Sentences with phrase «rats than human beings»

There's Andreas Ernst, for example, the scientist who says that the psychology of sceptics is more like that of rats than human beings.

Amid the white walls and slick surfaces of this film, the characters seem more like lab rats than human beings.

Not exact matches

Nothing like being called a depraved animal, a rat, scum, garbage, less than human or any of the other names that atheists get called on a regular basis, not to mention no threats of eternal torture.

Likewise, the phytoestrogens in soy have not only been shown to be metabolized differently than real estrogen (such as that in cows milk), in humans as opposed to rats, but have shown a wide array of anti-cancer effects, including cancers instigated by sex hormones such as estrogen!

For example, Hofer (1987, 1994) examined physiological regulation in rat babies (who are much less social than humans) and has demonstrated that separation from mother causes dysregulation in multiple physiological systems like breathing, heart rate, hormones.

«We've been hearing about their potential for more than a decade, but the results have always been in mice and rats, and no one has shown they're safe or effective in humans long term,» says Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the company that carried out the stem cell intervention.

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

More experiments with the rats showed that OEA activates the same areas of the brain that mediate the formation of emotionally charged memories in humans, which are more vivid than typical memories.

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.

Studies in the 1960s and 1970s showed that rats and humans who can't predict a negative effect (such as a small shock) end up more frazzled than those who can predict when a zap is coming.

In both rats and humans, the modified fear extinction procedure was more effective in preventing the return of fear than simply omitting the electric shock.

Nonetheless, Pulex irritans, the human flea, is a much less efficient vector of plague than the rat flea Xenopsylla cheopis.

He thus doubts whether science can compile a dictionary for decoding the neural signals corresponding to human memories, which are surely more complex, variable, and context sensitive than those of rats.

One idea is that rats on a spartan diet keep their proteins turning over at higher rates than normal, says Brian Merry, who is studying ageing and diet at the Institute of Human Ageing in the University of Liverpool.

Rabbits are more similar to humans than laboratory rats or mice, which explains why Jean - Paul Renard, a developmental biologist at the French Agronomy Research Institute in Jouy - en - Josas, spent the better part of three years figuring out how to clone them.

But cloning efforts have failed because, unlike mouse or human oocytes, rat oocytes start to divide less than an hour after they are removed from the animal's body.

The cell cultures in the petri dishes are of human origin, and in some aspects resemble human brains more than the brains of lab animals such as rats or mice do.

But he notes that obesity is probably far more complex in humans than in rats, so targeting just one molecule is «highly unlikely» to work in people.

Liang thinks rats make better models of human feeding behaviors than mice because rats are bigger mammals and eat significantly more than mice, making it easier to measure their food intake.

Researchers first observed this pattern more than a hundred years ago in lab rats, but it has since been demonstrated in chickens, cats and humans.

This might be alarming to people but experts say rats can handle more radiation than humans, even if the latter frequently uses their cell phones.

The fruit fly is the ideal animal model because the molecular structure of its ear is more similar to humans than that of rats or guinea pigs, meaning tests on fruit flies yield more accurate results.

It's quite true that glucosepane accumulates much more slowly in normally - aging and even diabetic rats than it does in human aging.

We know that the lemony aura of limonene is more than just a scent, as it can be found in our blood after exposure.8 Furthermore, several anticancer cellular pathways appear to be affected by the terpene limonene, leading some to suggest it has anticancer, or chemopreventative, benefits.9 While feeding it to rats in studies has revealed some efficacy against breast tumors, 10 we have a ways to go before we can make such bold claims in humans.

In any case it's likely that rats need fewer carbs than humans, and that chow is too high in carbs.

The protein content of rat breast milk is 10 times greater than the milk intended for human babies.8, 9 Baby rats double in size in 4.5 days; an infant doubles in size in 6 months.

Several lines of evidence also suggest that mice and rats may be more sensitive to BPA than humans.

PLease note that as of recent, (after 2006 or so) we know that mice / rats have a totally different metabolism of genestein than humans, so all the studies that looked at mice are really moot.

The change in strains of rats just shows that within same species, there are different sensibilities to the variation of dietary protein levels... but rats do need more proteins than human beings.

In fact, rat milk is a whopping 49 % protein4.9 — much higher than the mere 6 % found in human mother's milk.

Animal research is valuable for exploring possibilities and uncovering potentially fruitful areas to explore further in human research, but a rat's metabolism is quite different than a human's.

Since humans produce around 30 times less phytase than rats, phytate - heavy diets might be problematic for humans.

Cecal fermentation and absorption may be more important in rats than humans.

Several of these programs match the scores given by expert human raters more than 90 percent of the time, which is actually higher in some cases than the rate of agreement among multiple human readers.

Very often male rats are more appreciative of human contact and are generally more of a «lap dog» than females.

In the early days, it was the imported Siberian sled - dogs, sometimes referred to as Siberian rats because of their lighter body structure and smaller size than the Malamutes and mixed breeds traditionally used in Alaska, that soon won fame and success - not only as very fast competitors in the grand sled - dog races of the gold - rush era, but also as couriers of mail, and even of vaccines which saved human lives (one very famous instance of which, is remembered through the classic Iditarod race).

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

Bobbie's human fitness experience comes from being a gym rat and from body building for more than 15 years.

Rats abound in towns and cities worldwide and are far - worse vectors of human disease than cats ever were or will be.

Your health is not at risk, domestic rats are no more hazardous to humans than domestic cats or dogs.