Sentences with phrase «reducing use of animal»

Reforestation competes with agricultural land use; land needs could decline by reducing use of animal products, as livestock now consume more than half of all crops [186].

Reducing the use of animal products can have a considerable impact on areas suffering scarce water resources, as meat production requires more water than other agricultural products.

Working to influence the food industry may help to create a climate in which it is easier for individuals to reduce their use of animal products.

«We will end the testing of household products on animals and work to reduce the use of animals in scientific research.»

The measure aims to make chemical safety reviews more science - based, and includes provisions designed to reduce the use of animals in chemical testing and promote the study of so - called cancer clusters.

«The development of this microfluidic lung model, as well as other organs - on - chip, holds the promise of improving the physiological relevance of cellular models for more accurate prediction of the effects of toxicants and drugs on humans, and for reducing the use of animals in medical and pharmaceutical research,» said Sonia Grego, Ph.D., research scientist at RTI and the project's principal investigator.

Dr. Robert Urban of Johnson & Johnson will address how Organ - Chips are being used by the pharmaceutical industry today and the potential the technology holds to change the drug development process and reduce the use of animals in research.

INFRAFRONTIER puts great effort into international standardisation and quality control and into technology development to improve and expand experimental protocols, reduce the use of animals in research and increase the reproducibility of results.

Vicky Robinson, of NC3Rs, which campaigns to reduce use of animals, said: «We can't assume a transgenic marmoset will be better for disease research than, for example, a transgenic mouse.

James Coon, our CEO, also believes that out technology can help reduce the use of animals in clinical trials: «We know that we won't be able to replace animal testing completely.

In addition to ushering in a new era of personalized healthcare, we hope that our Organs - on - Chips technology will reduce the use of animals in clinical drug trials.

And in June, President Obama signed legislation to revamp the Toxic Substances Control Act and to reduce the use of animals in chemical testing protocols.

Not exact matches

Panera Bread offered an update on its food policy on Wednesday, saying it has taken big steps toward reducing the use of antibiotics and confinement of animals in its supply chain.

Panera (PNRA), meanwhile, generated headlines last year as it took a big step toward reducing the use of antibiotics and confinement of animals in its supply chain.

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Installations of the SCC are used to reduce levels of unwanted animal feed or transport flavours often found in cream and milk.

A: As part of our broad commitment to reducing hunger globally, we have long worked to reduce food waste in our processes, capturing instead to feed people in need, and when that is not appropriate, ensuring it is used for animal feed.

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Nevertheless, research is continuing into finding new ways to further promote the 3Rs scheme — to «reduce, refine and replace» the use of animals in research.

The EU stated that the aim of the new Directive was to strengthen legislation, improve the welfare of those animals still used, and to «firmly anchor» the principle of the Three Rs, to Reduce, Refine and Replace the use of animals, in EU legislation.

The RSPCA immediately challenged the Government to «prove it has a genuine commitment» to reducing the numbers of animals used in laboratories.

Aside from sterilization, the city also plans to use other non-lethal methods of dealing with the animals including public education about living with deer to reduce car crashes and tick - borne illnesses, traffic safety measures like extra signage and to add deer - resistive plantings to the borough.

The scientists tested the new compound using a mouse model of TB and found that substituting R207910 for one of three antibiotics in a treatment cocktail significantly reduced the time required to clear the animals» lungs of bacteria.

«The rising level of integrons after 1990 in manured soil could indicate that through our efforts to reduce antibiotic resistance, we have unintentionally increased resistance gene exchange and more study is needed on the use of animal manure,» says Prof Graham from Newcastle University.

BPTES has been used in animal models for a variety of cancers but has not substantially reduced tumor sizes, probably because the drug concentration in tumor tissue is not high enough when using conventional drug formulation methods, say the scientists.

Dr. Frankel is currently directing or co-directing projects related to the ethical and policy implications of human germ - line interventions, the responsible use of animals in biomedical and behavioral research, improving patient safety and reducing errors in health care, the ethical dimensions of the Human Genome Diversity Project, the uses of anonymity on the Internet, and intellectual property and ethical standards for electronic publishing in science.

But the list of changes that must accompany such an approach is daunting: education and more accurate diagnoses leading to fewer, and more appropriate, prescriptions of antibiotics; restrained use of antibiotics in animal husbandry and agriculture; reduced use of antibacterials in household disinfectants.

Reduction of critically important antimicrobials is something the University of Bristol has been working hard on, and over the past six years their farm animal practice has reduced prescribing of these critical antimicrobials, using none in recent years.

Tissue banks are already used to store small amounts of skin material for evaluating the safety of new cosmetics, which reduces the need for animal testing.

In a novel animal study design that mimicked human clinical trials, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that long - term treatment using a small molecule drug that reduces activity of the brain's stress circuitry significantly reduces Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology and prevents onset of cognitive impairment in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative condition.

«It has the potential to inform clinical practice and also guides us about the relevance of animal models of human disease and how we can reduce and refine their use.»

Noninvasive imaging using PET and other technologies reduces the number of animals in a study by permitting the use of animals as their own controls, according to the authors.

In their report that has received advance online publication in Nature Nanotechnology, a research team based at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) describes how a nanomedicine that combines photodynamic therapy — the use of light to trigger a chemical reaction — with a molecular therapy drug targeted against common treatment resistance pathways reduced a thousand-fold the dosage of the molecular therapy drug required to suppress tumor progression and metastatic outgrowth in an animal model.

The anti-epileptic medication currently in use, and the animal toxins mentioned above, reduce electrical excitability by closing a certain type of ion channel.

«At present, meat products represent only a minor transmission route for MRSA to humans, but our findings nevertheless underscore the importance of reducing the use of antibiotics in food - producing animals as well as continuing surveillance of the animal - food - human interface.»

«We expect between 15 to 20 million metric tons of wheat will be downgraded to use for animal feed, which will reduce wheat supply for milling purpose,» said Li Qiang, chief analyst at agricultural consultancy, the Shanghai JC Intelligence.

For the current study, Jessica Childs, a graduate student in Kroener's lab, applied VNS to a test group of rats used in the study in a process called «extinction learning» to determine whether the procedure could help the animals learn different behaviors and reduce their drug cravings.

Using a computational model, the researchers estimated that replacing approximately 5 grams of animal protein with plant protein daily would reduce the risk of diabetes by 18 per cent.

Animal research: The Conservative Party accepts the need for research on animals for medical purposes but seeks to reduce their use by encouraging the development of alternative methods.

This enabled them to greatly reduce the number of laboratory animals, because usually different groups of animals have to be used for such comparative studies.

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In a statement, Jessica Sandler, a vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the animal rights group, noted her group supported the bill because it «contains important language to reduce and replace the use of animals in painful chemical toxicityAnimals, the animal rights group, noted her group supported the bill because it «contains important language to reduce and replace the use of animals in painful chemical toxicityanimals in painful chemical toxicity tests.

Efforts to reduce the tuberculosis burden, therefore, must include strategies to reduce incidence of the bacteria in animals using «One Health» approach.

Several scientists and research organizations praised the decision to stick with the existing E.U. legislation on the protection of research animals, saying it is drafted to help reduce, refine, and replace the use of animals in the lab.

Senior toxicologists say the field of toxicology is undergoing a big change as pressure mounts to reduce animal use and genomics, proteomics, and other cell - based and molecular techniques supersede whole - animal studies.

But if there is no indication of an elevated risk, he says, the effects of exposing animals to such a combination repeatedly are not studied, in part to reduce the numbers of animals used in testing.

These assays that will ultimately reduce the use of thousands of animals and make up for the time lost over the past decade.

Limiting the use of antibiotics for animal - growth promotion is an important step toward reducing bacterial resistance to medical drugs, says Levy, but he emphasizes that doctors also must be more prudent in prescribing antibiotics if medicine is going to combat growing drug resistance in microbes.

All mammals use surfactant while breathing; it's a «way of trying to reduce the number of calories that it costs [to] inhale and exhale,» Fahlman said, adding that animals developed differences in surfactant to adapt to their environments.