Sentences with phrase «like animal researchers»

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«Smartest Food Scientist on Earth» Researchers at the Not Company (NotCo), a food - tech startup based in Chile, have developed food products that are made completely of plants but tastes like animal food.

Pairing state - of - the - art technology like DNA sequencers and robotic fluid handlers in the lab with Shedd's world - class animal expertise, the lab enables Aquarium researchers to study the countless invisible organisms that co-exist with the 32,000 animals in Shedd's care.

Researchers at the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB), an NSF Science and Technology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, study plants like this Arabidopsis thaliana to learn how molecules, cells and tissues integrate mechanics within plant and animal biology, with the aim of creating new materials, biomedical therapies and agricultural technologies.

Thanks to CRISPR gene - editing tools, researchers can tweak the rat genome to create so - called transgenic animals with human - like disease traits.

«The elegant studies here provide proof of concept that targeting LMPTP in the liver improves glucose control and liver insulin signalling in animals,» says Daniel Drucker of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, who says that targeting enzymes like LMPTP has long been a goal for researchers tackling diabetes.

He and his colleagues had reconstructed the partial genome of a woolly mammoth found frozen in Siberia, and he was convinced that researchers like himself would soon be able to take bits of degraded tissue samples, extract ancient DNA and use them to piece together whole genomes of extinct animals.

For more than 20 years, researchers have suggested that private messages could help animals like the swordtail show off for potential mates while avoiding unwelcome carnivorous attention.

Researchers have noted ever since it was discovered in 1979 that it looks like a molecular crowbar for forcing entry into animal cells.

Using a new technique to deliver gene - therapy - like intervention directly where it's needed, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University successfully increased or decreased the muscle tone of the anal sphincter in appropriate animal models.

Researchers have found one of the oldest and most detailed fossils of the central nervous system yet identified, from a crustacean - like animal that lived more than 500 million years ago.

Researchers like Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, have found at least 868 human pathogens that infect both animals and humans, although some are not as fearsome as they seem.

The fossils, discovered by a team including researchers from the University of Leicester, show two species of marine worms with other, smaller worm - like animals attached to the outer surface of their body.

The researchers looked at past associations between the threat of extinction and the ecological traits like species habitat zone, and examined the same associations in modern marine animals.

She notes that in Africa, the longstanding Western legend of an «African unicorn» was explained in the early 20th century by British researchers, who found and described the flesh - and - blood okapi, a giraffe relative that looks like a mix between that animal and a zebra and a horse.

There's been a growing realization among diabetes researchers that human islet development differs significantly from islet development in typical laboratory animals like mice.»

Some researchers have argued that a single mutation powered the «leap» from an animal - like communication system to something uniquely human (Science, 22 November 2002, p. 1569), and that some level of complexity was necessary from the outset.

When the researchers repeated the chamber experiments, they found the cold tolerance of the surviving Brownsville lizards had increased — the animals could right themselves down to 6 °C, just like the northernmost lizards, Campbell - Staton and his colleagues report today in Science.

The researchers announced results from human and animal studies that found biomarkers of harmful cardiac, pulmonary, and reproductive effects from exposure to alternative tobacco products — a growing market of constantly evolving products including electronic cigarettes, hookah, and smokeless tobacco like snuff and gutkha.

But like researchers who clone animals (see p. 85), plant scientists understand little about what actually controls the process.

In one scorpion species, researchers have found that the arachnids use a relatively weak, but easily produced, prevenom for small jobs such as paralyzing insects and save their deadliest venom for serious work like fending off a larger animal.

Researchers have discovered that, like plants and invertebrate animals, mammals use the RNA interference (RNAi) process to destroy viruses within their own cells.

The researchers induced psoriasis - like symptoms in the ears of mice while simultaneously dosing the animals with either dimethyl itaconate or placebo every day for a week.

Now, a team led by neurotransplant researcher Ole Isacson of Harvard Medical School in Boston reports that stem cells can compensate for some Parkinson's - like damage in animals.

The researchers avoided asking questions about some of the more broadly accepted justifications for killing animals, like doing so for food.

By comparing different click types to recordings at the surface — where researchers can see which animals are making the noise — scientists can learn what different species sound like, and use those clicks to map the animals» movements deep underwater.

The results build on previous studies that show dogs can process nonverbal cues like the tone of someone's voice, says Victoria Ratcliffe, an animal behavior researcher at the University of Sussex, who was not involved in thestudy.

Remarkably, giving animals injections of lithium salts — which mimics WNT signaling by inhibiting the molecule GSK3 — or giving animals a more specific GSK inhibitor, the researchers were able to restore normal synapse and spine numbers and also improve some of the most significant psychiatric - like behavioral abnormalities in these mice.

Seeing through objects may seem like something straight out of a comic book, but researchers have found a way to make entire animals transparent — from their brains to their bones.

A group of researchers says that the closest known evolutionary cousin of whales, dolphins and porpoises is not the hippopotamus, as conventional wisdom has it, but an extinct deer - like animal roughly the size of a fox or raccoon.

As next steps, the researchers would like to test their hydrogel matrix in animals with normal immune systems and in disease models.

The researchers looked at domestic and international trade of corn, rice, soy and wheat, along with such livestock products as ruminant (animals like cattle, goats and sheep that subsist on plant matter), pork and poultry.

To learn more about decay and fossilization, researchers conduct unorthodox experiments — like dissecting decomposing animals in the lab.

Earlier this year, researchers discovered that periods when the ocean had high levels of trace elements — like zinc, copper, manganese and selenium — seemed to overlap with periods of high productivity, including the Cambrian explosion, when most groups of living animals first appeared.

The only way the animal could remain airborne, the researchers found, was if it had split - level wings, like those of a biplane.

Now, thanks to high - resolution X-ray imaging, researchers have peered inside its cranial cavity and created a three - dimensional computer model of what the animal's brain likely looked like.

«I've been studying these [animals] for most of my life and I've never seen anything like it,» says Ted Pietsch, a deep - sea fish researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Niven particularly admires the researchers» method for finding scouts, because it makes no assumptions about what scouts might behave like, but only finds animals that go to new places.

The researchers hope that applying their technique to higher - order animals like mice will shed light on how neural networks tackle tougher tasks.

In collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), researchers in the UPV / EHU's «Nutrition and Obesity» Group, which belongs to the Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn) of the Carlos III Institute of Health, have observed in animal models that its administration reduces the build - up of body fat, which could reduce the risk of developing other diseases like diabetes.

Sounds like science fiction, but new research in an animal model of hemophilia suggests that it can work - and now HD researchers are on the case.

Just as a model car resembles a real car, animal models are enough like people that researchers can use them in experiments.

After studying how quickly Europa's surface ice was replenished, University of Arizona researcher Richard Greenberg estimated in 2009 that enough oxygen reaches the subterranean ocean to sustain 6.6 billion pounds of «microfauna» — more complex animal - like organisms.

The researchers estimate that the creature was likely larger than the Sarcosuchus, another crocodile - like animal known to reach up to 39 feet long.

The researchers say that they would now like to show that bone and cartilage tissue grows in the presence of nanosilicates in vivo (in animals such as mice and rats to begin with).

Using the fruit fly Drosophila, a standard lab model for studying animal biology, the researchers discovered a cascade of molecular signals that program gene activity to drive the fly from one stage of maturation to the next, like a baby turning into an adult.

For decades, researchers like Dr. Denis Burkitt have postulated that Western diets, high in animal protein and fat but low in fiber, raise colon cancer risk compared with African diets, which are high in whole food carbohydrates, resistant starch and fiber, and low in fat, protein and oils.

Anecdotally, I've spoken with some cancer researchers who claim to be virtually curing cancer in animals using a combination of ketogenic diet and PI3K or mTOR, like rapamycin, but these data aren't published.

It's like coconut oil, 30 odd years ago when researchers fed animals hydrogenated coconut oil that was purposely altered to make it completely devoid of any essential fatty acids.The animals fed the hydrogenated coconut oil (as the only fat source) naturally became essential fatty acid deficient; their serum cholesterol increased.

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.

Researchers found that the longest - lived animals, like sea turtles, contain large amounts of SOD, while shorter - lived animals, such as mice, contain only small amounts.