Sentences with phrase «methods used in animals»

Testing drugs for abuse liability and dependence potential: methods used in animals and man.

Not exact matches

Founded in 2017 and based in Emeryville, California, Finless Foods is one of a number of startups using so - called cellular agriculture to replace age - old methods of food production: farming, animal husbandry, and, in this case, fishing.

Even in the bible with talks of how the early church was to worship, it basically just says that whatever method with which you feel comfortable worshiping, use it to glorify the Lord (within reason, clearly animal sacrifices, etc were no longer accepted practices).

The cramped and cruel methods used in the modern food industry, for example, may cross the line of morally acceptable treatment of animals....

Ultimately, whilst sustainable palm oil remains a niche it doesn't matter where the sustainable oil ends up — the point is that responsible methods have been used in the first place, without harming people, animals or the environment.

Organic production is an overall system of farm management and food production that combines best environmental practices, a high level of biodiversity, the preservation of natural resources, the application of high animal welfare standards and a production method in line with the preference of certain consumers for products produced using natural substances and processes.

Our Firm is located near the castle of Canossa, in the hills of Pecorile and focuses its activities in full respect of nature, following only the organic production method.Our cows are raised without GMO, chemical fertilizers, chemical pesticides and without antibiotics.The production culture is all used in breeding, infact, the animals have access to pasture and are treated with homeopathic and herbal medicines.All working process of Parmigiano Reggiano, is followed by the master cheese maker, using traditional methods of processing.

«We chose to use Axiom Foods» Oryzatein ® ingredient,» said CEO of Growing Naturals, David Janow, «because it is the only 90 % brown rice protein isolate that is made with a proprietary enzyme fractioning method and was shown in a clinical trial for the first time to equal animal - based whey protein in building and maintaining muscle.»

I greatly disliked the nutrient standard method, formerly used by my district, because it seemed to create an odd «nutritionism» approach — as when Houston kids were actually required to take a package of animal crackers every morning at breakfast for the iron contained in the fortified flour.

NYC's Animal Care Center uses inadequate methods in compiling its daily «kill list,» giving condemned pets just 18 hours to get adopted before they are put down, advocates and experts charge.

Dr Loch says the study showed how using techniques and methods commonly employed in dentistry can answer questions with broader implications in the biology and evolution of animal species.

«Using a genetic method, we inhibited MTF1 in the epileptic mice and as a result, the seizures in the animals were much rarer and weaker,» says lead author Dr. Karen M.J. van Loo who is conducting research in the team working with Prof. Becker.

Back in the early 1950s, when I was a graduate student at Harvard, the general assumption was that language, like all other human activities, is just a collection of learned behaviors developed through the same methods used to train animals — by reinforcement.

The cheese - making process is so easy, in fact, that Evershed thinks the pottery makers, probably the first farmers in Europe, likely discovered the method accidentally by using dried animal stomachs to store their milk.

For all laboratory animal experimentation described in the manuscript, the Science Journals require that authors state in the Methods section their adherence to the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, or the equivalent.

But to implement legislation to assess the toxicity of some chemicals requires thousands of fish and there are currently no reliable alternative methods to assess their accumulation and toxic effects in the gut without using live animals.

Although the discovery was made in plants, Pruitt suspects that animals, including humans, might also use this method to correct faulty genes.

The UCLA researchers plan to develop strategies to test the Duchenne - specific CRISPR / Cas9 platform to treat the disease in animals as the next step toward perfecting a method that can be used in humans.

BPTES has been used in animal models for a variety of cancers but has not substantially reduced tumor sizes, probably because the drug concentration in tumor tissue is not high enough when using conventional drug formulation methods, say the scientists.

«The commission said it will seek to speed up the development and uptake of alternative methods [to replace the use of animals in the lab], and to better monitor compliance with the directive in member states,» Rabesandratana wrote.

In the case of CHD2, scientists collaborating with the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium used antisense technology to rapidly generate zebrafish larvae with a partial loss of function of this gene, and were then able to detect epileptic seizures in these animals using electrographic analysis (this method is very similar to electroencephalography, or EEG, which is used to analyze seizures in humansIn the case of CHD2, scientists collaborating with the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium used antisense technology to rapidly generate zebrafish larvae with a partial loss of function of this gene, and were then able to detect epileptic seizures in these animals using electrographic analysis (this method is very similar to electroencephalography, or EEG, which is used to analyze seizures in humansin these animals using electrographic analysis (this method is very similar to electroencephalography, or EEG, which is used to analyze seizures in humansin humans).

By applying the same phylogenetic methods that biologists use to trace descent in plants and animals it is possible to explore the «evolution» of stars in the Galaxy.

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.

The researchers say the technology should be available soon to scientists who do research in animals, although it will take many more years to develop the method for use in humans.

Together they have used traditional methods from climate research to study how animals are affected by changes in the climate.

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.

On 3 March, a so - called European Citizens» Initiative (ECI) signed by 1.17 million signatories formally urged the commission to scrap a 2010 directive regulating the use of animals in scientific research and to propose new rules phasing out animal research in favor of «more accurate, reliable, human - relevant methods.»

As this method is efficacious in biological materials for which genetic operation was difficult, it has been used mainly for higher eukaryotes such as animals and plants.

Neuroscientists have used optogenetics methods to control the firing of neurons in animals, and others have also fused light - sensitive switches to enzymes, but this new approach goes beyond that to allow light to control a chosen gene, explains MIT neuroscientist Edward Boyden.

Instead of using the traditional method of introducing genetic mutations into mice to create «knockout» mice — or animals with customized genes — they found they were able to find naturally occurring variants among animals in the wild.

This method uses light to precisely control the activity of specific neurons in living, even moving, animals in real time.

His recent published work describes the rescued visual function in animals using retinal pigment epithelial cells derived from human embryonic stem cells and a method for deriving stem cells using a single - cell approach that does not harm embryos.

For reminder, the Directive allows the use of animals in research where the potential medial, veterinary and scientific benefits are compelling and there is no other viable alternative method.

The general approach is to develop new vector systems and delivery methods, test them in the appropriate animal models, uncover the mechanisms involved in vector transduction, and use the most promising approaches in clinical trials.

Where no alternative method is recognised by the legislation of the Union, the numbers of animals used may be reduced by resorting to other methods and by implementing testing strategies, such as the use of in vitro and other methods that would reduce and refine the use of animals.»

Tobias Bonhoeffer and colleagues use two - photon microscopy, which allows imaging to a depth of approximately half a millimeter, as one method of studying structural changes in the brains of living animals.

Studies which assess the toxicology of new drugs typically have some element of animal testing, and a paper published in the journal Nature Communications has described a method using in vitro tests which are carried out without animals.

Further discussions of REACH and alternative testing methods will be addressed at the 7th World Congress on Alternatives & Animal Use in the Life Sciences held in Rome, Italy, August 30 to September 3.

In addition, the use of viruses allows much better spatiotemporal control over labeling methods as compared to transgenic animals (17).

The ethics statement in the Methods section states, «The experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of China Medical University.»

A radioactive isotope, carbon - 14, and part of the carbon molecule, found in unfossilized human and animal bone and charcoal, has been used to date Neamderthal remains and it was this carbon - 14 dating method that established the date for Neanderthal extinction - 28,000 years ago - as well as the dates assigned to the various Neanderthal sites found throughout Eurasia.

• Addressing the human - specific nature of antibodies is possible using Organ - Chips that recreate the complexity of human biology, since novel antibody targets are not expressed in animals and therefore require alternatives to current preclinical experimental methods.

A Bull's - Eye dye laser (Fryer, Huntley, IL, USA) excited by a VSL - 337 nitrogen laser (Laser Science, Inc., Newton, MA, USA) was used on a Nikon Microphot FXA microscope to ablate AVA cells in L1 animals (for method, see [45]-RRB-.

Those breakthroughs include the development of new screening methods to search for effective drugs, new ways to treat hepatitis B using different approaches to shut down the virus, a new blood biomarker that aids in the early detection of liver cancer, and a promising drug that selectively kills liver cancer cells in animal studies.

Salatin raises livestock using holistic management methods of animal husbandry on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley.

re: ``... and / or those who use sustainable farming methods...» Since there is no way to farm animals in a sustainable way for the current human population (watch the movie Cowspiracy to understand why), that idea goes out the window too.

Being turned into a four - legged animal to change errant behavior is also the method used in The Emperor's New Groove.

2 differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of chapter 8 of Animal Farm for the new linear specification (9 - 1) Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow = higher Resources are planned around the new specification and provide opportunities to: - analyse writer's methods - explore character presentations - write imaginatively in role of a character on the farm - practice extract to whole - discuss interpretations - Use the language paper mark scheme to structure an effective piece of writing - Write persuasively using the 6 part structure

The best method for cleaning ears, according to Brian A. Crook, DVM, president of Vital Animal Health — the manufacturer of Vet Essentials and CalmCoat — is to «simply squirt the product in your pet's ear, massage the base of the ear, and then use a cotton ball to remove the excess cleanser and dirt.»

There are two kinds of therapy animals here in Singapore — the first are involved in animal - assisted therapy (AAT), which is a method administered by a health professional (like a counsellor or physiotherapist) using the help of a trained therapy animal.