Sentences with phrase «moving animal models»
Great progress has been made with this technology since its invention and today even conscious free - moving animal models can be manipulated and observed in real - time.
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McDonald is working with medicinal chemists at Vanderbilt to develop more selective and potent PGD inhibitors for testing in animal models, with the ultimate goal of moving these inhibitors into clinical trials for pancreatic cancer patients.
The study is one of the first to test if the «landscape of fear» model, a scientific theory that has been used to explain how animals move and interact with the environment based on their fear of being attacked by their predators, is applicable to large open marine systems involving wide - ranging species, like sharks and turtles.
While most research studies begin in test tubes, cells grown in the laboratory and animal models before moving to humans, the opposite is true here.
«Since it's quite difficult to track microbial exposure on a daily basis, especially with humans — who move around a lot — we're exploring new animal models to see if we can ask the same questions we would about humans and get answers in more rigorous, controlled ways,» Gilbert said.
In all, the researchers used a set of mathematical models to reveal that today animals only have about 6 % of their former capacity to move such nutrients away from «hot spots» and across the oceans and land.
Moving to an animal model, they applied the nanoparticles and hydrogen peroxide topically to the teeth of rats, which can develop tooth decay when infected with S. mutans just as humans do.
In the next five to 10 years, we'll eliminate much of animal toxicology and move on to smarter systems using computer algorithms and modeling,» he says.
«I did a lot of modelling to work out how far we needed to move the mine before detonating it — for the protection of both the pipeline and the animals that we know live in that area.»
«The team will further evaluate the long - term biocompatibility of the modified insulin system in an animal model before determining whether to move to clinical trials,» says co-author Dr. John Buse, professor of medicine at the UNC School of Medicine and director of the UNC Diabetes Care Center and the NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute.
Major recent advances in understanding GVHD's underlying biology, improved animal models, better targeting of interventions, and more systematic clinical trials are finally moving beyond «accumulated sketchy information,» Pavletic says.
The decision follows recommendations from an NIH advisory panel that said in January that the agency should curb research on chimps and instead «emphasize the development and refinement of other approaches, especially alternative animal models,» and move all but approximately 50 of the chimps to sanctuaries.
This study was designed to use readily available agents in an accepted large - animal model of human heart attack with the goal of obtaining evidence that this treatment is ready to be moved into human clinical trials.»
In order to understand the biology of fossilized animals, researchers often turn to living animals with similarities that help model how extinct animals moved.
We moved to an animal model.
CRISPR not only allows researchers to create these animals faster and more precisely than before, but also to move beyond a relatively small menagerie of standard model species — fruit flies, mice, zebrafish — to create a Noah's ark of mutant dogs, pigs, primates and more.
Moving to a regional model for animal services made sense for our community, and might for yours, too.
Dr. William Puryear and the Staff at Faithful Friends Animal Hospital's involvement with their community should serve as a model for all communities that serve humans and pets alike: collaborative, socially - responsible, and forward - moving.
She later moved to Los Angeles to work as a model, and while traveling for her work, started helping out organizations in adoption and caring for animals.
After working for several decades in upstate New York doing non-invasive studies of animal models of inherited bleeding diseases, she moved to southern California in 1986 to start Hemopet, the first non-profit national animal blood bank.
But promoting U.S. - style catch - and - kill street dog population control was a non-starter in heavily Buddhist Taiwan, especially since much of the U.S. had already moved away from the traditional catch - and - kill animal control model.
By offering puppies for adoption from nearby shelters or moving to a supplies - only model, stores can save the lives of animals in search of homes, and save the breeding dogs trapped in puppy mills.»
Under Cari's leadership, TPMP has convinced pet stores in Naperville, Evanston and Chicago to stop selling «puppy - mill» animals and move to an adoption model.
After working for several decades in upstate New York doing non-invasive studies of animal models of inherited bleeding diseases, she moved to southern California in 1986 to start Hemopet, the first nonprofit national animal blood bank.
But while games like the aforementioned Chibi Robo and Animal Crossing: Heavy Home Designer seem to warrant a move to the New 3DS XL, Moffitt explains why the older models still have a place today.
In 1863, he moved into a new house in Chelsea with his new model Fanny Cornforth, and a growing menagerie of unusual animals, including a wombat, whose premature death occasioned a poem.
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