more «approachable» because sometimes regular everyday people on the street don't know all or have heard the mumbo jumbo jargon in biogerontology (they will think you are a pompous alien nerd - stuck up who thinks he knows more because he was like a lab rat in his lab books studying aging; on top of that they will more Resentful towards you for Daring to Question their Life beliefs on Life and Death by your» 2 - cents worth knowledge (couldn't give a f...)»

Scientists have successfully concluded an experiment to transplant a bio-engineered esophagus in a lab rat.

Thousands of years of selective breeding have turned man's best friend into the ideal lab rat to study the genetic underpinnings of personality

Although researchers have seemingly cloned the whole barnyard by now, the ubiquitous lab rat has proved remarkably hard to duplicate.

You're probably going to be a lab rat.

To prove that a lab rat such as myself could write, I wrote an article about the NIH postdoctoral experience.

A lab rat's life is not a happy one, but for some it's especially bleak.

In the new study, Dangl and colleagues delved more deeply into this relationship, using mutant versions of Arabidopsis thaliana, a weed that has long been the standard «lab rat» of plant biology research.

Now, developmental endocrinologist Tyrone Hayes and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, have raised tadpoles of the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis — the lab rat of the amphibian world — in water with levels of atrazine varying from 0.01 to 200 parts per billion (ppb).

According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, scientists use this common species as a marine version of a lab rat to research hormones, blood and organs.