Sentences with phrase «not laboratory animals»

The researchers, using $ 200,000 in seed money from the University of Washington, plan to use pets, not laboratory animals, for the initial study, and recruit volunteer dogs — or at least dogs whose owners volunteer them — for larger scale studies in the future.

But two new studies using different groups of people — not laboratory animals — have found that natural vitamin E is utilized twice as efficiently as the synthetic form.

Not exact matches

While some still object to cells being taken from animals and used by scientists to grow clean meat in laboratories — and some just don't like the idea of eating a «cultured» steak created by men and women in white coats — others see the lab - grown meat revolution as key to solving the environmental crisis linked to meat eating.

And Avent isn't aware of «independent laboratory studies that have measured the effect of BPA in animals,» even though the information is a Google search away.

In laboratory tests on embryonic mice engineered to not express myomerger in skeletal muscle, the animals did not develop enough muscle fiber to live.

Although the act covers animals like dogs and chimpanzees, it does not cover rodents like laboratory mice.

The U.S. National Research Council's 1996 Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals went further, prompting animal care staff to add perches, blankets to make nests, and even music and movies.

Although British researchers had discovered embryonic stem cells in laboratory animals in 1981, it wasn't until 1998 that a Wisconsin team announced it had isolated stem cells from human embryos for the first time.

The team also compared the animals» responses to the therapy's effects in laboratory cell samples and found that in vitro studies did not predict how well the viral therapy and immune response would fight tumor cells in vivo.

Investigators sent tissue and blood samples to Michael McIntosh at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Greenport, N.Y. McIntosh says he was surprised to find that the tissue samples also contained the Reston strain, which had not been previously identified in swine.

«All the sudden you can do these sorts of studies in scrub jays and other animals that are not a [laboratory] organism,» says Joseph Pickrell, an evolutionary geneticist at the New York Genome Center in New York City, who was not involved with the work.

Franco believes that the new European legislation — which would require systematic evaluation of all research involving laboratory animals in all E.U. countries, with ethical considerations a big part of the assessment — makes now a good time «to assess what [researchers] think about using animals, what effect training can have not only about their knowledge of the three R's but also how it affects their attitudes.»

«There hasn't been a good animal model for any kind of speech disorder,» says study author Wan - chun Liu, a senior research associate in Fernando Nottebohn's Laboratory of Animal Behanimal model for any kind of speech disorder,» says study author Wan - chun Liu, a senior research associate in Fernando Nottebohn's Laboratory of Animal BehAnimal Behavior.

«We might not have known urchins and six - armed sea stars were affected if lab - held animals hadn't died right in front of us,» said the study's lead author Laura Jurgens, a graduate student at UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory who earned her doctorate in May.

Be that as it may, one thing is certain — this is a golden opportunity for the development, validation, and application of alternative test methodologies and testing strategies, namely, procedures that do not rely on the use of laboratory animals.

This is not only because tests on laboratory animals can cause much suffering, but also because the relevance of the data they provide for predicting effects in humans or other animals is severely limited by differences among major species.

Gene editing techniques have the potential to treat blood disorders that run in families, such as thalassemia and sickle cell anemia, but their application has been largely limited to cells in a laboratory and not living animals.

The big limitation of studying humans, of course, is that you can't manipulate people as you can laboratory animals.

Calorie restriction dramatically extends not only the lifespan of laboratory animals, but also their «healthspan» — how long they live free of disease.

Not only from the life science research viewpoint, but also from the social concern for the welfare of laboratory animals.

«Just sequencing the gut flora gives you an inventory of the bacteria, but does not tell you how they are perceived by the host immune system,» said co-author Dr. Kenneth Simpson, professor of small animal medicine at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine whose laboratory characterized the E. coli identified in the study.

«It is a landmark paper in the evolution of animals,» says Sidney Tamm at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Hole, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the research.

By making it easier to see live exotic animals, the menagerie functioned as a «prescientific laboratory» that made obsolete earlier sources of beastly lore: illustrated encyclopedias called bestiaries that described not only elephants, lions, and crocodiles but also dragons, griffins, unicorns, and talking pigs.

However, the genetic techniques used to block Hhat in the laboratory are not possible with animal models or humans.

Experiments performed by coauthor Mireia Uribe - Herranz, PhD, a research associate in Facciabene's lab, demonstrate that when ACT was performed on genetically identical animals obtained from different vendors (Jackson Laboratory or Harlan Laboratories), which carry different microbiota, impact of the therapy was not identical.

Emil von Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasato, in Robert Koch's laboratory, find that injecting diphtheria toxin into animals produces a serum containing an anti-toxin that provides passive anti-diptheria immunity to people, introducing the use of serum as therapy and showing that immunity did not need to arise internally but could be transferred.

«How can we determine what the immune system is going to do, and then how can we control that response, not only with cells in the laboratory, but also in an animal or a patient.»

Beyond Europe, the CERBM holds a recently renewed certification from the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare granted 31 August 2011 (N ° A5403 - 01).

One potential reason for this discrepancy is that the laboratory tests used in animal models of the disease do not resemble the clinical assessments given to patients, and thus are not predictive of human memory performance.

In depth laboratory analyses can be included or not, offering at this way three types of access: only animal facilities, only laboratory facilities, and both.

Not only had Dalldorf and Sickles identified the first members of a very large group of human viruses, but they also introduced and popularized a new and inexpensive animal into the virology laboratory — the suckling mouse.

The approval follows last year's rejection of a bid by the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory (CVRL), which owns the dairy farm and the brand Camelicious, on the grounds that the country's animal - health system was not rigorous enough.

In animal studies on resveratrol itself (the purified nutrient given in intravenous form, not the food form), this phytonutrient has been determined to improve blood flow in the brain by as much as 30 %, thus greatly reducing the risk of stroke, according to the results of a laboratory animal study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

«The available data do not indicate major differences between laboratory animals and humans, therefore it must be assumed that the effects seen in animals could occur in humans as epidemiological studies in humans are insufficient to demonstrate the absence of an adverse effect of inorganic borates on fertility.

However, the Boston Children's Hospital's Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience isn't a laboratory filled with pipettes or test tubes but with colorful toys, animal murals, and brain imaging «hats» where Edwards researches how children on the autism spectrum are able to imitate in learning sLaboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience isn't a laboratory filled with pipettes or test tubes but with colorful toys, animal murals, and brain imaging «hats» where Edwards researches how children on the autism spectrum are able to imitate in learning slaboratory filled with pipettes or test tubes but with colorful toys, animal murals, and brain imaging «hats» where Edwards researches how children on the autism spectrum are able to imitate in learning situations.

A zoo is a laboratory not just for the study of animals but for the study of the human animal.

But note that laboratory animals aren't kept alive to be companions for people but to help science progress.

Covance spokeswoman Laurene Isip said the company does not obtain laboratory animals from shelters because their health history is not available.

Although animal rights activists have been fighting against animal testing in laboratories for many decades, not everyone realizes that taxpayers» hard - earned money is being used to fund cruel animal tests.

The only exceptions would be for isolated geographical regions where leptospires are not present in the environment, for dogs kept indoors or in controlled conditions, or for laboratory research animals.

If you are spending 7 percent of gross fees on laboratory, budgeting for the latest average from the American Animal Hospital Association won't automatically create changes.

If we, who so deeply care for them, do not use the appropriate words to speak and act on their behalf, to educate others, to free them from the outdated and cruel paradigm of animal ownership, animal exploitation there can be no doubt that our nation's puppy mills, backyard breeders, laboratories, factory farms and slaughter houses will not do so for us.

Thus, only those behaviors that can be shown experimentally, in a laboratory, to be modified by the environmental consequences are relevant, and if someone doesn't adhere to the Operant Conditioning model for all of their training then that person is somehow defective as an animal behaviorist.

In the U.S., these breeding facilities, as well as the laboratories where the experiments take place, are regulated by the United States Department of Agriculture — but as with puppy and kitten mills, regulating these facilities doesn't necessarily prevent animal suffering, or ensure their emotional well - being.

The need for veterinarians to participate in the running of laboratory animal facilities and ethics committees (or equivalent) is not systematically addressed (Is this still valid?).

While most shelters even then did not supply animals to laboratories, the five - day holding interval became the default standard for weaned dogs and cats throughout the U.S., except for those deemed to be incurably ill or injured and suffering, or too dangerous to keep safely.

Most people haven't read those regulations but they are written for puppy mills and laboratory animals.

Animal shelter employees know to look for tattoos, and federal law does not permit laboratories to use tattooed dogs.

Laboratory animal veterinarians must be prepared to attend to a large variety of species, most of which are not common to traditional veterinary practice.

ABC Animal Behavior Counseling, LLC is not able to perform vaccinations, de-worming, laboratory testing, surgery, or other routine veterinary services.