Sentences with phrase «studied the animals since»

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ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.

Only a few biologists have actually lived with animals in their native habitats in order to study their behavior there, and the results are not always recognized as «scientific», since they are not readily repeatable in the fashion required by science.

On the other hand, it would be overly simple to claim the Hebrew Scriptures in support of our modern study of animal life or the work of environmental conservation, since it is clear that neither priest not prophet thought the order of nature as we now see it to reflect God's intentions, either original or ultimate, for it.

My assigned blogger for this month was Lindsay and her blog «The Lean Green Bean» - she is studying to be a Registered Dietitian plus she shares her home with four furry companions, two cats and two dogs, which I personally found very cool because I am an animal lover myself since I grew up with dogs from very early age and in my adult life share my home with 3 cats.

SARASOTA — Scientist Carl Luer has spent most of his life studying an animal humans inherently fear: sharks.The predators of the sea have been the villains of thriller tales since the 1974 novel, Jaws They've invaded the streets of Los Angeles in the...

Students tell me they think more clearly, study better and have way more energy since substituting the green smoothie for an unhealthy meal loaded with animal products and processed, packaged food.

The pharmacologist felt the animal studies submitted were not a good indication of possible toxicity in humans, since animals absorb thalidomide poorly.

«However, since most earlier studies were in men or male animals, it looks like this «normal» response was only in men.

Since the sexual reproduction stage of malaria only occurs in insects, Poinar said in the new study that they must be considered the primary hosts of the disease, not the vertebrate animals that they infect with disease - causing protozoa.

Despite a dearth of human studies, more than 400 experiments have been done since the early 1970s to determine how cell phone radiation affects animals, cells and DNA.

You studied lions in the Serengeti 35 years ago and the descendants of those same animals have been studied continuously in all the time since then by your research descendants.

«We've done a DNA analysis and concluded that the skull bone and horns are from the same animal, which certainly suggests that these specimens are authentic,» says Timm, who has been studying the bones since 1986.

Bruna, an assistant professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida in Gainesville, has been traveling to the Amazon since 1997 to study how plants and animals interact.

Since there are no relevant animal models for lissencephaly, the reprogramming technique has been essential to the study of lissencephaly's underlying pathogenesis.

Ever since the time of Darwin, biologists have studied the choices animals make when looking for a partner, and why.

Yong, a neuroscientist, initially had the idea to test the acne medicine in an animal model since minocycline has many anti-inflammatory properties that he thought could be useful in treating MS. Soon after obtaining successful research results, in studies also supported by the MS Society of Canada and MSSRF, Yong teamed up with Metz who led the transition into a pilot clinical trial, then a Phase 2, and finally the definitive Phase 3 trial.

Since then, researchers have studied sick and dead sea lions and documented that the toxin causes seizures and damages the brain, sometimes killing the animal.

The effect is thought to be mediated by the intestinal microbes, since antibiotics in animal studies has been found to change the composition of the intestinal microbiota and reduce biodiversity.

The Mosers have since carved out a niche studying how grid cells interact with other specialized neurons to form what may be a complete navigation system that tells animals where they are going and where they have been.

Friedlaender says his research casts doubt on Japan's scientific whaling program, which has purported to study minke feeding biology and has killed between 240 and 860 of the animals every year since 1988.

We have known about this human and animal pathogen, TB, since ancient times, and it has always been considered something that is transmitted either through oral or aerosol exposure,» said lead study author Kathleen Alexander, DVM, PhD, professor, Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

But studies since the 1990s have shown that animals from great tits to octopuses exhibit «personality.»

Since the 1970s, researchers have suspected eels could sense magnetic fields, and a 2013 study proposed the animals used a «magnetic compass» to orient using the North Pole.

Since then, he and his colleagues have shown in lab studies of rodents and pythons that these animals grow up bigger and faster when they eat cooked meat instead of raw meat — and that it takes less energy to digest cooked meat than raw meat.

«Feral animals pose major threat to Outback, climate change study finds: Australia has lost about 30 mammal species since European arrival.»

I have been involved with GeNeYouS since its inception in 2003, which also coincided with the end of my Masters studies in animal breeding and genetics.

«The results of the study are truly promising, since we were able to show for the first time that A2A adenosine receptor antagonists actually have very positive effects in an animal model simulating hallmark characteristics and progression of the disease.

Since Christophe Boesch began studying wild chimpanzees in the Taï forest in Côte d'Ivoire in 1979, the animals» populations have declined by more than two - thirds.

Since most of the research work still focuses on early basic science work and studies in animals, the funding has mainly created jobs tied to laboratory construction and positions for new scientists, assistants and lab technicians, the study said.

The study is the first to demonstrate that the animals can rapidly evolve higher tolerance to road salt, and indicates that freshwater ecosystems may possess some resilience in the face of a 50-fold increase in road deicing salt applications since the 1940s.

Detailed molecular profiling investigations alongside antitumor testing and tolerability studies in animals suggest caution when considering the clinical development of inhibitors of CDK8 and CDK19, since a clear therapeutic window could not be demonstrated with two structurally distinct, potent and selective prototype drugs.

Since in this study the animals were continuously exposed to nicotine vapor over 90 min and the T1 / 2 of cotinine in C57BL / 6 mice is 37.5 min, the cotinine level (267ng / mL) measured after the termination of nicotine did not reach steady - state (CotSS).

Unsurprising, since its mostly a mouse cancer study with some NHANES reanalysis / data - mining added for headline pizazz, and cancer mortality rates in the elderly didn't corroborate their animal study.

It is possible that the vitamin D concentrations of the milk would have been higher if the mothers had been consuming only vitamin D3, the animal form of vitamin D. Vitamin D is carried into breast milk attached to the vitamin D - binding protein; 21 since one study found vitamin D2 to have a lower affinity than vitamin D3 for the vitamin D - binding protein, it may be that vitamin D3 is much more effective than vitamin D2 at raising the levels of vitamin D in milk.

Since these studies looked at blood levels of retinol in the mothers rather than their food intake, we don't know whether low blood levels were the result of poor carotenoid intake from plant foods, poor retinoid intake from animal foods, or a combination of the two.

The science about plant vs. animal diets has been absolutely proven since the 2009 NIH study (following over half a million people over ten years) and confirmed by two Harvard University studies (following over 100,000 people for decades) that were released in 2012.

The old thinking would predict that then there would be no calcium loss since there is no excess acid to buffer, but no, even though the acid load was neutralized there was still the excess urinary calcium, consistent with the radioactive isotope study, «challenging the long - standing dogma that animal protein consumption results in an acidosis that promotes the increased excretion of calcium....

Most studies have focused on the effect of individual BAs administered intravenously to laboratory animals or healthy volunteers, but these results are difficult to transfer to food intake since the intravenous response is several times higher than that obtained with oral administrations [87].

Since humans are not raised in confinement like lab animals, there are always sources of variability in human studies that can not be fully explained.

The belief that phytates are «anti-nutrients» started with animal studies and has been perpetuated ever since primarily on animal studies.

And more than 90 percent of American soy crops are GM.5 Since the introduction of GM foods in 1996, we've had an upsurge in low birth weight babies, infertility, and other problems in the U.S. population, and animal studies thus far have shown devastating effects from consuming GM soy.

On a separate note, it's difficult to justify saying (as you did in your initial comment) that the Greek's long life expectancy «is because of the mediterranean diet and the consumption of olive oil», since RCT's can only show correlation and in - vitro and animal studies may non translate to humans

Animal and clinical studies indicate that the AR signaling pathway is required for appropriate development of skeletal muscles, since it regulates increases in lean muscle mass, muscle strength, and muscle protein synthesis.

There are very limited studies on pregnant women determining the effects of hydroquinone on pregnancy (since I assume most pregnant women don't want to be part of such clinical trials...), but due to hydroquinone's high absorption rate and animal studies reporting carcinogenic effects in rats, it's recommended pregnant and nursing women avoid using this chemical.

-LSB-...] All these amazing contradictions find an explanation and can cope with each other perfectly since we have established that not even today the behavior of man is not exclusively directed by reason and cultural tradition, but is still subject to all those laws that govern any instinctual behavior born on phylogenetic path, laws that we know very well from studying the animal behavior.»

Since 1984 she has taught and spearheaded studies of human - animal interactions at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, focusing on the psychosocial effects of being with animals and the impact of pet loss on people.

Often attributed to Nathan Winograd, then director of law and advocacy for the San Francisco SPCA, the Hayden Act was actually drafted chiefly by Taimie Bryant of the University of California at Los Angeles law faculty, and holder since 2004 of the Bob Barker Endowment Fund for the Study of Animal Rights Law at UCLA.

Since its founding in 1948, Morris Animal Foundation has invested more than $ 92 million toward 2,300 studies that have led to significant breakthroughs in diagnostics, treatments, preventions and cures for animals.

«There have not been any controlled studies to look at this issue since there is so much individual variation between dog personalities,» says Duffy Jones, DVM, founder of Peachtree Hills Animal Hospital in Atlanta.

Long - term studies have demonstrated the futility of such a strategy since other unaltered cats quickly replace the exterminated animals, moving in to take over the food source and resume the reproductive cycle.