Sentences with phrase «mouse lab experiments»

In a recent study he provided evidence that the virus accidentally originated during mouse lab experiments.

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It's just like the classic behavioral conditioning «Skinner Box» experiments that train lab mice to press a lever to get a food pellet whenever a light comes on.

It is dominated by the far - seeing genius of Josh Boger, who at age 7 does experiments in a lab above his parents» garage (including sending a hapless mouse soaring aloft on a Hindenberg - type contraption he rigs up).

I used to do lab experiments on mice.

I believe we have free will, but if God already knows who will accept or reject him in advance, that makes us nothing more than mice in a great cosmic lab experiment.

«We've little mini lab mice, our kids, who are going into this huge untested experiment,» Astorino said, during an interview with public radio and television in April..

Shukla and colleagues discovered that a small drug molecule called BX795, which is sold to labs for use in experiments, helped clear HSV - 1 infection in cultured human corneal cells, in donated human corneas, and in the corneas of mice infected with HSV - 1.

«When this question came up, I said, «Well, I have no idea,»» recalls Bartke, because the mice were always killed in the lab's endocrinology experiments before reaching old age.

Would happy lab animals — rats, mice, even zebrafish — make for better experiments?

Diamond's lab circumvented this problem by creating female mice that had a key interferon gene knocked out; in a second experiment, they treated pregnant animals with an anti-interferon antibody.

«Ferritin, a protein - coated iron storage molecule, is normally found throughout the mouse and human body, but in our experiments, we modified it, placing the ferritin particles in different positions to see if we could improve our results,» says co-first author Sarah Stanley, a senior research associate in Friedman's lab.

Gould and Georgiou say that their results don't necessarily invalidate previous studies; they simply show that ketamine experiments in their lab work only when men inject the mice.

As expected, biochemical experiments in the Cheyette lab revealed that DIXDC1 mutations impaired WNT signaling in neurons from affected mice.

Unable to make his case in studies with lab mice (because H. pylori affects only primates) and prohibited from experimenting on people, Marshall grew desperate.

In an extensive sleuthing expedition that looked back nearly 20 years, two collaborating research teams contend that they have evidence that xenotropic murine leukemia virus — related virus (XMRV) resulted from the chance recombination of pieces of two mouse viruses in lab experiments and that the connections to human disease are spurious.

In experiments with lab mice, she discovered how small groups of cells dance about to form an embryo and how a layer of cells surrounding the embryo itself, previously thought of as nothing more than a protective cloak, orchestrates the formation of an embryo's body parts.

«In our mouse experiments, olive oil produced essentially identical effects as Plenish — more obesity than coconut oil, although less than conventional soybean oil — and very fatty livers, which was surprising as olive oil is typically considered to be the healthiest of all the vegetable oils,» said Poonamjot Deol, an assistant project scientist working in Sladek's lab and the co-first author of the research paper.

Their experiments with lab - grown mouse and human T - cells suggest that people with cancer who have a greater variety of such receptors may respond better to immunotherapy drugs and vaccines.

The immunological benefits from the wild mice's gut bacteria may, in part, explain a persistent problem in disease research: Why disease experiments in lab mice, such as vaccine studies, turn out very differently in humans or other animals.

Lead investigators David Burns and Ken O'Halloran at University College Cork, in conjunction with collaborator labs at the University of Calgary and Trinity College Dublin, performed experiments in mice lacking dystrophin, the muscle protein that malfunctions in DMD.

Meanwhile, academic labs waste money, mice, and other resources on experiments that, unbeknownst to them, have already been done but were never reported.

But pre-op chemo can, instead, promote metastasis, scientists concluded from experiments in lab mice and human tissue, published in Science Translational Medicine.

To find out, Einstein's George Karagiannis spent nearly three years experimenting with lab mice whose genetic mutations make them spontaneously develop breast cancer, as well as mice given human breast tumors.

«We are now able to model human blood function in so - called «humanized mice»,» said George Daley, head of a research lab at Boston Children's Hospital and the main architect of the experiment, in a statement.

Our lab has developed innovative technology to perform large scale RNAi experiments in mammalian cells and in mice.

For this study, Jabri and colleagues combined insights and data from celiac disease patients who had been cared for at the University of Chicago's Celiac Disease Center with experiments using a mouse model of the disease developed in her lab.

By examining the results of genome - wide association studies (GWAS) in conjunction with experiments on mouse and human red blood cells (RBCs), researchers in the lab of Whitehead Institute Founding Member Harvey Lodish have identified the protein cyclin D3 as regulating the number of cell divisions RBC progenitors undergo, which ultimately affects the resulting size and quantity of RBCs.

In a series of lab experiments with cell lines, human xenograft tumors in mice and primary human prostate cancer samples, the researchers demonstrated that miR - 34a inhibits prostate cancer stem cells by suppressing CD44.

This unique international event will provide the attendees with an innovative program focused on the best practices in the use of the mouse model for biomedical and basic research; this program also addresses the item of continuing professional education consistent with the new European directive requirement for lab animal protection in experiments.

Her lab's most recent work, led by HMS Instructor Cristina Aguayo - Mazzucato, started instead with very old mice, created for another experiment, whose beta cells emitted fluorescent signals.

In lab experiments, researchers found that just one touch of the TNT completely repaired the injured legs of lab mice over a three - week period by turning the skin cells of the animals into vascular cells.

The researchers did experiments with a type of lab mouse that easily puts on weight and develops diabetes [TSOD].

Well, let me be your white mouse in this lab experiment.