Sentences with phrase «places animal scientists»

This places Animal Scientists in the 71th percentile of salary satisfaction.

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The final rules, adopted late last month, would instead place primary responsibility in the hands of animal ethics committees at individual universities and institutes, avoiding a bottleneck that scientists feared could stifle research.

On islands, scientists sometimes see a «sped - up» version of evolution — when animals are closed off from the rest of the world, in places where there are few or no predators or competitors, they are able to branch out into special adaptations, eventually forming new species.

Kasting, who is collaborating with Arne Naegel and Gabriel Wittum from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, for this research, says mathematical modeling allows scientists to test chemical compounds virtually, in place of human or animal testing.

The size and types of the largest local land animals vary greatly from place to place, prompting scientists to question what controls the success of animals of certain sizes over others.

Sci - fi fans and animal - rights activists alike have been announcing its arrival for decades, but in a world where food scientists are still trying to figure out the best ways to extend the life of cake, it's hard to imagine that meat created in a petri dish might gain a place on our dinner plates anytime soon.

It seems counterintuitive that something meant to kill or paralyze could ultimately save lives, but by studying different toxins produced by animals, scientists are gaining greater insight into how pain works in the first place.

Scientists do not yet know how the grid is generated by the neural networks in the entorhinal cortex, or how the overall map created by grid cells, place cells and other navigation cells is integrated to help animals to get from one place to the next.

The scientists said they are currently working on analyses to model the ecological role that nonhuman primates play in maintaining the diversity of astroviruses, particularly in places where they share the environment with humans and other animals.

Once implanted into the seminiferous tubules of mice (where the animals» sperm production takes place), they differentiated into what the scientists termed «germ - cell - like cells,» simply by virtue of the environment in which they were placed.

Heiko Woith and colleagues at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences say scientists must determine whether the link between the animal behavior and the earthquake is based on clearly defined rules (such as the animal's distance from earthquakes of a certain magnitude), whether the animal behavior has ever been observed and not followed by an earthquake, whether there is a statistical testing hypothesis in place to examine the evidence, and whether the animal population is a healthy, among other questions.

First, the scientists placed trays of fruit outside the animals» enclosure.

Scientists, Artists, and Conservationists Petition Bush Administration to Place 225 Plants and Animals on Endangered List

Though the research is currently limited to animals only, scientists have been able to significantly increase muscle building when muscles have been placed under loaded stretches - presumably by creating additional muscle damage and by stimulating the same gene pathways switched on by the tension of muscle contraction.

An HD slow - motion video of a Great White attacking its prey will rope students in, as will hearing scientists talk about this animal's important place in the ecosystem.

-LSB-...] According to leading canine scientists, dogs are den animals that need a personal space — a place to rest and hide in case of danger, just like their ancestors had in the wild.

There are questions, too, around labour, and the different roles played by the natural history museum (traditionally a place of dead animals not «living collections»), the scientist, and the artist.