Sentences with phrase «protect animal researchers»

On Monday, a U.K. court convicted four animal - rights activists of threatening companies that supply an animal testing laboratory, a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks.

In a verdict that U.K. scientists see as a turning point in efforts to protect animal researchers against illegal attacks, a British court yesterday convicted four people of conspiring to blackmail companies that supply an animal testing laboratory.

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«Researchers and managers should consider comprehensively the divergent needs and behavioral responses of those protected animals to livestock and other human activities.

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.

Even if researchers could protect large numbers of Tasmanian devils with a vaccine that was 100 percent effective, those animals» immunity would not be passed on to their offspring; any vaccination program would need to go on indefinitely, a formidable challenge.

When the researchers injected mice with antibodies from vaccinated people in the study, the animals were protected against subsequent exposure to Zika virus, unlike mice that were injected with antibodies from participants who received placebo.

In a new animal study, University of Missouri researchers examined how the development of obesity and insulin resistance contribute to bone - fracture risk and whether exercise prevents weight gain and diabetes and protects bone health.

When the researchers instead asked people whether they had eaten any of the animals in their lifetime, 95 % reported having eaten a protected species, the vast majority of which were lemurs, according to an analysis published online this week in PLoS ONE.

When researchers transferred antibody - rich serum from vaccinated to unvaccinated mice, the unvaccinated animals were also protected from later H5N1 infection, an indication that the protection came from antibodies rather than from other immune system components.

Australian researchers used computerized tomography scans of the head of a great white shark accidentally killed in a commercial fishing net (great whites are a protected species) to construct a model of the animal's jaw musculature.

And in a study of monkeys, researchers discovered that a cytomegalovirus - based vaccine protected 50 percent of animals from infection by simian immunodeficiency virus.

Insight into this mechanism led the researchers to design new peptides — snippets of the human B7 - 2 receptor protein — that powerfully block the binding of a superantigen to its costimulatory receptor targets, and thereby protect against lethal toxic shock, as they showed in animals.

The researchers noted that the vaccine also protects the camels from the related virus that causes camelpox, which is similar to smallpox in humans and can be deadly in the animals.

In order to understand and protect these animals, the researchers quantified larval dispersal because the larval stage is the only time these creatures can freely move through the ocean via the currents.

Wildlife researchers are now fighting back, working to identify and understand the deadly pathogens and testing ways to protect the remaining healthy animals.

«Plants have evolved defense mechanisms to protect themselves, such as thorns, bitter - tasting berries, and in the case of certain types of grass, by harbouring toxic fungus deep within them that can be dangerous or even fatal for grazing animals,» says York U Biology Professor Dawn Bazely, who worked with University of Cambridge researcher Andrew Tanentzap and York U researcher Mark Vicari on the project.

Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have developed new potential vaccines that protect animals against the bacteria that causes the deadly plague.

The researchers now plan to test whether ebselen can protect the brains of animal models of stroke.

Now, researchers at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and their colleagues have shown that amyloid - β can protect against yeast and bacterial infections in two animal models, as well as in cultured human cells.

With the understanding that eating plants protects our DNA, and eating animals may damage it, as I talked about in previous reviews, this year Slovakian researchers measured the number of DNA breaks in vegetarians compared to meat - eaters, led by a Dr. Krajcovicová - Kudlácková — Dr. K!

In another study, researchers found that boron supplements can increase bone formation and help to protect against osteoporosis in animals.

Researcher Rosalind Wulzen discovered that this substance protects humans and animals from calcification of the joints — degenerative arthritis.

By eliminating Insulin 2 in animals, the researcher noticed they could give them all the food they wanted and they were protected from obesity.

In a 2018 study done by researchers from The Ohio State University, it was found that nursing homes in Ohio rarely had any policies or protocols set in place to protect the residents and animals.

No one can swim with whales and / or dolphins, except for scientific researchers and these laws are instituted to protect these animals.

Given that there are more hedgehogs in urban areas than in bucolic settings, researchers at the University of Hamburg, Germany wanted to explore what city life was like for the animals in order to help better protect them.