Sentences with phrase «lab rats»

Another study in lab rats found that an injection with the vitamin reduced inflammation related to arthritis (22).

In studies of lab rats, those fed eggplant showed a decrease in cholesterol and improved blood pressure.

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

Amid the white walls and slick surfaces of this film, the characters seem more like lab rats than human beings.

It turns out that people aren't all that different from lab rats when it comes to other people's expectations about us.

But a study on lab rats who got hooked on alcohol and were then put through detox, showed that one particular protein was responsible for the retention and revival of these memories.

Mind you, studies have been shown that high levels of fructose make lab rats fat.

Veteran lab rats consider it their biggest breakthrough since the laser - jet printer.

It's as if they expect us to be like little lab rats constantly running around the financial maze looking for new crumbs of cheese.

Their setup resembles clinical trials, such as one where doctors test a drug by comparing lab rats that get the drug with those that don't.

Researchers have seen such hormonal influence in other animals, including lab rats and cows.

Lab rats started dying after only a few days of being kept awake.

They claim that sugar can be eight times as addictive as cocaine and cite studies where lab rats chose sugar water over cocaine.

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.

But lab rats only live two or three years.

The «bright» mice performed two times better than the «dull» mice, even though they were all just average lab rats, randomly assigned to the two conditions.

They mention that the study would ONLY involve research done on the effects on humans (but then throw in studies showing that lab rats exhibit no long - term adverse effects).

In several studies they have shown to cause cancer and defects in lab rats.

The lack of gravity in space doesn't seem to affect certain aspects of root growth in the botanical equivalent of lab rats, a new study suggests.

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

Instead, many of my friends became lab rats and spent most of their days sitting inside at a desk working for a graduate student crunching numbers, and never even met the professor who led the lab.

We're not lab rats participating in an experiment.

After leaving school he developed the iOS shooter M.U.S.E. with Lab Rats Studio as lead programmer.

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

The program aimed literally to turn lab rats into school pets.

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.

Part of an action - packed Super Charged Sunday, the season two premiere immediately follows a special one - hour episode of Lab Rats at 6:30 p.m. ET where the gang's bionic powers are revealed to the world.

B.F. Skinner trained lab rats to press a lever and get a food pellet as reward whenever a light came on.

was the first man to show that lab rats which participated in new experiences later excelled in learning tests.

For the 30 or so lab rats working at Eureka, it's another successful idea generated in the idea factory.

A comparable study, she says, may find that lab rats also do not lose hippocampal cells — and thus redeem them as a research tool in studies on the link between alcoholism and memory loss.

Now neurobiologists have shown that lab rats respond in the same way, even after months of abstinence, making those animals a potentially valuable tool for finding ways to help former addicts stay clean.

Petitou treated lab rats with either compound 12 or standard heparin, then tried to induce blood clots.

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

He will get the truth and fix the current system of allowing the drug companies to use our children as free lab rats to test their pricy, poisonous meds on.

Female lab rats become infertile during this length of time.

A volunteer is told that a fellow lab rat (Jim Gaffigan) is sitting on the other side of a wall, his fingers hooked up to the electric shock machine that's under their command.

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).

For instance ~ one student was named Lab Rat and excelled at science but had trouble spelling long words.

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Unlike lab rats, which are unscrupulously enlisted, human participation is coerced through financial incentive.

But lab rats often don't get cancer from suspected food carcinogens unless they are given enormous doses.

But a giant lab rat runs amok, the space station gets smashed, and three gas canisters land on terra firma, turning George, a random wolf and lizard into the city - smashing menaces of their arcade ancestors.

Herd animals, indistinguishable lemmings, behaviorally conditioned lab rats — distasteful as those words and phrases may be — they describe the vast majority of human behavior, especially online.