Sentences with phrase «more animal experiments»

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The lesson here isn't that many sporting events would be more fun if they included unexpected intrusions by zoo animals or that scientists come up with some pretty weird experiments (though both, in my opinion, are true).

For more than decade, she's experimented with creating meat - free alternatives to the animal protein - heavy foods she grew up eating in Guam.

I do also recognize a hierarchy of living beings in that I regard human life as more valuable than animal life and would not oppose essential medical experiments on animals, although I am not persuaded that all experiments are essential.

Throughout the course of the experiment, the rats getting capsaicin gained 8 percent less weight than untreated animals, and just a little more weight than rats eating a normal diet.

I have been experimenting more and more with recipes that require eggs, and seeing as I try to avoid animal products, using chia paste or chia eggs are a perfect substitution.

More than a third say that they are opposed to the use of animals in any experiment because of the importance that they place on animal welfare.

In similar experiments, animals with less NPAS4 in the nucleus accumbens took more time to form those early connections between environmental cues and cocaine, but they still sought the drug just as often during later simulated relapse.

Not only was Miller right, but the rule change consistently caused twice as many neurons in the prefrontal cortex to fire than in the more simplistic experiments where the task required the animal to just hold a picture in mind.

Dennis Turner, an evolutionary biologist who studies companion animals at the Institute for Applied Ethology and Animal Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland, says the experiment only loosely resembles real - life adoptions, so more work needs to be done before he's convinced.

Shettleworth calls the study «provocative,» but insists that further experiments with more animals are needed before Santino's behavior can be interpreted as advance planning.

But its importance in the more immediate regulation of sleep, like when a bright light wakes someone up, remained debatable because the experiments needed to show its role in a living animal were essentially impossible.

Nonetheless, there is more to do; all institutions which conduct or fund animal experiments should have a clear statement online, explaining how and why they do this, in order that the public can understand the important role of animals in research.»

Despite a dearth of human studies, more than 400 experiments have been done since the early 1970s to determine how cell phone radiation affects animals, cells and DNA.

As for the animal model, the researchers hope to now conduct experiments in monkeys or other species that more closely resemble humans.

That experiment failed when bacteria in the soil consumed more oxygen than expected, killing off plants and animals and sickening the residents.

The texts say they are «guilty» of performing animal experiments; Corsini is said to «have tortured and killed animals for more than 30 years.»

Signs of neuronal damage around plaques also varied depending on the APOE variant the animals received, and experiments in a different Alzheimer's model in which plaques appear more slowly showed that injection of APOE4 increased levels of free, soluble A-beta in the fluid that bathes the brain.

Using clinical, genetic, and gene expression data as filters to distinguish genes whose copy number alteration causes cancer from those for whom copy number changes are incidental, the team whittled down their list from 14,000 to a more manageable number, each of which they systematically tested using genetic experiments in animals.

The case is in keeping with the recent European trend of increasingly stringent regulations for animal research; most notably, a September 2007 petition in the European Parliament to end all nonhuman primate experiments gained support from more than half of its members.

The sensitization experiment should result in a forceful tail contraction to a tail touch, the result of the animals learned reaction to a more intense stimulus, in this case an electric shock.

In an experiment, female crickets given gifts prior to mating took up about one and a half times more sperm than those who received none, finds a paper in this month's Animal Behaviour.

This should also lead to a reduction in the number of laboratory animals needed because traditional molecular biological methods merely produce snapshots and require many more experiments.

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

Numerous experiments with genetically altered mice and rats have shown that when natural brain compounds, called endocannabinoids, are missing or their receptors are blocked, the animals are more susceptible to pain, can not control their appetites, have trouble handling anxiety and are less able to cope with stress.

The results indicate that the highest number of new hippocampal neurons was observed in rats that ran long distances and that also had a genetic predisposition to benefit from aerobic exercise: Compared to sedentary animals, HRT rats that ran voluntarily on a running wheel had 2 - 3 times more new hippocampal neurons at the end of the experiment.

Scientists see the term in a more positive light, using animal chimeras in a range of developmental biology and stem cell experiments.

More human research and animal experiments are needed to understand which components are the most harmful and why, said Marie Lynn Miranda, dean of University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment and director of the Children's Environmental Health Initiative.

In experiments described in a paper published online today in Cell, the researchers gave mice a molecule that blocks the insulin receptor on cells, tricking the animals» bodies into reacting as if they needed more insulin and producing more β cells.

Martinez - Trujillo, a member of Western's renowned Brain and Mind Institute, notes that most spatial memory experiments include animal models being tested in actual, real - world mazes while humans are assessed virtually, using computer screens, more often than not in a two - dimensional setting.

Memory T cells can be triggered more readily than naive lymphocytes, which was not taken into account by pre-clinical animal experiments conducted thus far.

Rigorous experiments in animals have given way to clinical trials of drugs that target the HD gene in people, and there are more techniques for decreasing or eliminating huntingtin on the horizon.

Scientists have used a cloned dog to create four more dogs in an experiment to find out what happens when animals are re-cloned.

In a laboratory experiment, scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel showed that younger animals already eat less and grow more slowly at only slightly elevated carbon dioxide concentrations.

More than half of pregnant women in the Western world report intake of mild analgesics, and some of these drugs have been associated with anti-androgenic effects in animal experiments.

In experiments by Nadal and his colleagues, animals exposed to BPA ended up with insulin resistance more often than other animals did.

Far from replacing animal testing, computer simulation is leading to smarter experiments — and the need for more animals.

More than 6,000 papers have been published on these so - called beta glucans, but almost all the data about preventing infections had come from petri dish or lab animal studies, until a few years ago when a series of experiments on athletes showed beneficial effects — but that was in marathon runners.

Experiments by Prof Walter Veith demonstrated that the more dairy protein animals were given with food the weaker their bones.

For other people who are further along in their healing journey, juice might spike too much of their blood sugar, so they may want to bring more fiber into their diet, and they may even want to experiment bringing in aspects of the ketogenic diet including, perhaps, some animal protein.

Do not be afraid to experiment, try to combine prints with plaid, plants, animals and more.

Borgi said a yet - to - be published follow - up experiment, in which both children and adults judged the cuteness of animal and human pictures with manipulated facial traits (more or less infantile), similarly found «no effects of having dogs at home but a statistically significant effect of cat ownership.»

This produces the paradox that while far fewer animals are used per experiment now than before 2000, more experimentation than ever before is being done.

Of most concern to animal advocates is that the numbers of animals used in experiments in the U.K. increased 37 % between 2000 and 2013, including an 8 % jump in 2012 alone, after more than 20 years of tapering off.

The needs of modern game prototyping is its own animal and more closely follows scientific experiments than traditional models of game development.

Starting out with painting, Toivonen worked with different techniques, such as oil and charcoal on canvas and chalk on chalkboard, eventually experimenting towards a more conceptual outcome, using him self or a dead animal as means of painting.

Finally, this game feels like it completes a list of experiments Nintendo has tried on mobile, with Super Mario Run effectively being a premium app, Fire Emblem relying heavily on Gacha and Animal Crossing using a more tried and trusted impatience mechanism to monetize.