Sentences with phrase «living animal models»

The faster speed means it will be possible for the first time to watch disease progression in living animal models at the molecular level.

One of the major next steps would be placing the engineered tissue in the vocal cords of living animal models and having it survive and work.

«Our next steps are to extend these studies from yeast and cell culture into live animal models.

The research team then wanted to see whether the same would occur in live animal models.

This effect was also observed in a live animal model, showing that rats injected with ar - tumerone into their brains experienced increases in neural stem cell proliferation and the creation of newly formed healthy brain cells.

Students enrolled in microsurgical training courses receive one - on - one training in surgery and microsurgery, including intensive instruction on the proper use of an operating microscope and surgical loupes, micro-instruments, micro-suture, and live animal models (rats).

Testing compounds and pharmacological agents following strict protocols and rigorous study measures on live animal models.

Not exact matches

We are to model our lives after Christ, the Son of God, who though he was God's very equal, came to earth, was born in an animal's feeding stall and died on a cross.

What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare?By presenting models for understanding animals» moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection wi...

It is currently playing out in the live animal export sector, where the demise of local processing opened the door for a live export sector, which in turn through its simple business model has compromised livestock welfare and alienated many consumers, reduced employment in Top End towns which once had abattoirs, and added risk to cattle business profitability by providing only one market outlet.

December 9 - 11: Gardens Aglow transforms 100 acres into a twinkling wonderland with holiday displays, family - friendly activities, marshmallow - roasting, live performances, Santa Claus visits, model trains, and baby animals (Sandwich)

November 27: Gardens Aglow transforms 100 acres into a twinkling wonderland with holiday displays, family - friendly activities, marshmallow - roasting, live performances, Santa Claus visits, model trains, and baby animals (Sandwich)

Gardens Aglow transforms 100 acres into a winter wonderland with family - friendly activities, marshmallow - roasting, live performances, Santa Claus visits, model trains, and baby animals (Sandwich)

Animal Models of Early Life Stress: Implications for Understanding Resilience.

«Hi Tor operates as a no - kill shelter and we are here to help all animals survive and thrive, however we must be able to operate on a fiscally sound business model or risk insolvency and the possibility of putting these animals lives at risk.

The search for more of these factors is complicated by the rarity of brain samples from suicide victims and the lack of an animal model — humans are unique in their wilful ability to end their lives.

New experimental models based on three - dimensional reconstructions of human skin are helping to reduce chemical testing on live animals, but can not yet replace animals altogether

In animal models, the researchers found that using microRNA to disrupt cells in the brain's prefrontal cortex — a region associated with complex planning and decision - making — affected learning and memory later in life.

There are many promising drugs under development at life sciences companies that have just been waiting for a usable animal model.

Scientists of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) have shown in a mouse model that the epigenetic * modification of the Igfbp2 ** gene observed in the young animal precedes a fatty liver in the adult animal later in life.

«They are more true - to - life than cells in dishes and more human - like than animal models,» said Hamilton.

Modeling how forces of locomotion act on an animal's bones — living or extinct — could help scientists understand why.

Importantly, the development of a new animal model for Dravet syndrome based on reduced CHD2 expression might help to find effective treatments that could improve the lives of thousands of people suffering from Dravet syndrome and perhaps other genetic epilepsies.»

To better determine the role of specific chemoattractants in type III hypersensitivity, lead author Yoshishige Miyabe, MD, PhD, a research fellow in Luster's lab, used multiphoton intravital microscopy — an imaging technology pioneered for studies of immune cell movements in living animals by CIID investigator and co-author Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD — to follow in real time the development of IC - induced arthritis in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis.

The research showed that moral decisions in the con?ned scope of unavoidable traffic collisions can be explained well, and modeled, by a single value - of - life for every human, animal, or inanimate object.

Using a novel approach for imaging the movement of immune cells in living animals, researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases (CIID) have identified what appear to be the initial steps leading to joint inflammation in a model of inflammatory arthritis.

Scaling their model up to a shark 21 feet long and weighing 7,300 pounds — akin to the largest of living white sharks — they found that such an animal opening its jaws to a 35 degree angle could squeeze its prey with almost 4,000 pounds of force.

To tackle this problem, Patricia Lopes and her colleagues used a novel combination of experimental manipulations of free - living mice, radio frequency tracking of animals, social network analysis and disease modelling.

The plant - gathering and hunting economy of the San has been extensively studied as a model for how people lived until relatively recent times, when animals and plants were domesticated.

Since olfactory sensory neurons regenerate throughout life, even in humans, the investigators were able to measure neuron regeneration in specific animal models.

The use of cell surface markers to isolate specific cell populations is one common method for separating cells; however, isolating live cells based on their RNA expression is a powerful new way enabling the study of small cell niches in nongenetically modified animal models and human tissue.

Some theoretical models suggested that new neurons destabilize memories already stored in the hippocampus by degrading the information there, but the idea had never been explored in live animals.

«I did a lot of modelling to work out how far we needed to move the mine before detonating it — for the protection of both the pipeline and the animals that we know live in that area.»

Historically, animal models — from fruit flies to mice — have been the go - to technique to study the biological consequences of aging, especially in tissues that can't be easily sampled from living humans, like the brain.

New fossil evidence, computer modeling and comparisons with living creatures are helping scientists to paint a clearer picture of these extinct animals, overturning many historic conceptions of their postures, gaits, skin coverings and colors.

Artifacts from that period — the obese human and animal figurines and the phallic symbols carved in stone or bone and modeled in clay — point to the idea that the people had an obsession with the living world and its successful propagation through the descent group or lineage.

But in living choanoflagellates, King believes researchers have a model organism to compare with animals and dissect the roots of animal multicellularity.

In a study published in the June 12 edition of Science, they detail how a new drug repaired damage to the colon, liver and bone marrow in animal models — even going so far as to save the lives of mice who otherwise would have died in a bone marrow transplantation model.

The first genetic clues for slowing aging emerged from animal models in which the effect of individual genes on average life spans could be tested.

Researchers gave animal models an oral supplement of spermidine and found that they lived longer and were less likely than untreated individuals to have liver fibrosis and cancerous liver tumors, even when predisposed for those conditions.

Also, research in other animal models, such as rodents, has shown anesthesia exposure early in life can lead to cell death in the brain and cognitive impairments.

You can also learn about the real - world plant and animal life that inspired Avatar's fictional flora and fauna, peer inside the Armored Mobility Platform suit that was used in combat scenes, and examine the filmmakers» models of Na» vi characters and their costumes.

In order to understand the biology of fossilized animals, researchers often turn to living animals with similarities that help model how extinct animals moved.

Now scientists regularly use iPSCs to model diseases using cells that would be otherwise difficult to obtain from a living person or animal.

Using a mouse model of fragile X syndrome, the researchers recorded the activity of networks of neurons in a living mouse brain while the animal was both awake and asleep.

Roundworms are a popular animal model for longevity studies because of their relatively short life span and ease of care.

And a variety of studies with animal models has shown that nanoparticles can trigger damage in living tissues (Science, 18 June 2004, p. 1732).

«We wanted to develop a newborn screen for NPC because we know that the earlier we intervene with investigational treatments in animal models of the disease, the longer the animals live,» said Ory, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine.

The team, including researchers from the Natural History Museum in London, quantified the anatomical and genetic differences between living animals, and established a timeframe over which those differences accumulated with the help of the fossil record and intricate mathematical models.

Instead of using whole animals, these models used cells taken from live animals and grown in Petri dishes.