Sentences with phrase «laboratory animal scientists»

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While some still object to cells being taken from animals and used by scientists to grow clean meat in laboratories — and some just don't like the idea of eating a «cultured» steak created by men and women in white coats — others see the lab - grown meat revolution as key to solving the environmental crisis linked to meat eating.

In 1950, American farmers rejoiced at news from a New York laboratory: A team of scientists had discovered that adding antibiotics to livestock feed accelerated animals» growth and cost less than conventional feed supplements.

In a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks, a British court yesterday convicted four people of conspiring to blackmail companies that supply an animal testing laboratory.

«That suggests the problem lies with the immune response of the obese animals rather than the antibodies themselves,» said first author Erik Karlsson, Ph.D., a staff scientist in the Schultz - Cherry laboratory.

An experimental drug that targets abnormally high levels of a protein linked to cancer growth appears to significantly reduce the proliferation of prostate cancer cells in laboratory cell cultures and animals, while also making these cells considerably more vulnerable to radiation, according to results of a study led by Johns Hopkins scientists.

In a study published in ACS» journal Molecular Pharmaceutics, scientists report that they've developed a simple, «3D» laboratory method to test asthma and allergy medications that mimics what happens in the body, which could help reduce the need for animal testing.

In their research, scientists at Rutgers created animal models that closely resemble the cancerous tumors found in women with ovarian cancer by injecting tumor tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratory mice.

On Monday, a U.K. court convicted four animal - rights activists of threatening companies that supply an animal testing laboratory, a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks.

But now, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have made an important breakthrough: they have discovered a way to transform skin cells into mature, fully functioning liver cells that flourish on their own, even after being transplanted into laboratory animals modified to mimic liver failure.

URBANA, Ill. — Years of research in University of Illinois scientist John Erdman's laboratory have demonstrated that lycopene, the bioactive red pigment found in tomatoes, reduces growth of prostate tumors in a variety of animal models.

Rehabilitation of laboratory animals apart from being ethical, can be a fabulous vehicle for communication and conciliation between scientists and the public.

«For the past 30 or 40 years, scientists have used similar animals to figure out how fear might work in humans,» says senior author of the paper and associate professor at Salk's Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Sreekanth Chalasani.

Scientists believe Bd originated in Africa and first spread around the world due to the trade in African clawed frogs, which are commonly used as laboratory research animals.

Professional Experience 1983 — 1986 Research / Teaching Assistant, Exercise Physiology, University of Texas, Austin TX 1986 — 1990 Assistant Instructor / Research Assistant, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, and Vertebrate Physiology, University of Texas, Austin TX 1993 — 1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, Oregon State University 1994 — 1996 Technical Services Advisor, Genetic Resources, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME 1996 — 1998 Manager, Technical Services, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME 1997 — 1998 Assistant Professor, Adjunct, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas NM 1998 — 2000 Senior Technical Information Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME 2000 — 2002 Senior New Models Development Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME 2002 — 2004 Associate Director of Genetic Resources, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME 2004 — 2005 Associate Research Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor ME 2004 — 2009 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas NM 2009 — 2014 Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas NM 2014 — present Professor, Dept. of Biology, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas NM

Since most of the research work still focuses on early basic science work and studies in animals, the funding has mainly created jobs tied to laboratory construction and positions for new scientists, assistants and lab technicians, the study said.

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have made important progress in understanding the earliest steps in a process that protects animal genomes from potentially dangerous genetic elements called transposons.

For years, scientists have studied Huntington's disease primarily in post-mortem brain tissue or laboratory animals modified to mimic the disease.

Dec. 18, 2017 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and engineers have developed a «brain - on - a-chip» device aimed at testing and predicting the effects of biological and chemical agents, disease or pharmaceutical drugs on the brain over time without the need for human or animal subjects.

It enables rank - and - file scientists — just about anyone with a modern laboratory and the right skills — to alter specific genes within plants and animals and make those changes heritable.

But now scientists in the laboratory of Gladstone Institutes» Investigator Sheng Ding, MD, PhD, harnessing the power of regenerative medicine, have developed a technique in animal models that could replenish the very cells destroyed by the disease.

«For the past 30 or 40 years, scientists have used simpler animals to figure out how fear might work in humans,» Sreekanth Chalasani, associate professor in Salk's Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory and senior author of the paper, said in a statement.

In a laboratory experiment, scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel showed that younger animals already eat less and grow more slowly at only slightly elevated carbon dioxide concentrations.

2010 — Investigator, Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences and Max - Planck - Partner - Group on Stem Cell Aging, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences 2007 — 2009 Associate Investigator, Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences and Max - Planck - Partner - Group on Stem Cell Aging, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences 2007 Posdoc Fellow at Department of Molecular Medicine and Max - Planck - Research - Group on Stem Cell Aging, Ulm University 2005 Guest scientist at Laboratory of Stem Cell Therapy, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo 2003 — 2004 Visiting Scientist at Gene Mapping Center, Max Delbr ¨ ¹ ck Center, Berlin, Germany 2001 — 2003 Research Assistant, Sino - German Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Fu Wai Hospital & Cardiovascular Institute, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences 1997 — 1998 Resident Physician, Youjian Hospital, Shangdoscientist at Laboratory of Stem Cell Therapy, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo 2003 — 2004 Visiting Scientist at Gene Mapping Center, Max Delbr ¨ ¹ ck Center, Berlin, Germany 2001 — 2003 Research Assistant, Sino - German Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Fu Wai Hospital & Cardiovascular Institute, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences 1997 — 1998 Resident Physician, Youjian Hospital, ShangdoScientist at Gene Mapping Center, Max Delbr ¨ ¹ ck Center, Berlin, Germany 2001 — 2003 Research Assistant, Sino - German Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Fu Wai Hospital & Cardiovascular Institute, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences 1997 — 1998 Resident Physician, Youjian Hospital, Shangdong, China

Dr Kevin Strange, president of MDI Biological Laboratory, added: «Scientists here are studying an evolutionarily diverse range of animals to gain insight into the genetic mechanisms underlying the repair and regeneration of complex tissues and why these processes are poorly active in humans.

Scientists take their responsibilities towards all laboratory animals, including those that are genetically modified, very seriously.

The Jackson Laboratory Research scientist / Animal models of human disease, Mouse Mutant Resource, Genetic Resource Science 2006 - present

«The amounts detected were at levels that scientists have found cause neurological and developmental damage in laboratory animals,» the paper reports.

In the research setting, scientists induce insulin resistance and diabetes by feeding laboratory animals a low carbohydrate diet high in fat and protein.

Scientists have shown that oral glutathione is absorbed intact in laboratory animals, and that glutathione crosses human intestinal cells intact.

Scientists gave several compounds derived from holy basil, most known and a few newly identified, to laboratory animals in doses of 40 milligrams per kilogram of body weight.

With rudimentary laboratories, one could argue that more was accomplished with regards to the effect of diet on cancer in the former half of the century, as revolutionary researchers like Tannenbaum, Rous, and their colleagues provided us with dozens of animal studies linking diet and cancer by exposing mice to free radical - laden vegetable oils.32, 33 Several decades later, two other researchers, Dayton and Pearce, provided one of the few studies revealing what happens when we give humans vegetable oils and their accompanying free radicals when they randomized men to a corn oil solution and a similar rise in cancer followed.34 It is no surprise that corn oil is often used in animal studies to cause cancer, as the ingestion of damaging free radicals predictably hastens cancer development.35 Furthermore, these scientists were the first to show that fasting, restricting calories, and cutting carbohydrates could lower the chance of cancer in animals exposed to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens.

Scientists in several laboratories around the world are working to unlock this mystery with animal studies.

NC State Veterinary Medicine diagnostic laboratories serve veterinarians, scientists, educators, companion animal owners, and the livestock and poultry industry by identifying and monitoring emerging diseases, genetic disorders and developing new diagnostic methods.

Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers care for animals by performing routine tasks under the supervision of scientists, veterinarians, and veterinary technologists and technicians.

Earlier this month, scientists at Cornell's Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory identified the virus responsible for the outbreak as a strain of H3N2 influenza that had previously only been seen in Korea, China, and Thailand.

AABP American Association of Bovine Practitioners AAEP American Association of Equine Practitioners AAFP American Association of Feline Practitioners AAVP American Association Veterinary Parasitologists ABT American Board of Toxicology ABVP American Board of Veterinary Practitioners ABVT American Board of Veterinary Toxicology ACLAM American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine ACPV American College of Poultry Veterinarians ACT American College of Theriogenologists ACVA American College of Veterinary Anesthesiologists ACVB American College of Veterinary Behaviorists ACVCP American College of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology ACVD American College of Veterinary Dermatology ACVECC American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care ACVIM American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine ACVM American College of Veterinary Microbiologists ACVN American College of Veterinary Nutrition ACVO American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists ACVP American College of Veterinary Pathologists ACVPM American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine ACVR American College of Veterinary Radiology ACVS American College of Veterinary Surgeons ACZM American College of Zoological Medicine ASVCP American Society for Veterinary Clinical Pathology AVDC American Veterinary Dental College ECAMS European College of Avian Medicine and Surgery ECAR European College of Animal Reproduction ECLAM European College of Laboratory Animal Medicine ECVA European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia ECVCP European College of Veterinary Clinical Pathology ECVD European College of Veterinary Dermatology ECVDI European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging ECVIM European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine ECVN European College of Veterinary Neurology ECVO European College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists ECVP European College of Veterinary Pathologists ECVPH European College of Veterinary Public Health ECVPT European College of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology ECVS European College of Veterinary Surgeons EVDC European Veterinary Dentistry College FACVSc Australian College of Veterinary Scientists, Fellow

The OVC leads the U of G Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses, with more than 40 university scientists, as well as government and industry collaborators, and the Institute of Comparative Cancer Investigation, which is creating a research environment linking research laboratories and the animal cancer center for the benefit of people and animals.

AWI engages policymakers, scientists, industry and the public to achieve better treatment of animals everywhere — in the laboratory, on the farm, in commerce, at home and in the wild.

international Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory are to be believed, our hunter - gatherer ancestors were experiencing something of an ecological disaster during this time - a large - scale environmental «Mega-drought» - which left animal and human lifeforms fighting for survival in an unforgiving climate amidst an agriculturally - redundant landscape.

One effect of the changes to the draft, reviewed by Reuters in a comparison with the published report, was the removal of multiple scientists» conclusions that their studies had found no link between glyphosate and cancer in laboratory animals.

Yet some scientists who have been quieted or marginalized have found serious concerns about the safety of GMOs in laboratory animal studies.

Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers care for animals by performing routine tasks under the supervision of scientists, veterinarians, and veterinary technologists and technicians.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SHARP HEALTHCARE, Livermore Falls, ME (6/2010 to Present) Biology Lab Assistant • Prepare specimens for laboratory experiments by following appropriate standards and procedures • Set up, adjust, calibrate and maintain laboratory and field equipment • Troubleshoot laboratory equipment to ensure that it is in proper working order when needed during experiments • Prepare specimens that need to be used in experiments in accordance to specific instructions provided • Analyze experimental data and ensure that interpreted results are properly documented and reported • Assist in conducting research and collecting information and samples such as soil, water, plants, animals and blood • Measure and weigh compounds and other materials to be used for testing purposes • Monitor all laboratory work to ensure that it complies with set laboratory standards • Provide technical support to scientists and monitor and observe experiments to increase informational database • Feed and look after livestock and laboratory animals • Provide support to operational programs such as fish hatcheries and greenhouses