Sentences with phrase «on lab rats»

His claim that animal protein is unhealthy is supported primarily by an experiment on lab rats infected with hepatitis C virus and fed casein, a highly processed form of one of the protiens found in milk.

But a study on lab rats who got hooked on alcohol and were then put through detox, showed that one particular protein was responsible for the retention and revival of these memories.

Gold and his colleagues began their research on lab rats believing that neurotransmitter fluctuation modulated memory formation.

20 Still, do you ever get the feeling that some scientists are just taking out their stress on lab rats?

Not exact matches

Testing the titanium sub-oxides on zebrafish (the aquatic cousin of lab rats) showed it to be toxic when ingested; the toxicity was significant in tissue not exposed to sunlight.

I sometimes feel like I have to treat myself like a lab rat to keep my brain on track.

A comparable study, she says, may find that lab rats also do not lose hippocampal cells — and thus redeem them as a research tool in studies on the link between alcoholism and memory loss.

To find out if tweaking current overdose protocols could prevent fatal liver damage, Duke mathematicians Lydia Bilinsky and Mike Reed and Duke biologist Fred Nijhout developed a mathematical model of acetaminophen metabolism, based on previous studies of lab rats given high doses of the drug.

Last year, Feng C. Zhou of Indiana University found that when pregnant lab rats consumed a lot of alcohol, the epigenetic marks on their embryos changed dramatically.

In the lab of Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Francine Einstein (not a descendant) has given an experimental drug to 30 rats while shining a light on their visceral fat.

Last week, the U.S. government plunked down about $ 60 million in new money to have three labs — one academic center and two private companies — race ahead on the rat genome.

A large number of lab studies using rats and mice exposed to high doses of BPA failed to show measurable effects on key aspects of reproductive development, function and behaviour.

«Early exposure to too much manganese causes attention deficits in rats: Findings in lab study support concerns about adverse effects on children of exposure to too much manganese early in development.»

The George lab has made seminal contributions to the field including: discovering a novel population of neurons in the brain of humans, rats and mice that are involved in nicotine dependence, identifying neuronal ensembles responsible for nicotine and alcohol addiction, and unveiled the cellular and molecular changes associates with long term use of nicotine, cocaine, methamphetamine and alcohol use on the brain.

I looked each video (very well made) and also realize they use broader simpler but still concise enough terminology, that»S really great to increase reach and be more «approachable» because sometimes regular everyday people on the street don't know all or have heard the mumbo jumbo jargon in biogerontology (they will think you are a pompous alien nerd - stuck up who thinks he knows more because he was like a lab rat in his lab books studying aging; on top of that they will more Resentful towards you for Daring to Question their Life beliefs on Life and Death by your» 2 - cents worth knowledge (couldn't give a f...)»

He will get the truth and fix the current system of allowing the drug companies to use our children as free lab rats to test their pricy, poisonous meds on.

George and colleagues trained lab rats to self - administer and caused some of the animals to become dependent on alcohol.

Tests on human beta cells in the lab showed that the hormone had the same effect as in isolated rat beta cells.

Rats live a few years on average in labs and develop cataracts around age 2.

«There have been lab studies on rats who eat sugar where the rats will actually bite investigators when they take it away because they're so angry.»

Found to cause cancer in lab rats in the 1970's, consequently the FDA imposed a warning label on saccharin products but after a 3 - decade long effort bt Monsanto to reverse this ruling, in 2001 they won and American consumers lost.

They carried on the experiment for two years, roughly a full lifetime for a lucky lab rat, but they stopped the aflatoxin after six months (when the rats were seven months old, and thus mature adults) because the low - protein rats were keeling over dead left and right:

In Dr. Campbell's lab experiments, the rats seeded with aflatoxin that were on vegetable diets did NOT develop cancer but the one's fed milk protien (also seeded with the toxin) DID develop cancer.

Most of the research that we have reviewed on cranberries and blood sugar has involved rats and mice in a lab setting.

A 2010 Princeton University study that compared the health of lab rats fed both sugars found those on a steady diet of HFCS gained far more weight, even though their caloric intake was the same.

In this sci - fi thriller, based on a novel by Michael Crichton, a scientist decides to be the lab rat in an experimental surgery to control his violent tendencies.

And here is Barletta's take on the «Playtest» episode, in which poor Wyatt Russell learns the downside of being a human lab rat for the video game industry.

We open on an unknown kid's secretive cell phone video filming of her mother getting ready for bed, followed by the mistreatment of a pet hamster as a lab rat, and finally video of her mother passed out on the sofa — just prior to an ambulance being called.

If you town isn't on the list it means that your child is being used as a «lab rat» without your permission.

The researcher snuck into his lab one night and labeled rats «bright» or «dull» using signs on their cages.

And located on TCC's West Campus, the vet tech program sports a 20,000 squarefoot teaching facility with classrooms, clinical laboratories, a treatment area for large animals with stalls for cattle restraint, and a small animal treatment area with six wet tables to examine and treat small animals like dogs and cats, and lab animals like rabbits, rats and mice.

Depending on your career goals you may also care for lab animals including mice, rats and guinea pigs or zoo, exhibition and exotic animals such as eagles, lizards, snakes, owls, vultures, eagles, hawks and all sorts of wildlife.

This also is prompting a drift away from science relying so heavily on artificially inducing infirmities in lab animals, like mice and rats, in order to examine those ailments, he added.

For example, on the label of one brand of low - protein food blocks made for lab rats, the first six items listed are wheat middlings, ground wheat, ground corn, corn gluten meal, calcium carbonate and soybean oil, followed by 26 added supplements.

Utilizing the PS4 DualShock light bar in Tiny Brains, you can tell which character you and your fellow lab rats are playing based on the corresponding controller colors.

They mention that the study would ONLY involve research done on the effects on humans (but then throw in studies showing that lab rats exhibit no long - term adverse effects).

• Lab Technician - Branson's Laboratories - Los Angeles, CA - 2015 to presento Conduct tests and experiments using the most advanced technology availableo Work directly with test subjects, educating them on standard procedures, what to expect, and potential risks, receiving informed consent with documentationo Contribute data for over 25 studies with published findings in peer - reviewed journalso Maintain a proper laboratory work environment and train newer staff and those in other areas of expertise in appropriate protocol • Graduate Research Assistant - University of Denver - Denver, CO - 2007 - 2017o Performed experiments and investigations under the direct supervision of the lead scientists and professorso Aided lead scientists and / or head researchers in collecting and interpreting information for their projectso Recorded data and results, and collected relevant information for the official reportso Directed a group of 11 biomed students through a research project for light therapy on rats

The traditional «behaviorist» approach of punishing misbehavior and rewarding good behavior is based on animal research conducted in the 1940s and «50s modifying the behavior of lab rats and is not an appropriate treatment paradigm for use with children and families, although concepts regarding the communication of authority hierarchies remain valid.

Mother — child interactions were coded by two independent raters previously trained on the EA coding system in order to reach satisfactory reliability with the Biringen's lab.

I am glad that the healthcare system is not run this way, because it would be largely populated with unqualified wannabes with a pulse due to fail before they have learned much about their profession as they experiment on their patients like newbie lab workers let loose in an anything - goes lab testing rats for disease control... and quitting because most of the rats die before their careers die.