Sentences with phrase «performing experiments on animals»

Supporting legislation to prohibit elementary and secondary school students from performing experiments on animals which cause or could cause pain, suffering or death.

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Scientists are forced either to experiment on whole animals, which is expensive, raises ethical issues and may not predict effects in humans, or to perform tests on microscopic human cells found in tissue cultures, which have been altered to live forever and bear little relation to actual living, breathing people.

Building the Picture Much of what we know about how neurons allow animals to make sense of their surroundings began with experiments performed on the visual cortex of animals by David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel.

«The result was an extensive inhibition of tumor growth and prevention of metastasis to the lung in HER2 - positive animal models of breast cancer,» notes Navasona Krishnan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral investigator in the Tonks lab who performed many of the experiments and is lead author on the paper reporting the results.

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.

Don't take the words «research» and «study» without a grain of salt: It's often hard to draw «news you can use» from certain experiments — for example, those that aren't peer - reviewed or published in a credible journal, those that are performed on animals, or those that are purely observational — which means that other factors could be involved in the outcome.

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These experiments were performed in accordance with current legislation on animal experimentation in France.

Behavioral experiments could then be performed on animals, setting up situations and then measuring results.

The Act provides guidelines for housing, enclosures, exercise, feeding, watering, sanitation and handling, but it does not regulate the type of experiments that can be performed on animals.