Sentences with phrase «of altering their animals»

At the CCSPCA, we understand that people realize the importance of altering their animals.

Friends for Life prefers to get to the source of the problem through spaying and neutering all animals we take in, and educating the public about the importance of altering their animals.

SEAACA is a strong proponent of altering animals.

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Minor episodes are added to explain details upon which Scripture is silent» the sons» wives are sent to distant lands to gather pairs of animals, and it is the giants, mentioned briefly before Noah appears, who provide the timber for the Ark» but nothing in the account is altered.

A large area of historic Christian theology would have been completely altered if ideas of atonement, especially as related to the blood of Christ, had not been carried over from primitive concepts associated with animal sacrifice.

Machines have radically altered the nature of work, largely by eliminating man as a source of animal power and by reducing to a minimum the routine and repetitive types of work that men must perform.

I blame all of todays problems on the Christians and the believers for no longer sacraficing live animals on the alter.

Say we have a population of animals which has to meet some new challenge offered to it by an altered environment; there may be some individuals in the population whose development is changed by the environment in a way which makes them better able to deal with the challenge — they show a capacity for adaptive modification.

Whitehead notes that the upward thrust of evolution has produced animals increasingly able to adapt the environment to themselves (FR 4 - 5), and this suggests that «adaptation» concerns not only an occasion's mode of responding to a given world but also its mode of altering the world beyond itself.

Where is the clear line in a progression from (1) using animal insulin to treat diabetes, to (2) using gene remodeling techniques to grow insulin in a host bacterium that will reproduce rapidly and from which a plentiful supply of insulin can be harvested, to (3) genetic surgery to replace the defective gene in a person diagnosed as diabetic, to (4) genetic surgery immediately after fertilization in order to replace the defective gene and alter the germ cells which would otherwise have transmitted the disease to one's offspring?

In genetic modification (or engineering) of food plants, scientists remove one or more genes from the DNA of another organism, such as a bacterium, virus, or other plant or animal, and «recombine» them into the DNA of the plant they want to alter.

Animals studies show us that regularly separating baby from mother alters the brain (the first 10 days of life for rats is comparable to the first 6 months for human babies).

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

The paper found that the mere presence of men in the lab induced such intense stress in rodents that it altered how the animals reacted to pain.

The door to creating designer species blew open in March when scientists announced the first successful demonstration of genetically altered animals passing their tweaked DNA automatically to their progeny.

And so scientists began to wonder how they might alter vegetable oils to get some of the benefits of saturated fats, without the animal by - product.

Further studies in animal models and patients (with altered TRPM7 channel function) have been initiated, in order to evaluate the efficacy and safety of magnesium as a therapeutic for this disease.

The study, published in the journal G3: Genes Genomes Genetics, adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that domestication alters animals» reactivity to stress.

In a separate experiment in anesthetized mice, the scientists «steered» the target area of the TI, without moving the electrodes on the animals» scalps, by altering the relative amount of current in each of the two high - frequency fields.

DNA extracted from the bones of an extinct bison shows that the environment influenced the way the animal's genes worked without altering the genetic code.

One concern raised by the human brain organoid implants «is that functional integration [of the organoids] into the central nervous system of animals can in principle alter an animal's behavior or needs,» said bioethicist Jonathan Kimmelman of McGill University in Montreal.

He reports that Advanced Cell Technology plans to clone genetically altered animals whose neural tissue would be immunologically compatible with that of humans.

Now, new techniques such as gene editing mean that scientists can probe and alter the genes of any animal.

And even if we can make this work, there's still the potential problem of whether animals with altered DNA can be safely controlled.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

New research using ancient animal depictions tracks the collapse of Egypt's ecological networks one extinction at a time, offering a glimpse into how climate change and human impacts have altered the structure and stability of ecosystems over millennia.

And the outcomes «may alter the view of hybridization in animals as some form of mistake,» comments Loeske Kruuk of the University of Edinburgh, «because it is now clear that we can not take the consequences for fitness at face value.»

More work is needed to determine whether the findings on rapamycin hold true in animal models of Leigh syndrome and other neurodegenerative diseases, and to ascertain how exactly rapamycin is altering the metabolism of the cells.

In addition, D4 causes tumors, reproductive problems, altered organ size and acts like a weak estrogen in studies of lab animals.

The effects of waste on larger animals, including birds with stomachs full of plastic, have garnered significant attention, he says, but «when you start altering [whole] populations,... that's when you get these true impacts.»

(Update, 9:26 pm Statement from New Iberia:» Nothing in the videos alter the fact that the New Iberia Research Center is in compliance with all federal standards and guidelines regarding the care and use of animals, as determined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control.»)

And we suspect that these life experiences can alter the expression of genes, and as a result, affect an animal's susceptibility to stress,» says senior author Bruce McEwen, Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology.

The deactivation of specific PFC regions significantly altered the performance of the animals: The inhibition of regions in the infralimbic cortex (IL) or the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) impeded the ability of the rats to react to external signals.

Landfills have altered animal behavior, distribution and abundance around the world in a variety of ways, from increasing abundance of storks to fragmenting populations of bears.

Their findings are the first to provide evidence that one can alter the phenotype of an animal with a epigenetic editing technology, preserving DNA integrity.

It also remains unclear how knocking down expression of certain genes in zygotes via sperm miRNA leads to altered stress response in adult animals and altered gene expression in the brain.

The result was striking: T cells from mice given virus containing native UL6 protein caused disease, while T cells of animals given the altered virus did not.

Changing the snow leopard's status will alter public perceptions of the animal.

Research in animals has hinted that antidepressants such as Prozac and Lexapro, from a class of drugs called serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), may alter certain aspects of fetal neurodevelopment.

Research on lab animals has shown some of the chemicals cause cancerous tumors and damage developing brain cells, and some can alter hormones essential to reproductive and neurological development.

Using gene therapy to insert the gene, they expressed the synthetic gene in adult mice or in zebrafish embryos, and witnessed remote activation of neurons the presence of a magnetic field through the altered behavior of the animals.

One theory for the spread of the deadly fungus is that «pollutants alter immune function of the animals, and then they're not able to fend off disease pathogens properly,» Cary said.

My plan was to alter the genetic makeup of a white animal and make it pigmented.

In a related research project, Timiras injected young and old rats with overdoses of adrenocortical hormones to test how the treatment altered their brain structure; the brain hemorrhaged and swelled, more so in the elderly animals.

The animals appear to be healthy and fertile, but the persistence of mutations over three generations means that radiation fundamentally altered the genome.

When the researchers altered the animals» eating patterns by feeding normal mice only during the light cycle (a mouse's night), the numbers, types, and activity of the bacteria shifted as well.

When using a well established model of colorectal cancer, the researchers observed that dietary emulsifier consumption was sufficient to make the animals more susceptible to developing colonic tumors because this created and maintained a pro-inflammatory environment associated with an altered proliferation / apoptosis (cell death) balance.

The effect of citronella was discovered during research into how odours alter animal behaviour conducted at the College de France in Paris.

Using gene therapy to insert the gene, they expressed the synthetic gene in adult mice or in zebrafish embryos, and witnessed remote activation of neurons in the presence of a magnetic field through the altered behavior of the animals.

The environmental ranges of many animal and plant species are starting to alter with climate change, as temperatures change and force species to migrate to more suitable climes.