Sentences with phrase «model for human»

Cradle to Cradle generates life - enhancing growth by recognizing healthy, productive natural systems as the model for human designs.

Macro and Micro economics assume a model for human decision making and impose those assumptions on the economic system.

We don't know if a bee could really die from overeating, yet the overfed bee here is a fictional fragment and its greedy nature a deliberate attribution by the artist, just as the hardworking bee and its diligent nature may well be an intentional design to set a certain model for the human society.

In conclusion, the early - onset and the variable nature of the repetitive behaviour, which is affected by environmental factors such as micronutrients, neutering and maternal care, share several similar components between canine and human compulsions and supports canine TC as a model for human OCD.

The domestic dog is frequently cited as being an exceptional model for human inherited disorders due to the number of diseases identified, similarity in disease presentation, and population structure in the dog [1].

Cats tend to have a type of skin cancer in their heads and mouths that some researchers are using as a model for human head and neck cancers.

Sang - Hyuk Chung, 1 Kerri Weidmeyer, 1 Anna Shai, 1 Kenneth S. Korach, 2 and Paul F. Lambert 1, Requirement for Estrogen Receptor Alpha in a Mouse Model for Human Papillomavirus - Associate Cervice Cancer.

Human medical research by physicians and scientists using the greyhound as a model for human disease.

The veterinarian that performed the surgery on Storm says that: «Because it has been implanted into the radius of the forearm of the dog, it will act as a model for human amputees in the future and provides hope for people without feet or hands.

Cats tend to have a type of skin cancer in their heads and mouths that some researchers are using as a model for human head and...

The New Teacher Project (TNTP) has recently released a new report, Keeping Irreplaceables in D.C. Public Schools: Lessons in Smart Retention, which holds up the reforms begun in DC public schools by former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee as a model for human capital reform.

They all come to love each other, as Olive takes on a teaching assistant position to help the two academics develop William's model for human emotion.

The mouse makes an excellent model for human disease because the organization of their DNA and their gene expression is similar to humans, with ninety - eight percent of human genes having a comparable gene in the mouse.

«Drosophila as a Model for Human Neurodegenerative Disease,» by Julide Bilen and Nancy M. Bonini, Annual Review of Genetics, December 2005.

«Ultimately, we have to get a human model for human diseases so that we can expand human experimental biology in an ethical way and ensure that better, safer drugs get to patients faster,» he says.

Not only can organoids potentially offer a better model for human disease, they can also be surprisingly easy to coax into being.

Clinicians and investigators in the fields of veterinary and human endocrine oncology, clinical trials, pathology, and drug development will be joined in this consortium, in order to improve knowledge, development of, and access to naturally occurring canine endocrine tumours, as a model for human disease.

The team tested its patch on both pig skin (which is an excellent model for the human skin barrier) and on healthy human volunteers and found that it could accurately monitor glucose levels across the hypo - to hyper - glycaemic range in diabetic patients over six hours.

«Clearly this is a model for both human as well as mouse development.»

Williams said that the discovery could be important for human medicine because the canine disease may serve as a model for human PVOD.

«We already established an infection model for the human lung.

«Previous studies of cardiac microtissues primarily used harvested rat cardiomyocytes, which is an imperfect model for human disease.»

That's because they may have finally developed a tissue model for the human heart that can bridge the gap between animal models and human patients.

According to the new work, the pathogen has infected humans for over 60,000 years and its genetic transformation over that time is remarkably similar to that of manmaking it a reasonable model for human migration and diversification.

The researchers administered a potential vaccine consisting of two components to twelve rhesus monkeys that served as an animal model for the human HIV infection.

«These are strong evidence that cave fish could be a good model for human psychiatric disease.»

Nyce and Metzger sprayed the antisense DNA into the lungs of eight asthmatic rabbits, the standard model for human asthma.

So we would never make the argument that dogs in general are a better model for the human mind — it's really just this special set of social skills.»

Since cavefish aren't a well - studied model for human metabolism, the researchers had to figure out protocols as they went, including developing a fish version of a glucose tolerance test.

Research in the laboratory of Rebecca Wingert, the Gallagher Family Associate Professor of Adult Stem Cell Research in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has confirmed the key role of a certain small molecule in the development of kidney structures in zebrafish, a widely used model for human kidneys.

«We are now studying pigs, which turn out to be a very good model for human cystic fibrosis,» Schaffer says.

These rats are a good model for human obesity — people, too, are either resistant or vulnerable to the condition.

Kepecs's model for human confidence stood up to a follow - on experiment in which participants answered questions comparing the populations of various countries.

To find out what impact this might have on a flu epidemic, Earn and his colleagues turned to a 1982 study which showed that ferrets, a common animal model for human flu, produced more seasonal flu virus if their fevers were lowered either with painkillers or by having their fur shaved off.

The scientists performed pre-clinical trials using experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, a pre-clinical model for human multiple sclerosis.

This is why it is important to study a very well established host - virus system like myxoma virus in the European rabbit as a model for human viruses and why understanding this mutation is important.»

Lord Lester's two private members» bills on making the European Human Rights Convention enforceable in British courts became the model for the Human Rights Act (HRA).

Lord Lester's two private members» bills on making the European Human Rights Convention enforceable in British courts later became the model for the Human Rights Act (HRA).

Religious or secular, it is a difficult task to compile supporting evidence that Jesus was / is a poor role model for human beings.

Qoheleth's model for a human life - style is clear: we are meant to be both people - for - others (workers) and people - with - others players).

If there is a basic thesis, it is that Whitehead has used the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics as a model for human experience (PW 125/134, 183/201; RL 285).

Sue, who works at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada, first looked at studies with mice, which he suggests are «good models for human physiology.»

In 1859, Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory reinforced the conception that animals could serve as models for humans in the study of biology and physiology.

Strategies that boost the cell's quality control programs, rather than disarm specific pathologic proteins, have looked promising in lab animals that serve as models for human neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia.

And the enrichments may make the animals better at what they do: serving as important models for human disease.

For example, rats are often good models for humans in disease research, but they aren't when it comes to pooping because rats are pellet poopers.

Harding also argues that because rodent studies suggest that these animals do lose neurons to alcohol, they may be unreliable models for the human hippocampus.

Kristien Van Reeth, of Belgium's Ghent University, and collaborators are comparing different vaccines and vaccination strategies in swine, which are used as a model for humans.

He has chaired numerous NIH committees and served on the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research and the NCI Mouce Models for Human Cancer Consortium.

The mice described in the current report were developed for testing of drug and vaccine candidates and may not be good models for human transmission, said Weaver.