Sentences with phrase «of nonhuman»

This occurred even though these children's mothers showed almost none of the postnatal benefits observed for those visited during pregnancy and infancy (such as reduced welfare dependence, substance abuse, criminal behavior, and child abuse and neglect).8 The mechanisms through which these beneficial effects occurred will be examined in future reports, with a focus on the alteration of maternal prenatal health and the children's corresponding neuropsychological functioning, 22,23 as well as prenatal stress, given that stress during pregnancy affects the social and neuromotor development of nonhuman primates.24, 25

In this episode of the legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we talk with pioneering animal rights lawyer Steven M. Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, author of four books about animal rights, and lecturer at several law schools.

The value of nonhuman life forms is independent of the usefulness these may have for narrow human purposes.

But I've also come to see substantial merit in the emerging concept of nonhuman personhood, having worked with Pace University students and faculty members in trying to pass legislation in New York banning circuses from using elephants, and absorbing much about animals» feelings and rights from writers and scientists like Carl Safina.

[exploits of the nonhuman] is a project working towards the erasure of this binary.

Showing the intimacy between the artist and the cat, Infinity Kisses questions the central role of the nonhuman in the artist's erotic universe and raises questions of interspecies communication.

One of her ongoing interests concerns the ways that humans represent and act upon the animal world, and the autonomy of nonhuman creatures in spite of these attempts to enculturate them.

Areas of interest include the crossovers between art and science, computer generated imagery, and the use of nonhuman actors in art.

Fertile ground of forms, the garden inspires artists with morphologies and fantastic metamorphoses revealing the intelligence of a nonhuman world.

She has developed a gift for getting into the minds of nonhuman animals, for understanding their sensibilities, sensitivities and fears, and shares insights in this 2009 book.

It's a combination of statutory and case law in which the nature — legal, social or biological — of nonhuman animals is an important factor.

«Together we celebrate the human - animal bond in respect and admiration of the many roles of nonhuman animals in our lives, of our profound familiar relationships with them, and of our shared genuine love for many of them,» he said.

Ani Sipos (Class of 2018), from Abita Springs, La., will do an internship in medicine and management of nonhuman primates at the Mannheimer Foundation in Homestead, Fla.; and

A significantly higher percentage of those in the intensive - outreach group reported knowing at least 1 way to get help for their companion animals and that the caregiver - defined general well being of nonhuman animals in their neighborhood was better during the previous year.

With help from Professor Randall Abate and their co-sponsor, the Federalist Society, they presented The Legal Battle on Personhood Debate, featuring Steve Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, and Bob Kohn, fellow at the Center for Great Ideas.

«Domestic animals are neither a real nor full part of our world or of the nonhuman world... They exist forever in a netherworld of vulnerability, dependent on us for everything and at risk of harm from an environment that they do not really understand... We may make them happy in one sense, but the relationship can never be «natural» or «normal.»

Some believe in the «micro-evolution» of nonhuman species while others accept evolution as part of a divine order.

That is, all three of those nonhuman characters were actually constructed by prop makers and captured on camera just like any of their human co-stars.

The concept of the nonhuman is an inseparable component of Asian American identity construction, deriving from a historical racialization of Asians as a subspecies.

In this talk, I will discuss the progress made from two lines of neuroscience research toward this goal involving pairs of nonhuman primates, presented with specific empirical results from the studies of social decision - making and social gaze interaction.

Many of our nonhuman primates are housed socially to European Standards, where they are able to interact with each other in a more natural environment.

With odds like that, does it make sense to use CRISPR to create countless new varieties of nonhuman species?

In contrast to evidence that the amygdala stimulates stress responses in adults, researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University have found that the amygdala has an inhibitory effect on stress hormones during the early development of nonhuman primates.

Magnitude and quality of cytokine and chemokine storm during acute infection distinguish non-pathogenic and pathogenic simian immunodeficiency virus infections of nonhuman primates.

The use of nonhuman primates to model this disease provides the most accurate representation of human Lyme disease as demonstrated in this work.

The Programs do so while upholding the highest standards of regulatory compliance and of humane and responsible treatment of nonhuman primates,» according to a statement from the Executive Offices of the Company.

YEMASSEE, S.C. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Alpha Genesis, Inc., a leading provider of nonhuman primate research products and services, has embarked on a further expansion program to more fully leverage its primate expertise, research design and integration skills to deliver first - to - market innovations with European clients.

Using our deep understanding of nonhuman primate solutions and our product development expertise, Alpha Genesis is positioned to take a leading role in the development of new product extensions throughout Europe,» according to a statement from Senior Alpha Genesis Management.

Clearly, the benefits of nonhuman primate research to the well - being of the world's human population are varied and many.

When athletes inject genes, they put foreign material — a virus carrying the gene or pieces of nonhuman DNA attached to the gene — into their bodies.

Keep your study running on time with a continuous supply of nonhuman primate research models.

Research interests: Molecular forensics, Systematics, Population genetics, Phylogeography of nonhuman primates

The Foundation for Biomedical Research has recently published a highly informative brochure demonstrating the lifesaving benefits of nonhuman primate research, which may be downloaded by clicking here.

As a leading provider of nonhuman primates AGI fosters outstanding research results for our customers by providing primate models of only the highest quality.

For four decades, the inability of nonhuman primates to produce human speech sounds has been claimed to stem from limitations in their vocal tract anatomy, a conclusion based on plaster casts made from the vocal tract of a monkey cadaver.

«The use of nonhuman oocytes for SCNT is currently the only ethically justifiable option given the large numbers of eggs required to derive cloned human stem cell lines,» he said.

As the team reports in the December issue of PloS Biology, none of the nonhuman primates had more than one copy of the region.

«First US success of nonhuman primate gene editing.»

Hrdy has marshaled evidence from studies of nonhuman primates to make hypotheses about human sexuality.

Hauser is well - known for his research on the cognitive abilities of nonhuman animals and has been an admired teacher and mentor, as well as the author of several popular books on animal behavior.

Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) are the most northerly species of nonhuman primates in the world, and have adapted to extremely cold winters.

Shut out of a prelaw seminar in her freshman year at Harvard, she took a psychology class that ultimately led her to the study of nonhuman primates.

Animal research is a hot - button issue in the United Kingdom, and the use of nonhuman primates (NHPs) is particularly sensitive.

Several groups of nonhuman primates including macaques, chimps, and capuchins have found a way to use rocks to secure new food sources.

However, it and other animal groups were less happy with other aspects of the changed directive, especially moves to allow the reuse of animals and the use of nonhuman primates in experiments not directly linked to life - threatening or debilitating diseases.

The U.S. patent office has been reluctant in the past to issue patents covering human material, and Geron's U.S. application only covers cloning of nonhuman mammals.

«The most important [issue is] the removal of restrictions on the use of nonhuman primates and the ability to reuse animals,» said Simon Festing, chief executive of Understanding Animal Research, a British advocacy group promoting the need for humane animal research.

That same month, Congress included language authored by Roybal - Allard in its 2016 spending bill that strongly encourages NIH to perform an ethical review of its nonhuman primate research.

Notes Snowdon, «The benefit of the nonhuman primate model is that we can control and know the developmental and social histories of our study subjects, to carry out studies not possible in humans.»

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