Sentences with phrase «living laboratory animal»

This promising technique makes it possible to map active brain structures in a living laboratory animal or in a human being.

Intensive work with live laboratory animals including mice, rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, and rabbits

Not exact matches

Genetic engineering gives a certain laboratory and market control over human, animal and plant life.

Shedd Aquarium along with Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Illinois, Illinois Institute of Technology and the United States Department of Agriculture started this project to explore the unique relationships between the countless unseen living organisms that share our exhibit environments with the animals that live there.

Commercial testing of non-medical products is largely opposed, but fewer place the welfare of laboratory animals above the development of life - saving medical treatments.

However, in some studies with laboratory mice, Feinberg had observed that these epigenetic tags varied considerably among the mice even when comparing the same type of tissue in animals that have been living in the exact same conditions.

A class of small molecules found in grapes, red wine, olive oil, and other foods extends the life of yeast cells by approximately 70 % and activates genes known to extend life span in laboratory animals.

In laboratory tests on embryonic mice engineered to not express myomerger in skeletal muscle, the animals did not develop enough muscle fiber to live.

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.

In my own laboratory some years ago we showed that longer - lived animals have better maintenance and repair systems than short - lived animals do.

Complex phenomena — which we have so far only been able to study in live animals - can now be investigated in simple laboratory experiments using cultivated cells,» says postdoc Hans Christian Cederberg Helms from the Department of Pharmacy.

During the past two years, activists have conducted a crusade against Huntingdon Life Sciences, a laboratory that tests drugs and other products on animals.

And we suspect that these life experiences can alter the expression of genes, and as a result, affect an animal's susceptibility to stress,» says senior author Bruce McEwen, Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology.

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.

Gene editing techniques have the potential to treat blood disorders that run in families, such as thalassemia and sickle cell anemia, but their application has been largely limited to cells in a laboratory and not living animals.

Calorie restriction dramatically extends not only the lifespan of laboratory animals, but also their «healthspan» — how long they live free of disease.

Not only from the life science research viewpoint, but also from the social concern for the welfare of laboratory animals.

For example, it could be used to image neurons in living mice by combining the Raman scattering technique with existing methods in which tiny windows are implanted in the brains and spinal cords of laboratory animals.

«Almost all life on Earth is based on plants — animals eat plants and we eat animals or plants,» says Wolfgang Busch, an associate professor in Salk's Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory and senior author of the new paper.

Professor Lo, who co-leads the Molecular Ecology, Evolution and Phylogenetics laboratory in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, said termites had become heavyweights of the animal kingdom and despite their minute size, their global cumulative weight topped humans and was second only to cattle.

As biomedical research mushroomed, animal dealers did a brisk trade supplying chimpanzees to laboratories anxious to test their vaccines, drugs and theories about disease on our closest living relatives.

A cheap and simple test that identifies skin irritants in cosmetics and drugs could save thousands of animals from a life of suffering in laboratory experiments.

The findings have implications for all aspects of medical and scientific research because laboratory mice underpin studies whose results have a transformative effect on human and animal lives through vaccination and other immune - based therapies.

By making it easier to see live exotic animals, the menagerie functioned as a «prescientific laboratory» that made obsolete earlier sources of beastly lore: illustrated encyclopedias called bestiaries that described not only elephants, lions, and crocodiles but also dragons, griffins, unicorns, and talking pigs.

policies regarding human subjects, live vertebrate animal subjects in research, and safe laboratory practices

This is an important step, Singh said, since toxins may behave differently in live animals and humans than in laboratory blood samples.

That's because most studies on single human brain cells use dead rather than living tissue, and many others rely on cells from common laboratory animals, especially mice.

Recently, his laboratory pioneered the development of real - time biosensors that can continuously measure specific biomolecules directly in living animals.

The mitochondria are clearly very important in any consideration of aging, given that there are so very many ways to manipulate them to either shorten or lengthen life in laboratory animals.

Our mission is to encourage all animal keeping institutions to enrich the lives for their laboratory, domestic or wild animals and support them with information and updates about environmental enrichment, both from national and international known sources.

All mice were bred and housed in specific pathogen - free conditions at the Association of Laboratory Care - approved animal facility at the Life Science Addition, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

The principle of Refine requires laboratory animals to be treated with the greatest possible care and provided with the best possible housing conditions during their entire lives, both in the rearing of the animals and also throughout the experiment.

However, if live mice are sent to EMMA or if live mice are requested from the archive, EMMA ensures that mice are shipped according to conditions that comply with LASA (Laboratory Animals Science Association) guidelines.

But Gladstone postdoctoral scholar Li Qian, PhD, along with researchers in the laboratory of Deepak Srivastava, MD, has now accomplished this transformation in living animals — and with even greater success.

Severe caloric restriction has been found to extend the lives of animals in laboratories, and lowers our target of rapamycin, or TOR, which is a major determinant of aging.

Whether it was living comfortably off of their comic book royalties, guiding an angel and descendent of Christ to God Herself, or breaking into an animal laboratory on their way to busting into a major movie studio lot: these guys took care of business.

The word spread, a blood banking and delivery service was born as a part of the laboratory business, and veterinarians were able to get good, safe blood without continuing the common practice of keeping living donor animals on - site in their clinics.

These laboratories will be replaced with additional cadaver and humane society neutering laboratories so third year DVM students will still have experience with live animal and recovery surgeries but in the context of neutering procedures.

Large animal surgery elective laboratories in semester 6 are taught using cadaver parts (e.g. limbs, skulls) and live sheep that are recovered from some procedures and then euthanized after more invasive procedures.

From modern imaging equipment, like digital radiography and sonograms, to a real - time laboratory, we have the diagnostic tools that can literally save an animal's life.

We are committed to ending the dog and cat overpopulation crisis, but PETA also saves and improves the lives of animals who are suffering on factory farms and fur farms, and in laboratories, circuses, and other abusive industries.

From dogs saved from puppy mills, to rabbits rescued from laboratory testing facilities, and exotic animals freed from their lives as domesticated animals — the individuals who are removed from these horrible circumstances serve as an example for many other animals continuing to endure similar challenges.

Thanks to an equally historic collaborative outbreak response by organizations and agencies including Maddie's Fund ®, the ASPCA, the University of Wisconsin Shelter Medicine Program, New York City Animal Care and Control, the New York City Department of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, many cats» lives were saved.

By requiring the research institution to enter into a contract with an animal rescue group or shelter, there is a clear path to transition cats and dogs from the laboratory or testing facility to an adoption center who can offer these animals the possibility of living out the rest of their lives in a loving home.

Every living thing on the planet will naturally work to attain greater resources / mating opportunities, etc... In countless laboratory experiments, using a variety of species, from mice to primates, animals who were trained to work for rewards, continued to do so, even when given free access to another food supply.

A list of recent, real - life examples of the kind of severe suffering that many laboratory animals experience behind the closed doors of university and company laboratories.

We have a long way to go in creating humane conditions for farm animals and ending the horrors of laboratory life, yet every animal advocacy victory is a celebration for those whose lives are made better.

Sadly, like so many other animals, Xander the cat once lived the life of a laboratory test subject.

We've been conditioned to think about «lab rats» dutifully and mindlessly running through mazes in the pursuit of cheese, but we are never told that there are other animals who are also subject to horrific lives in laboratories.

We focus our research on investigations of animal agriculture, 2 but this intervention is also used to document animal abuse in other areas, such as laboratory research that involves live animals3 and the breeding of companion animals.4 We believe that undercover investigations have had significant direct effects in reducing farm animal suffering through corporate policy change.