Sentences with phrase «new types of animals»

Then man was created as well as new types of animals, birds and other living creatures.
Once scanned by the 3DS NFC readers, cards will offer players a new type of Animal Crossing experience by inviting additional animals to houses that they've decorated.
In 1997, a small group of volunteers, motivated by the unnecessary deaths of thousands of adoptable pets in our local shelters, recognized that Washoe County needed a new type of animal rescue facility — a facility dedicated to giving the dogs and cats at our municipal animal control shelter a second chance at life before their time ran out.
In Brazil a new type of animal shelter is in operation.
America for Animals is a new type of animal welfare organization — one that aspires to give everyone the power to help animals.
Once scanned by the 3DS NFC readers, cards will offer players a new type of Animal Crossing experience by inviting additional animals to houses that they've decorated.

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Other dolls that will stimulate new types of play are miniature dolls or figures like small people (such as the Fisher Price Little People sets) or farm animal sets.
Rather than penalising certain breed types, which compromises the welfare of the animal, Dogs Trust wants to see a clear legislative focus on «deed not breed» and a new dialogue on the social problem of «dangerous owners»..
The types of tests carried out on animals often involve trialling new medical innovations.
Scientists at Duke Health who developed the new model also discovered that targeting a brain receptor in mice with this type of autism could ease repetitive behaviors and improve learning in some animals.
The study provides a new understanding of how, billions of years ago, the complex cell types that comprise plants, fungi, but also animals and humans, evolved from simple microbes.
In some 3000 elderly people, Nir Barzilai of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, and his colleagues plan to conduct a trial in which half the subjects would get a placebo and half would get an old (indeed, ancient) drug for type 2 diabetes called metformin, which has been shown to modify aging in some animal studies.
The researchers also found that arteries and veins from the macaques» hearts grew into the new heart tissue, the first time it has been shown that blood vessels from a host animal will grow into and nurture a large stem - cell derived graft of this type.
The court ruling, won by the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York, commits the FDA to reconsider a ban first proposed in 1977 on the non-therapeutic farmyard use of penicillin and two other types of antibiotics called tetracyclines in animal feed.
The new method may make some types of gene therapy easier and could be a boon for researchers hoping to control gene activity in animals, scientists say.
Children hear as much sophisticated information about animals when parents read picture book stories about animals as when they read flashcard - type animal vocabulary books, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo.
Although the original paper classified the animals as a type of theropod known as a tetanuran, the new analyses included no tetanurans.
All three animal types did equally well until Wolf introduced a new one that could learn about the behavioural patterns of others.
«We are rapidly losing big, spectacular animals to an entirely new type of trade driven by criminalised syndicates, and the world is not yet taking it seriously,» she says.
The researchers hope these findings will aid in developing new treatments by using animal models that more closely represent the types of mutations apparent in the vast majority of patients with enchrondromas.
The find suggests a new type of interaction between humans and animals in this era, says Chaix.
This study is the first of a new article type: Telemetry Case Reports, being published by Animal Biotelemetry, which hopes to highlight small pilot studies on single individuals or very limited samples.
(1) However, while previous research on humans and other animals has shown that certain types of learning, like conditioning, can occur during sleep, (2) this study reveals that we can also memorize new representations and objects (here auditory «objects») while dozing.
Chief Scientific Officer at Avacta Animal Health, Kevin Slater, said: «The collaboration we have with the University of Leicester's Department of Mathematics is having a dramatic impact on the types of new tests that we can offer to vets and their owners.
Checking the types of animal bones at other early Homo fossil sites out of Africa could show whether the mix of prey species changed when hominins colonized a new site, supporting a «naïve prey» effect.
New research finds that livestock emissions are on the rise and that beef cattle are responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than other types of animals.
Unbeknownst to each other, they both caught the same type of animal in their respective traps and immediately knew they were looking at a new species.
«We believe our study has the potential to open a complete new field of investigation in modern neuroscience by demonstrating that even the simplest functions of the motor cortex, such as creating body movements, are heavily influenced by the type of social relationships among the animals participating,» said senior author Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D..
Earlier this year he and his colleagues identified a new type of human pluripotent stem cell that seems to be especially good at contributing to animal embryos.
With their choanoflagellate - like choanocyte cells and a second type of cell, an archaeocyte, that can shift shape and function as needed to absorb food, secrete new skin, or reproduce, they became the first multicellular animals.
Now, researchers say they've found hints of a new type of foul play: bacteria stealing genes from their animal hosts.
While scientists have intensively researched links in plumage patterns between the common cuckoo and Eurasian sparrowhawk, the new research shows that this type of impersonation of a more dangerous animal — called «Batesian mimicry» — may be far more widespread in cuckoos.
The study provides new details of how, billions of years ago, complex cell types that comprise plants, fungi, but also animals and humans, gradually evolved from simpler microbial ancestors.
A new animal study, published in Scientific Reports on Feb. 12, reveals insight on how a special type of dietary fibre, known as prebiotic, impacts the mother's gut microbiota and may be one factor in curbing obesity in moms and their babies.
A team of Japanese scientists has discovered a new species of polychaete, a type of marine annelid worm, 9 - meters deep underwater near Japan's Syowa Station in Antarctica, providing a good opportunity to study how animals adapt to extreme environments.
A new coronavirus that has sickened 14 people, killing eight of them, can slip into cells in many types of animals, a new study shows.
University of Calgary researchers Raylene Reimer, professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, and PhD student Heather Paul, in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology graduate program in the Cumming School of Medicine, have published a new animal study that describes how a special type of dietary fibre known as prebiotic impacts the gut microbiota and may be one factor in reducing obesity in mom and baby.
To test whether the cells would maintain their multipotency in living animals, the researchers transplanted them into mice whose white blood cells had been depleted, and showed that the new cells could expand and differentiate into various types of white blood cells.
A team at the OU's Integrated Waste Systems (IWS) research group is working on an ambitious partnership worth around # 250,000 with a UK SME, and funded by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to develop a new type of biodegradable single - use plastic carrier bags that is recyclable, biodegradable and will have no harmful effects on plants or animals.
«The increase in animal size is normally linked to improvements of an environmental type (for example to new ways of feeding) or of a genetic type (for example, by importing larger animals).
New research is revealing details about how the exoskeleton of a certain type of deep - sea shrimp allows the animal to survive scalding hot waters in hydrothermal vents thousands of feet under water.
Now, a new study suggests that dogs also have this type of memory, indicating that the talent may be more common in other animals than previously recognized.
Although further refinement and testing is needed, Dr. Burgess said the new techniques have the potential to speed the production of many different types of transgenic animal models that will shed new light on human development and disease.
Including sponge - like animals (850 to 635 million years ago, which pre-date the end of the hypothesized Snowball - Earth - type Marinoan glaciation — 2010 discussion at: Maloof et al, 2010; NSF press release; Hillary Parker, News at Princeton, 2010; and James O'Donoghue, New Scientist, August 17, 2010), worms, molluscs, and arthropods (joint - footed animals), invertebrates are among the most successful animals today.
Previous studies of this type relied on microscopic examination of tissue samples from sacrificed animals, but this new approach allows researchers to watch the life or death of cells in real time.
The Society believes that research involving the transfer of a human nucleus into an animal egg will lead to important new knowledge about cell nuclear replacement (CNR) technology and, if it were to prove possible to produce embryonic stem cells by this route, would increase understanding of how to programme these cells to develop into different tissue types.
But a certain four - legged predator, the spotted hyena, seems to know the benefits of this type of social bonding instinctively, according to a new study from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) that considers the structural factors affecting the social network of these animals.
have discovered a new kind of glycan — a type of sugar chain — that survives even in a 4 million - year - old animal fossil from Kenya, under conditions where ancient DNA does not.
Among these achievements are the development of new techniques for classifying different types of neurons; automated methods for creating wiring diagrams of the connections between cells in the mammalian brain; new ways of recording and manipulating the electrical activity of hundreds, even thousands, of cells simultaneously; and, advanced microscopes that allow researchers to visualize the activity of all the cells in the brains of small animals.
Now, a new animal study conducted at UT Southwestern Medical Center shows that fasting can inhibit the progression of the most common type of childhood leukemia — a truly exciting finding.
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