Sentences with phrase «only animal research»

To date, the only animal research on the neurological effects of space radiation has been done in rodents.

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«Hebrew University, home to Israel's only Faculty of Agriculture, specializes in incubating applied research in such fields as animal - free meat sources.

Stonyfield will not only be contributing funds to support AZA SAFE field work but is aiming to drive kids and their families to see animals and conservation projects first hand at zoos, aquariums, and on the ground where the research is happening.

Under the terms of the bill, the resultant embryo could only be stored for a maximum of 14 days to produce stem cells for research and could not be implanted in either a human or animal uterus.

Only by pulling back the veil of secrecy, informing citizens of the atrocities that their tax money is funding and holding experimenters accountable for abusing animals in the name of science when more reliable, cruelty - free options exist, can we hope to bring scientific research into the modern age.

We do not cover developments of interest only to specialists, such as new animal models of a disease or the opening of new science research centres.

Most of the research on the biological clocks of animals has focused on the brain, but that is not the only organ that observes a day - night rhythm.

Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.

It also notes that funding agencies and institutional review boards evaluate all animal research, only approving what they consider necessary and humane studies.

«To date, caloric restriction (CR) is the only non-pharmaceutical and non-genetic strategy that increases the lifespan of animals and provides health benefits,» the research team wrote.

Holzschuh went looking for research on this topic and found only 22 studies that tested how rock climbing might affect plants or animals.

Typical pain treatment research begins with an animal model — one that uses only male mice.

But as his research shows, animals aren't the only ones tuning in.

The traditional notion that only humans can think abstractly has been steadily chipped away by research on other animals.

Yet from 2015 to mid-2017, only 73 chimpanzees entered sanctuaries, leaving nearly 600 of the animals in labs; half were owned by the government, half by private research facilities.

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.»

Looking further into the intestinal crypts of both the transgenic and wild - type mice, the research team made what they consider a surprising finding: Not only was HMGA1 causing the stem cells themselves to self - renew or proliferate more rapidly in the transgenic animals, but it was also increasing the number of Paneth cells, a type of niche cell known to support intestinal stem cells.

Moreover, venom research has mostly neglected ancient animal groups in favor of focusing on venomous snakes and cone snails, which are both «young» animal groups that originated only recently in evolutionary timescales, approximately 50 million years ago.

«Freedom of access to information is... the only means by which research can be properly scrutinised in order to ensure the best possible outcome for people and animals,» said the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in a statement issuedanimals,» said the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in a statement issuedAnimals in a statement issued today.

Professor Andrew Scott, one of the lead authors, said: «High oxygen levels in the atmosphere at this time has been proposed for some time and may be why there were giant insects and arthropods at this time but our research indicates that there was a significant impact on the prevalence and scale of wildfires across the globe and this would have affected not only the ecology of the plants and animals but also their evolution.»

An autistic woman who as a child was recommended for institutionalization, Grandin has managed not only to enter society's mainstream but ultimately to become prominent in animal research.

As Sankaran Thayumanavan, a chemistry professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, explains, academics are often only interested in — or only funded for — solving basic research questions, while corporations like to see that a drug or device works in animals before stepping in.

All three of the exposed animals not only survived the virus but developed high amounts of protective antibodies against it, likely protecting them against future exposures (although the research team has not yet explored how long that immunity lasts).

Previous research, looking only at the order in which animals arrive at each destination, has shown that animals often find a good, or even optimal, solution but little is known about how they find that solution.

«For many years, the only «information» or images that the public could access about animal research were provided by organizations opposed to the use of animals in scientific progress.

«We've long known about biofluorescence underwater in organisms like corals, jellyfish, and even in land animals like butterflies and parrots, but fish biofluorescence has been reported in only a few research publications,» said co-lead author John Sparks, a curator in the Museum's Department of Ichthyology.

The effort, as yet confined to animal studies, is only about a decade old but has become one of the hottest areas of neuroscience research because it promises a more precise understanding of the hugely complex network of cells in the brain.

This research work is important because up to now researchers thought that only the hard parts of an animal, such as shells or bones, could be preserved.

The research on animals» collision warning systems is not only of interest to gain fundamental knowledge about animals, but also in areas such as the engineering of machines with automatic steering.

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

Specifically, the IOM committee says NIH should support only biomedical research with chimpanzees if it promises to advance public health, can not be done with another research model or ethically performed with humans, and the animals are kept in ecologically appropriate housing or habitats.

An international research paper, led by the University of Sydney, shows that the majority of micro-organisms in the termite gut is not found in any other animals and that they are not only inherited from parents but are also shared across colonies and among distantly related termite species.

«This problem is due to in - depth studies often requiring methods that can only be permitted in animals, but with our new understanding of bat sound processing, we may be able to do this research.»

If the FWS rule is enacted as proposed, that would mean permits would be required to do research on the chimps, and they would only be awarded in instances where research benefits the animals directly.

This Harvard professor has not only produced exciting findings but has also successfully communicated his research through the media and popular books such as Wild Minds: What animals really think.

That's a shame, says Ross of the Lincoln Park Zoo, who believes sanctuaries are not only better for these animals — but better for research.

By comparison, only 64 % of respondents to the ongoing (trends) survey said yes when asked if they «can accept animal experimentation so long as it is for medical research purposes.»

When the trends survey asked a question that didn't use the word «medical,» i.e., «I agree with animal experimentation for all types of research where there is no alternative,» only 47 % of respondents say yes.

Lee and Cate's research hints that this secret lever, which triggers translation of only a special subset of mRNAs — perhaps only 500 out of some 10,000 mRNAs produced by a cell — will be found to play a critical role in other diseases besides cancer, as well as in plants and animals.

Only 37 % say «it is acceptable to use animals for all types of research where there is no alternative.»

«Drugs that specifically target PGE2 pathways have already been developed and tested in animals, so our results have excellent potential for clinical translation, not only for the treatment of influenza, but other viral respiratory infections that interact with similar host immune pathways,» says senior study author Divangahi, who is also a member of the Infectious and Immunity Axis at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC).

If oxygen was a driver of the early evolution of animals, only a slight bump in oxygen levels facilitated it, according to a multi-institutional research team that includes a Virginia Tech geoscientist.

This discovery provides a significant opportunity not only to enhance our understanding of how miRNAs regulate a variety of biological processes in an important model species for studying human diseases, but can lead to further, similar research into the role that miRNAs play in animal domestication.

Research done by researchers from the Wits School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, partly done at the Monte Casino Bird Gardens in Johannesburg, has shown that puff adders not only camouflage themselves with their highly evolved visual camouflage, but they are also difficult to find by smell.

«The time from selection of the target through discovery of the antibody and completion of initial animal tests totaled only about five months,» said Hongkai Zhang, a research associate in the Lerner laboratory who was first author of the study.

No specific animal research protocol was drafted for this study, as only excess clinical samples were analyzed for diagnostic purposes.

Scientists had so far recognized only one giraffe species and up to 11 subspecies while the distinctness of each subspecies of the animal still remains unclear even after a century of research.

While much recent research has not been published in this area, there is actually a long history of studies that show: (1) there is a significant number of antigens shared between tumors and embryonic tissues (called «oncofetal antigens») and, consequently, antibodies made against tumors can also recognize embryonic tissues, and vice versa; (2) pregnancy confers some immunity against cancer (accompanied by antibody production against oncofetal antigens), not only against its occurrence but also against its growth; (3) similar to pregnancy, an immune response against cancer can be generated by vaccinating animals with embryonic tissues.

In all cases, we only use animals where absolutely necessary and where, for ethical and practical reasons, it is not possible to carry out the research in humans.

Using this animal with only 302 neurons, she has devoted her research to building the roadmap that shows how genes and the environment influence behaviors such as the response to attractive odors, temperature, touch, and food.