Sentences with phrase «team tested animals»

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Herd improvement and agri - technology co-operative LIC welcomes the announcement from Fonterra and The a2 Milk Company about their new partnership as it prepares to launch a new team of elite A2 bulls supported by genotype testing that allows farmers to determine the A2 status of each of their animals.

Stanford's team is now embarking on safety testing in animals.

To test the claim, Murray teamed up with Easter, Sasa, and others to nab as many of the animals as possible and figure out what was going on.

Nath's team is currently developing an animal model of Nodding syndrome to further study the disease and test potential therapies.

Even as researchers test these findings in animals, Nabel's team is exploring an intriguing possibility: adding the Ebola virus membrane protein to a harmless virus that could then carry therapeutic genes specifically to endothelial cells.

Haynes said the research team's insights would be tested in animal models.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

Animal model testing is already underway, and Mikovits notes that her team is looking into some reverse transcriptase inhibitors that have already been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for other uses.

To test this theory, the research team designed an experiment to see if increased LPA signaling led to schizophrenia - like symptoms in animal models.

To test the blind mole - rats» cancer resistance, the Haifa team, led by Irena Manov, Aaron Avivi and Imad Shams, exposed the animals to two cancer - causing agents.

As Markovic is presenting at the CNS meeting, the team is starting animal testing of a new system and will test in humans sometime this year.

Vassaux's team next plans to test gene therapy carried by nanoparticles on a variety of tumors in animals.

Biochemical tests of the adult animals showed that THC - doused brains had the same number of receptors that responded to THC as unexposed rat brains, but more receptors for heroin and more of a compound associated with reward behavior in their neurons, the team reports online 5 July in Neuropsychopharmacology.

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.

Germany's major research institutes have teamed up to publicly defend «responsible» animal testing as a necessary part of biomedical science.

[Morikawa's team] trained and tested their animals during adolescence, a period associated with greater reinforcing effects of drugs.

Using clinical, genetic, and gene expression data as filters to distinguish genes whose copy number alteration causes cancer from those for whom copy number changes are incidental, the team whittled down their list from 14,000 to a more manageable number, each of which they systematically tested using genetic experiments in animals.

Although c9, t11 also showed some weak anti-inflammatory action in the team's test - tube studies, it failed to curb inflammation in animals.

The study was performed in Kilpisjärvi in northwest Finland, where the research team tested the importance of grazing animals, warming and nutrient availability by combining small greenhouses that increased the summer temperature by 1 - 2 degrees Celsius, small fences that excluded reindeer, voles and lemmings, as well as by use of fertilization.

Some have raised concerns about the safety and efficacy of the procedure, saying the team should have tested the approach in animals first.

The team tested their theory using animal cells.

As the team reports July 1 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, supposed yeti and bigfoot samples turned out to come from bears (brown, black and polar), horses, raccoons, one human, some canines (the test didn't narrow down if they were wolves or dogs), cows, sheep, a North American porcupine, a Malaysian tapir and a serow, which is a known animal similar to a goat or antelope.

He teamed up with Robert Seder of the Vaccine Research Center (VCR) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, and scientists at other labs to test immune responses to the vaccine in animals.

The team hopes to get support to continue its tests of the device in large animal models, and eventually conduct clinical trials.

To test the elephants» cooperation skills, a team of scientists modified a classic experiment first administered to chimpanzees in the 1930s, which requires two animals work together to earn a treat.

If similar tests in larger animals pan out, humans will be next, says Gerald Shulman, a molecular biologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut whose team discovered this new role for the molecule, called N - acylphosphatidylethanolamine (NAPE).

The research team is now starting to test the robotic system in a large animal model of short bowel syndrome.

The team plans to do more animal testing and, if successful, conduct human trials within two years.

Michael Garle, the project's supervisor, says that several research teams have tried measuring levels of cytokines as an alternative to traditional tests where chemicals are applied to the skin of an animal such as a rabbit.

The research team tested the hypothesis by transplanting cells onto the surface of mouse bone grafts and studying the cell behavior both in vivo — inside the animal — and in vitro — outside the body.

The animals were euthanized after a couple of hours, Razavi says, but this fall the team begins long - term animal testing.

After testing the system both in vitro and in vivo in an animal model, Scott's team demonstrated they could administer a subcutaneous injection that slowly delivered nanomaterials to cells in lymph nodes for over a month in a controlled fashion.

To test the capsule's real - world applications, the team used both mathematical modeling and animal models to investigate the effects of delivering a sustained therapeutic dose of a drug called ivermectin, which is used to treat parasitic infections such as river blindness.

The French team claims to be the first to test for the animal's whole lifespan.

The research team then tested RMC - 1 in cultured human airway epithelial cells and mouse models of asthma (via injection into the animals» peritoneal cavities).

The research team has not directly tested whether the transplanted RPE cells improved the animal's vision.

To ensure that the glial cell - to - neuron conversion method is not limited to rodent animals, Chen and his team further tested the method on cultured human glial cells.

So far, Dr Gross and his team have tested Turing Learning in robot swarms but the next step is to reveal the workings of some animal collectives such as schools of fish or colonies of bees.

The team decided to test whether 8 - month - old babies already understand that animals have insides.

Assistant Professor Arindam Basu from NTU's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering said the research team have tested the chip on data recorded from animal models, which showed that it could decode the brain's signal to the hand and fingers with 95 per cent accuracy.

Stellacci's team has already started testing the nanoparticles in animals.

A team of 60 employees, led by Laikind, first tested the stem cell implantation on animals, which saw success.

Testing the technique in mice, the team found that the treatment was effective in preventing animals from developing the mouse equivalent of the disease, and almost completely reversed the symptoms in those that were already suffering from it.

After initial testing demonstrated that their senoablative constructs could eliminate up to 80 % of senescent cells in cell culture, the Oisín team tested them out in living mice, showing that it can purge senescent cells from multiple tissues in middle - aged animals.

Since these findings uncovered a link between p75NTR and metabolism, the research team tested — first in a petri dish and then in animal models — whether there was also a link between p75NTR and the circadian clock.

The tissue is not a viable organ, but may be useful for other purposes such as replacing animals in drug toxicity tests, the team said.

The MIT team is currently working on making nanoparticles that can deliver four drugs, and are also engaged in tests that treat tumor cells in animals.

With the sequel, the Blonde team have a notion to give us our cake and make us eat a meal too, with its message against animal testing, as well as its skepticism about a political system that would cut deals and look the other way to a cause most people worthy of debate.

After receiving the results of the extensive tests the staff gave their recommendations to the team at the Animal Cancer and Imaging Center, and Sadie immediately started on a new chemotherapy program.

A veterinary technician / nurse is a key member of the veterinary team, responsible for skills in areas such as animal nursing care, surgical assisting, dental cleaning, dental and general radiographs, diagnostic testing, anesthetic induction and monitoring, and client education.