Sentences with phrase «researchers altered the animals»

When the researchers altered the animals» eating patterns by feeding normal mice only during the light cycle (a mouse's night), the numbers, types, and activity of the bacteria shifted as well.

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Because neural crest cells contribute to so many tissues in the body, altering their function could change an animal's behavior, appearance and biology, the researchers reasoned.

Because Zika typically has trouble establishing infections in mice, the researchers used animals that were genetically altered so that they could not produce interferon, a key immune system signaling molecule, thus dampening the animals» immune response to the virus.

Only when researchers injected mice that had been genetically altered to have a deficient innate immune response did the animals develop detectible disease.

When using a well established model of colorectal cancer, the researchers observed that dietary emulsifier consumption was sufficient to make the animals more susceptible to developing colonic tumors because this created and maintained a pro-inflammatory environment associated with an altered proliferation / apoptosis (cell death) balance.

Studying these symptoms earlier in the animal model gives researchers more time to monitor the progression of the disease as well as assess the efficacy of potential therapeutics and to determine if and when the course of the disease could be altered.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers in that lab have discovered how to alter the animals» memories by turning on neurons in the brain that are associated with the memories and updating them with new information.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have successfully targeted unnatural sugar molecules with chemically unique functional groups onto the surfaces of cells in living animals without altering...

While researchers have been able to study how DISC1 mutations alter the brain during development in animal models, it has been difficult to find the right tools to study changes in humans.

It's like coconut oil, 30 odd years ago when researchers fed animals hydrogenated coconut oil that was purposely altered to make it completely devoid of any essential fatty acids.The animals fed the hydrogenated coconut oil (as the only fat source) naturally became essential fatty acid deficient; their serum cholesterol increased.