Sentences with phrase «lab rat runs»

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In l986 while running a lab at Georgia Tech, Kennedy learned that Canadian scientists were spurring neuron growth in rats» brains by adding bits of sciatic nerve.

Automated technology used by many labs makes it easier to simply track a rat as it runs through a maze — a test of location - based memory — as opposed to studying more - sophisticated forms of memory.

In the lab, they adapted the standard experimental technique for studying place cells: implanting electrodes directly into a rat's hippocampus and recording from them as the animal runs freely in a large box (see «A sense of place»).

Forget about the hundreds of hours that children have already spent prepping or the absurd Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test and forget that instead of informing towns that only 10 % of their students need serve as rat labs for this test, Malloy and Pryor decided that ALL Connecticut public school students should be used a guinea pigs — test subjects for a testing that will run from March through June — all without the approval of their parents.

We've been conditioned to think about «lab rats» dutifully and mindlessly running through mazes in the pursuit of cheese, but we are never told that there are other animals who are also subject to horrific lives in laboratories.

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

I am glad that the healthcare system is not run this way, because it would be largely populated with unqualified wannabes with a pulse due to fail before they have learned much about their profession as they experiment on their patients like newbie lab workers let loose in an anything - goes lab testing rats for disease control... and quitting because most of the rats die before their careers die.