Sentences with phrase «rather than a rat»

«The exciting next step would be to implant these guides in humans rather than rats,» McAlpine said.

You can trust that it is manufactured at a clean factory with high standards rather than a rat infested cesspool in China.

A successful lunge for gravity, Diesel's turn as real - life Mafioso Giacomo «Jackie» DiNorscio — a man who would rather stand trial rather than rat out his associates — revealed a complex sense of swagger and insecurity.

Think Agatha Christie, rather than Rats Bats and Vats.

The dogs were the first to go; the giant rats were already implemented in the earlier beta, though both prototypes produce a growl when they're killed, rather than the rat - like squeak featured in the retail version.

Not exact matches

One day, an archetype of a gym rat — shaved head, cutoff shirt, veins in his arms like ropes — was doing side - to - side pull - ups: hands close together, looking along the bar rather than facing it, pulling up and alternating bringing his head above the bar on the right side and then the left.

(The reason for growing the organ within a rat rather than a mouse was that the scientists needed to produce enough insulin - producing cells to reverse diabetes» effects in mice.)

(132) The energy bursting from this story is admirable, but this is a long way from the problems of an averageCatholic family in Britain, who are more likely to be worrying about what the local primary school is teaching their children, rather than the best way to shoot a rat.

«They would rather have the vacant lots and rats than have minority people there,» Francis Goldin, of the Lower East Side Joint Planning Council, told the New York Times in 1994.

Rather than try to avoid the shock when the light came on, «addicted» rats just carried on eating.

In addition, kangaroo rats also have pouches, but these pouches are on the outside of their cheeks rather than on their bellies and are used for transporting seeds, not offspring.

Carmen Sandi remains cautious, since the study involved rats rather than humans; after all, brain function is just one of the many elements that influence social dynamics.

Rat chromosomes, too, are very different than the early eutherian's, but for a different reason: Their chromosomes swapped pieces between chromosomes rather than within a given chromosome.

In later decades, other scientists got much more rigorous in their study of fear, in many cases turning to rats rather than people as their test subjects.

In a series of experiments using mouse and rat models of depression reported today in Nature, Hu and her colleagues found that ketamine did affect the lateral habenula — but it was the pattern of firing, rather than the overall amount of activity, that proved crucial.

Rather than ceasing to divide, the cells of blind mole rats reach a point at which they die en masse in a bout of cell suicide that Gorbunova and her co-authors call «concerted cell death».

«In rats that have taken a lot of cocaine, craving becomes stronger rather than weaker as the withdrawal period gets longer,» Wolf says.

Because previous work in rats and monkeys has found that proteins that block the costimulatory signal can hold T cells at bay, Kim Olthoff, a transplant surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia, thought her team could achieve a targeted immune suppression by getting the transplanted organ itself — rather than proteins injected into the bloodstream — to block the costimulatory signal.

More specifically, both amnesic rats and people with damage to the hippocampus — a key structure in memory formation — tend to eat in short sporadic bouts, rather than in a few concentrated meals.

Gore and her colleagues believe these effects are epigenetic; that is, rather than inducing genetic mutations, which would change the sequence of the rats» DNA, the fungicide is permanently silencing or reprogramming normal genes that control development and behavior.

To create hypoxia, they placed pregnant rats in a chamber that kept their oxygen levels at 13 %, rather than the norm of 21 %, for the majority of their pregnancy.

In different experiments, the article notes, rats have learned to respond properly to visual stimuli in a fourth to a sixth the number of trials when stimuli were projected onto the floor rather than onto walls.

But because the vinclozolin - induced fertility changes occurred in almost every male rat descended from a treated mother rather than in a small percentage of offspring (as is seen in germ line mutations caused by radiation), Skinner suspects an epigenetic mechanism — a change that doesn't mutate the DNA sequence of an animal, but rather affects how genes are expressed.

Because of successes in these species, rather than merely in rats, Watkins is hopeful that the therapy will be successful in people too.

In the spirit of my analogy, they are talking about changing the estimated weight of the rats rather than the estimated displacement of the platform.

Furthermore, female rats were more sensitive to the anorectic effects of centrally injected leptin rather than male rats, which on the contrary were more sensitive to centrally injected insulin (262, 263).

But, rather than studying the entire nervous system of a single model organism, Professor Graybiel has studied one brain region — a portion of the basal ganglia known as the striatum — in mice, rats, cats, monkeys, and humans using a whole range of technologies from microscopy through electrophysiological recordings to genetics.

The available clinical research on this issue involved rats as subjects rather than humans.

One might surmise that the rats» metabolic mechanisms were able to detect oxidative damage to the fats, and therefore rejected them, prefering to do without rather than to risk the consequences of feeding their pups oxidized fats.

One exception I think was the use in one study of 5ppm aflatoxin for high - casein and 2.5 ppm aflatoxin for low - casein rather than just using 2.5 ppm for both groups so the low - casein rats wouldn't die.

This study (animal based pregnant rats) provides strong rationale for preventive management of immune disorders, such as food intolerance, rather than therapeutic issues,

Similar fructose increases have been reported in healthy volunteers who consumed fructose loads between 0.5 and 0.75 g / kg34 and in individuals who consumed fructose - sweetened beverages with mixed meals.35 Leptin and ghrelin levels were indistinguishable following acute ingestion of glucose or fructose, a finding possibly attributable to the short time interval of observation; leptin levels typically change 4 to 6 hours after glucose administration.36 Although fructose was previously reported to be less effective than glucose in suppressing ghrelin, such differences may be attributable to the different conditions and timing of ghrelin measurements.10 Little is known about the acute PYY response to fructose ingestion compared with glucose ingestion, although 1 study in rats found higher rather than lower PYY levels after 24 hours of glucose but not fructose feeding.11 Whether such disparities are related to study design or species differences remains uncertain.

Malkovich seems overcome with ennui rather than malicious intent beneath a rat's nest of a wig and Fox is tough, toothsome, and just a little vacuous in her tight corset and slit petticoats.

Speaking of the politics of 2017 movies, in the realm of queer cinema, Beach Rats has proven somewhat controversial for feeling retrograde, being the story of a sexually fraught young man that ends with violence, rage, and confusion, rather than — like CMBYN — a generous sense of self - acceptance.

The narrative of these two movies, which both premiered at Sundance last January, has been that Beach Rats is not the kind of movie we need right now, as if the closet were something that could go out of fashion, rather than the enduring social condition that it is.

The means to achieve this end lies in the hands of human raters, rather than machines.

The blind spot detection warning was a lighted indicator and a chime, rather than a steering wheel vibration that doesn't rat you out to the passengers.

My dream would be to find a job I enjoy so much that I do it for fun rather than money, but short of that, I'll work my @ $ $ off and build passive income streams as quickly as possible to get out of the rat race.

Most of us would probably prefer to have a small, healthy feral cat population, rather than a larger Norway rat and seagull population in habitats where those are the only options.

That's because rat terrier puppies will likely bond with each other rather than with their human families.

Bred more for the purpose of hunting vermin rather than for «type,» a number of other breeds are in the Rat Terrier's background.

Our compost bins are rat - free (my wife is a keen organic gardener), and I would rather have their numbers kept down by the cats than put out poison.

Are all games that have you in control via click to move and shoot rather than a virtual dpad an rats?

Conflating modernist and historical styles, they convey a regard for making new art that is deep and critical, rather than nostalgic, subtly referential, rater than concrete and abstract.

Self - proclaimed mandarins insist that it focuses attention away from real achievement, making room for a bunch of second - raters, also - rans and wannabes rather than work of real quality.

Strangely, I'd rather that money go to Mosher's social security and health care than sending it down rat holes.

What some of the raters in the room this week were wondering, though, is if the green building programs (LEED for Homes, NAHB Green Building Program, EarthCraft House...) may decouple from ENERGY STAR rather than risk losing a lot of their builders.

And the comparison would be economically apt if, rather than putting a man on the moon — which costs about $ 100 billion in today's dollars — President Kennedy's goal had been to build a massive lunar colony, complete with a casino where the Rat Pack could perform.

The US comes off looking like a clown, which it is not — but rather as an elephant in a very expensive, high end jewellery shop and / or rats in sewers (both analogies do not do justice to either elephants or rats as Dr. Hunter S. Thopmson of Gonzo fame might quip — it is worse than that).

In the rat, these effects are reversed by cross-fostering, demonstrating that they are defined by epigenetic rather than genetic processes.