Sentences with phrase «most animal researchers»

Are they better for your dog; most animal researchers will say yes.

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The bad news is that Interpol researchers found adverts selling parts of some of the most critically endangered species on earth on one of the most difficult to regulate Internet platforms,» Tania McCrea - Steele, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Global Wildlife Cybercrime Project Lead said in an Interpol press release.

Some researchers think humpbacks may be purely altruistic — meaning that they, unlike most animals and, let's be real, most people — are simply acting out of the goodness of their hearts.

Compiled by two of the most esteemed researchers in the food science industry, Leo M.L. Nollet and Fidel Toldrá, Sensory Analysis of Foods of Animal Origin identifies and quantifies the quality attributes to help those in the industry understand the importance of perceived sensory quality.

That's a sign that these animals had lost their fear of humans, even without the researchers deliberately breeding the most human - friendly mice, as scientists had done with the foxes.

For the past three decades, researchers and health workers have engaged in a similar battle against one of the most cunning viruses to afflict humanity and much of the animal world: the dread influenza virus.

Many basilosaurids were probably active hunters, similar to modern orcas, with mouths that were suited for biting and attacking, but Mystacodon has a mouth more suited for sucking in smaller animals, leading the researchers to conclude that Mystacodon most likely represents an intermediate step between raptorial and filter feeding and between the ancient basilosaurids and modern mysticetes.

The researchers tested what the webs could catch in the most direct way possible: by lobbing different prey animals at them from half a metre away.

But split apart into at least six separate groups, some of the most beloved animals on earth suddenly looked «hyper - endangered,» as one researcher put it.

Indeed, the «Cambrian explosion» — the burst of evolution about 540 million years ago that included the birth of most of the major animal groups we know today — was enabled by oxygen deprivation, the researchers say.

Researchers have found one of the oldest and most detailed fossils of the central nervous system yet identified, from a crustacean - like animal that lived more than 500 million years ago.

Now, researchers studying mice have found one of the most powerful tumor suppressor genes yet — animals lacking it have a startling 50 % chance of developing cancer.

The researchers» geographical analysis thereby points very strongly at humans as the cause of the loss of most of the large animals.

Instead, most researchers have relied on animal models to learn more about the development and function of the pancreas.

Researchers at Scripps and other institutions began testing blood samples from these individuals in animals and found that they were producing broadly neutralizing antibodies capable of eliminating most of the HIV varieties, says Crotty.

For the first time, researchers have investigated the cheetah's extraordinary sensory abilities by analyzing the speedy animal's inner ear, an organ that is essential for maintaining body balance and adapting head posture during movement in most vertebrates.

The researchers transferred a piece of tattooed skin from one mouse to another and found that, after six weeks, most of the pigment - carrying macrophages were derived from the recipient, rather than the donor, animal.

The researchers revealed that the Anopheles gambie mosquitoes are extremely genetically diverse compared with most other animal species.

Organoids are especially useful because no great animal models for CF exist, Kerem says; ferrets and pigs are sometimes used, but «they are expensive and not available to most researchers.»

Most studies of animal warning colors focus on how well they deter potential predators, but far fewer have examined whether the same signals help their bearers avoid detection by parasites, prey, or competitors, the researchers say.

Advances in genetic engineering, especially the CRISPR - Cas9 revolution, have some researchers saying it's time to start thinking seriously about which animals we might be able to bring back, and which ones would do the most good for the ecosystems they left behind.

In those days, most researchers were using fMRI on anaesthetized animals, because the animals needed to be completely still.

Remarkably, giving animals injections of lithium salts — which mimics WNT signaling by inhibiting the molecule GSK3 — or giving animals a more specific GSK inhibitor, the researchers were able to restore normal synapse and spine numbers and also improve some of the most significant psychiatric - like behavioral abnormalities in these mice.

It has given researchers faster or simpler ways to modify the DNA of crops and animals, conduct biomedical experiments, and, most controversially, genetically engineer human embryos.

The researchers compared the role of veterinarian movements on diseases spread with those of animal exchange between farms, which is recognized as the most effective transmission route for livestock infectious diseases.

«Having seen the «Tufts - Love Rex» during its excavation, I can attest to the fact that it is definitely one of the most significant specimens yet found, and because of its size, is sure to yield important information about the growth and possible eating habits of these magnificent animals,» added Jack Horner, a Burke Museum researcher who founded the Hell Creek project Wilson now leads.

In future work, the researchers hope to examine individual species to determine which ones are most likely to struggle with the changing climate, and which areas of the country are likely to be most impacted by conflicts between humans and relocating animals.

Published today in the journal Climatic Change and just ahead of Earth Hour, the world's largest environmental event, researchers examined the impact of climate change on nearly 80,000 plant and animal species in 35 of the world's most diverse and naturally wildlife - rich areas.

While most Ediacaran researchers tentatively agree that they were animals, recently, some have begun arguing that lumping all the known Ediacaran species into one kingdom or another may be too reductive, and each fossil must instead be re-assessed one by one.

«If you think about the worst invasive species, ants frequently show up on those lists, and big - headed ants are among the most problematic,» said University of Illinois entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez, who led the new study with postdoctoral researcher Bill Wills.

Earlier this year, researchers discovered that periods when the ocean had high levels of trace elements — like zinc, copper, manganese and selenium — seemed to overlap with periods of high productivity, including the Cambrian explosion, when most groups of living animals first appeared.

It's most likely, the researchers suggest, that the rare white - lipped variant of the snail hitched a ride with traders traveling from the Mediterranean region through the Pyrenees on their way to Ireland — perhaps unintentionally, in fodder for the trader's animals or, more intriguingly, as a part of the trader's food supplies.

While the animals were getting routine health assessments in the summers of 2005 and 2006, researchers collected 15 samples of poop — most straight from the anus, some out of the water.

When the researchers put cane toad tadpoles, native frog tadpoles, fish, and leeches in water containing scraps of cane toad tissue, they found that most of the native animals died within about a day (and sometimes much faster)-- even when they couldn't touch the tissue directly.

Sladek explained that some of the negative metabolic effects of animal fat that researchers often see in rodents could actually be due to high levels of linoleic acid, given that most U.S. farm animals are fed soybean meal.

At the outset of the experiment, the researchers tested the visual attention and anticipatory behavior of rats, and segregated the most impulsive animals.

The researchers aren't yet certain which animals in the mesopelagic zone are creating the sound but small bony fish that are abundant in the zone are the most likely suspects, Baumann - Pickering said.

«I've been studying these [animals] for most of my life and I've never seen anything like it,» says Ted Pietsch, a deep - sea fish researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle.

In a new study, researchers claim that parasitic lice can tell us much about the course of bird and mammal evolution, including whether the ancestors of these animals made it through a mass extinction that wiped out most of the dinosaurs.

While many researchers have examined these effects in humans as well as animals, most such studies do not assess long - term effects.

The researchers» strategy — generating disease - specific nerve cells, identifying a causative gene for developmental defects, validating the gene - specific defect in animal models, and then investigating interactions with other genes both in animal models and in humans — represents a promising new approach for understanding the mechanisms underlying some of the most intractable psychiatric illnesses.

Unlike previous research that has tried to control animal movement by applying invasive methods, most notably in insects, KAIST researchers propose a conceptual system that can guide an animal's moving path by controlling its instinctive escape behaviour.

PHENOMIN - ICS opens new opportunities for researchers in their choice of the most suitable animal model.

He is listed by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the most highly cited authors in the Plant and Animal Science category, recognition given to only the top 250 researchers in the field.

3 Sept 2012: Jacqui White, from the Institute's Mouse Genetics team, describes how our researchers are committed to treating their animals in the most humane, caring and sensitive way possible... Continue reading →

These animals recapitulate most of the cognitive and physical problems that arise in children with the disorder, and so may help researchers learn more about its biology and how to treat it.

Since several longevity mutants (such as long - lived C. elegans or Drosophilia mutants19 20) manifest defects in a signaling mechanism that normally slows the rate of autophagic waste recycling, Dröge and other researchers have postulated that the aging - associated decline of mitochondrial autophagy or «mitophagy» may be the first most limiting mechanism that determines maximum life span in most animal species, including man.21 22

When researchers severed the vagus nerve, GABA receptor levels and the animals» behavior remained unchanged after treatment with L. rhamnosus, confirming that the vagus nerve is most likely the primary pathway of communication between the bacteria in your gut and your brain.

Realizing that you can't get most men with cancer to eat even a measly five servings of fruits and veggies, researchers settled on just trying to change their A-to-V ratio — the ratio of animal to vegetable proteins.

Although abundant animal and cell studies indicate the strong anti-cancer effects of these two compounds, researchers have called for more clinical studies to be performed in order to discover the most effective ways of using them.