Sentences with phrase «researchers say animals»

But primate researchers say the animals don «t have much spare time in the wild for mating, let alone for playing with themselves, and it's in the wild that the evolutionary pressures Hrdy talks about are exerted.

Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers say their animal study, published online in Endocrinology, provides the strongest evidence to date on the mechanism of this ancient Chinese therapy in chronic stress.

Not exact matches

«This kind of deception is common in our society, but it is so difficult to prove that any other animal does it,» said lead researcher Aliza le Roux, a behavioral ecologist at the University of the Free State in South Africa.

The bad news is that Interpol researchers found adverts selling parts of some of the most critically endangered species on earth on one of the most difficult to regulate Internet platforms,» Tania McCrea - Steele, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Global Wildlife Cybercrime Project Lead said in an Interpol press release.

So these researchers went around asking people what kind of animal they would be, trying to find out what our choices said about us.

«when run through a simulated dishwasher 50 to 75 times, name - brand baby bottles leach the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in levels that have caused reproductive abnormalities in lab animals...» This is one of the highest - volume produced chemicals in the world,» says Fredrick vom Saal, a Missouri biology professor and BPA researcher.

They say a new study found that, when exposed to heat, baby bottles release a chemical that, researchers say, has been linked to obesity, diabetes and developmental problems in lab animals.

Researchers have only indirect evidence that bats are reservoirs of Ebola, Plowright says, but the data suggest that the animals probably do harbor the virus.

Animal researchers, says Garner, will have to embrace statistical methods that compensate for a greater range of variability.

The first dramatic claim came in the 2 October issue of Science (pp. 19 and 80), when researchers said they had found tracks of multicellular animals in 1.1 - billion - year - old Indian rocks.

While the feathers aren't the first to be found in amber, earlier specimens have been difficult to definitively link to their source animal, the researchers say.

Other groups have attempted to induce PANDAS in animals, says James Leckman, a pediatric psychiatry researcher at Yale University, who was not involved in the study, but the results from those studies were inconsistent.

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.

The compound, already proven safe for humans, is undergoing further animal testing in preparation for possible clinical trials in cocaine addicts, the researchers say.

Testing heritability is easier in laboratory conditions because all the animals are raised in the same environment and the researchers know the relatedness of all the lizards, Cox said.

«The elegant studies here provide proof of concept that targeting LMPTP in the liver improves glucose control and liver insulin signalling in animals,» says Daniel Drucker of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, who says that targeting enzymes like LMPTP has long been a goal for researchers tackling diabetes.

These night - time harmful conditions are changing about twice as fast as the daily average, the researchers say, meaning the negative impacts on shell - building animals, including oysters, clams and mussels, may manifest more quickly than expected from simply observing the daily average.

Oftentimes, sellers would offer Brown and his fellow researchers «a turtle or monitor lizard or some other animal which they should not have had in their possession,» he said.

Dr. Bassuk says the researchers didn't notice anything obviously wrong with their animals.

The techniques can be used to determine color from well - preserved animal fossils that are up to 300 million years old, researchers said.

That suggests researchers are «trying to stifle transparency, and make sure that their interests are met and not the animals»,» Conlee says.

The new method may make some types of gene therapy easier and could be a boon for researchers hoping to control gene activity in animals, scientists say.

«Our study was conducted in a supervised setting, by researchers experienced in working with kids with autism spectrum disorders who understand the needs and requirements of the animals,» Dr. O'Haire said.

Besides its potential application in human patients, the newly developed skin tissue also could be used as an alternative to testing cosmetics on animals, the researchers said.

Says Dr Jonah Choiniere, co-author and Senior Researcher in Dinosaur Palaeobiology at the ESI at Wits University: «This new animal shines a spotlight on southern Africa and shows us just how much more we have to learn about the ecosystems of the past, even here in our own «backyard».

Indeed, the «Cambrian explosion» — the burst of evolution about 540 million years ago that included the birth of most of the major animal groups we know today — was enabled by oxygen deprivation, the researchers say.

«We can ask animals how they see their surroundings by observing their movement,» says lead researcher Martin Wikelski.

The biomedical device company CryoLife, Inc. is now using the researchers» design to build ring implants for further studies in lab animals, Karp says.

Our feelings about other animals have important consequences for how we treat humans, say prejudice researchers Gordon Hodson and Kimberly Costello

The Duke researchers who made this discovery say it may help explain how a relatively small number of genes can create the dazzling array of different cell types found in human brains and the nervous systems in other animals.

«The study of this type of tumours has been problematic up to now due to the lack of cell models and the appropriate animal models,» says CNIC researcher Juan Carlos Ramírez, who adds that the difficulty of generating these chromosomal translocations had limited the availability of cells with this mark of the disease.

To understand whether and how Achaeopteryx actually flew, researchers would need to reconstruct the animal's full range of motion — a challenging prospect given that muscles don't fossilize, says Voeten, of Palacký University Olomouc in the Czech Republic.

«Despite the prevalence of abnormal sleep patterns in PD, very few studies to date have outlined sleep disturbances in animal models of PD,» says Sarah M. Rothman, PhD, a researcher with the National Institute on Aging, in Baltimore, MD..

One of the cats had a millet - rich diet — a clue that humans were likely feeding the animal, said researchers, and evidence of domestic cats in China much earlier than previously thought.

While not writing off biotechnology or GM foods, the researchers say that, until more is known, it's prudent to acknowledge and address uncertainties about their effects on people, animals and plants.

The results have implications both for researchers trying to understand the rapid decline in frog populations across the globe and for conservationists looking to save the animals, said Vance Vredenburg, associate professor of biology at San Francisco State University and co-author of the study.

The University of Manchester researchers say their groundbreaking work — using synchrotron - imaging techniques — sheds new light, literally, on the healing process that took place when these magnificent animals were still alive.

«The animal comes inside the camp looking for a warm place to sleep beneath» — referring to human bodies in hammocks, says Etiam Pérez, a Cuban crocodile researcher and manager of the Zapata Swamp Captive Breeding Farm.

Lead researcher Dr Morgan Beeby said: «We are used to observing evolution at the scale of animals or plants, such as the giraffe's neck slowly getting longer over time to reach previously inaccessible food.

«We already knew what they ate, because gut contents analysis is pretty straightforward with an animal that's transparent, but the fishing techniques we observed were a surprise,» said senior researcher Associate Professor Jamie Seymour, from JCU's Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine.

Researchers at Scripps and other institutions began testing blood samples from these individuals in animals and found that they were producing broadly neutralizing antibodies capable of eliminating most of the HIV varieties, says Crotty.

The researchers are conducting ongoing experiments that suggest they can, similar to animals equipped with eyes, Sumner - Rooney says.

The paper is «a big step forward» because running such tests in the wild «is exceptionally challenging,» says Alex Thornton, an animal cognition researcher at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

«Despite the relatively low sample size of frozen products in our study, it is clear that commercial RMBDs may be contaminated with a variety of zoonotic bacterial and parasitic pathogens that may be a possible source of bacterial infections in pet animals and if transmitted pose a risk for human beings,» say the researchers.

«Why these animals stayed together so long in Hood Canal is a mystery,» said John K. B. Ford, one of the world's leading researchers on orca behavior and a marine mammal scientist at the Canadian government's Pacific Biological Station on Vancouver Island.

In the Vet Record today, a team of researchers based in The Netherlands say these diets may be contaminated with bacteria and parasites, and as such may pose a risk to both animal and human health.

«If you «turn the volume up» on animals that hadn't experienced stress, they start normal and then they have a problem,» said lead researcher Kafui Dzirasa, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and neurobiology.

Working with two elderly captive Guiana dolphins at the Dolphinarium of Allwetterzoo Münster in Germany, researchers began to suspect that the animals might have electroreceptors «because you can see dark pits on their snouts,» says Wolf Hanke, a sensory biologist at the University of Rostock in Germany and one of the study's authors.

«In addition to being used in animal studies to help us understand how the brain works, this new endoscope might one day be useful for certain applications in people,» said Shay Ohayon, who developed the device as a postdoctoral researcher in James DiCarlo's lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Collins said that because Hydra is such a simple animal and because it is able to regenerate after complete dissociation into individual cells, it offers researchers the opportunity to use similar techniques as the ones employed in their experiments to examine how an organism develops from an unstructured group of cells into a complex body plan.