Sentences with phrase «least in laboratory animals»

Because high stress levels can cut into life - span and reproduction, at least in laboratory animals, Wasser says the results — which he emphasizes are preliminary — raise some questions about the efficacy of federal regulations designed to protect the owl.

Rapamycin, an antibiotic and immunosuppressant approved for use about 15 years ago, has drawn extensive interest for its apparent ability — at least in laboratory animal tests — to emulate the ability of dietary restriction in helping animals to live both longer and healthier.

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It is customary and even ethically mandatory that experimentation that carries with it a substantial degree of risk to human subjects first be tested in an animal laboratory or, at the very least, on a computer model.

Even small children might be surprised to discover that their representatives in Washington no longer consider rats, mice, and birds used in laboratory experiments to be animals, or at least animals worthy of protection.

Recently, Paul Sherman, an animal behaviorist at Cornell, and Timothy Judd, a graduate student at Colorado State University, have observed another hive - like trait among the pink, gerbil - size animals: some of them behave — at least in laboratory colonies — like selfless worker bees, providing food for the rest of a sometimes indolent colony.

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Because you'll be working with animals in a clinical or laboratory setting upon graduation from your program, it is essential that you obtain hands - on experience in at least one of these settings prior to completing your education.

The researchers, using $ 200,000 in seed money from the University of Washington, plan to use pets, not laboratory animals, for the initial study, and recruit volunteer dogs — or at least dogs whose owners volunteer them — for larger scale studies in the future.