Sentences with phrase «through animal studies»

Joseph Zito, the plaintiff's lawyer, says that his client, John Barthelow Classen, was the first researcher to connect vaccination schedules to immune disorders through animal studies.

Researchers are still working to understand just how some of these pathways and hormones can influence disease risk, primarily through animal studies in the lab.

We first became aware of the hormone's social influence through animal studies.

The scientific evidence documenting the serious health risks associated with reproductive cloning, as shown through animal studies, make it unconscionable to undertake this procedure.

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This helped keep the animals safe at night from wandering off, getting eaten by predators, or from getting stolen, and also helped keep the family in the upper room above (If memory serves me right, Kenneth Bailey writes about this in Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels).

The ancients based their opinions on data gathered from studies of the pregnant mother or through the dissection and vivisection of pregnant animals.

Study of Scripture through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred by Baden, like «God learns to accept their inherently evil nature», and humans «are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices», and «it is, rather, our job to make ourselves uncomfortable that he might be appeased.»

«Buckland also claimed to have eaten his way straight through the animal kingdom as he studied it and, allegedly, part of Louis XIV's embalmed heart, pinched from the snuffbox of his friend the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.

Animal studies of the beta - casein has shown «digestion of A1 but not A2 beta - casein affects gastrointestinal motility and inflammation through the release of beta - casomorphin - 7».

Outdoor exploration is an important part of our curriculum: We immerse ourselves in nature, exploring plants and animals through hands - on studies.

Using a variety of plants, animals, and microbes, the researchers will study the possibility that organisms can influence their own evolution and that inheritance can take place through routes other than the genetic material.

In medicine today, physician - scientists and basic scientists supplement support for their research by applying their expertise part time to develop and test commercial products.1 In my own field, vision science, university - based researchers obtain additional funding through clinical and electrophysiologic studies, pathology, imaging, biochemistry, and animal model development performed for pharmaceutical and instrument companies.

In a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the research team found that after giving mice metformin the animals displayed reduced symptoms when going through nicotine withdrawal.

In fact, he has tracked the bends in marine critters from the Triassic through the age of mammals and up to our own time as a way to study how certain animals evolved a resistance to the disorder.

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

Moreover, getting a better picture of what the virus looks like and understanding its properties through animal testing and studying patients» blood might help vaccine developers pinpoint specific issues, says Pei - Yong Shi, a virologist at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

When the team behind the study took infrared images of the animals, they noticed that they were losing a considerable amount of heat through their tails.

«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.

The radiation - sensitive animals (19 of 46) all showed evidence of impairment that began at 50 to 60 days post-exposure and remained through the end of the study.

In the new study, Ji's group put SHANK3 - deficient mice through a battery of sensory tests, finding that the animals had lower sensitivity than normal mice to heat and heat - related pain — akin to the soreness a person feels after a sunburn.

Two captive elephants blast air through their trunks to grasp hard - to - reach food, suggests an initial study published today in Springer's journal Animal Cognition.

In previous studies, Chen - Yu Zhang's group has reported a striking finding that plant miRNAs are ingested from plant diets and pass through the gastrointestinal tract, enter into the blood, accumulate in tissues and regulate endogenous gene expression in animals.

«Plasma is a human product so you don't have to go through toxicology studies in animals,» Wyss - Coray says.

Through study of mice lacking Sp7, Javed and colleagues found that initial tooth morphogenesis was normal, even though the animals lacked mineralized tooth sockets.

Several studies have clearly shown that the spread of animal and plant species through global trade has increased massively over the past few decades.

Study participants were then asked to rate how much they agree with a series of statements about killing animals, such as, «It is often necessary to control for animal overpopulation through different means, such as hunting or euthanasia,» or, «An experiment should never cause the killing of animals.»

«Imaging studies allow us to gather enhanced information through longitudinal studies of the same animal during the course of the infection.»

This bacterial transfer may begin in the womb, animal studies suggest, and continues during a trip through the birth canal.

Rebecca Saxe: Through most of the short history of neuroscience, what we've been able to study are the kinds of things that brains in general do — the things that brains of all kinds of animals can do.

Goldman specializes in studying how animals manage to move through sand and other granular materials that tend to give way.

The authors said the study underlines the increasing vulnerability of calcified animals to ocean acidification, which occurs as the ocean absorbs more atmospheric carbon emitted through the burning of fossil fuels.

Scientists studying blue whales in the waters of Chile through DNA profiling and photo - identification may have solved the mystery of where these huge animals go to breed, as revealed by a single female blue whale named «Isabela,» according to a recent study by the Chile's Blue Whale Center / Universidad Austral de Chile, NOAA and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Clues to the low diversity may be found through studies of the animals» main predator.

That means the animals move through the corridors and breed with other populations, says study author Stephen Mech, now a conservation biologist at the University of Memphis in Tennessee.

Animal Days (1979) traced Morris's life from childhood through the pivotal event of his life, the 1967 publication of The Naked Ape, the first widely read study of Homo sapiens from the viewpoint of a zoologist.

SCIENTISTS who study animal intelligence walk a fine line: they must resist the temptation to anthropomorphise animals while analysing behaviour through the lens of common descent.

«This may be the primordial gene that regulates nutrient sensing and helps an animal overcome stressful conditions — and helps an animal live a long time through dietary - restriction conditions,» says the study's senior author, Andrew Dillin, an associate professor of molecular and cell biology at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif..

C.elegans has been used for decades as a model animal to study the genetic and molecular underpinnings of neurological disorders through a number of techniques including bio imaging, electrophysiology and behavior.

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.

The findings have implications for all aspects of medical and scientific research because laboratory mice underpin studies whose results have a transformative effect on human and animal lives through vaccination and other immune - based therapies.

«Future studies on how PAF / PAFR signaling controls UCP1 levels through beta3 - AR production in the BAT of animals and humans may reveal new therapeutic targets to treat metabolic disorders associated with obesity,» said Junko Sugatani, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Pharmaco - Biochemistry at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Shizuoka in Shizuoka, Japan.

Previous studies may have overestimated the numbers of animals by counting cheetahs just passing through an area as permanent residents.

«Through this study, the pandas at the San Diego Zoo have made a significant contribution to our understanding of what may be affecting panda reproduction in habitats in China,» said Ron Swaisgood, director of applied animal ecology, San Diego Zoo Global.

The good news about this latest study is that it offers scalable interventions against drug - seeking behaviors, albeit through evidence based on animal behavior.

After 15 years of studying transparent sea creatures, he admits scientists still do not know exactly how certain animals allow light to travel through them.

«We are at a point in our research where we have validated the efficacy of this combination treatment approach in preclinical animal models, and we now need to define its safety through toxicology and pharmacology studies,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey, chairman of VCU School of Medicine's Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine.

«Although studies in animals have suggested it, this study indicates that markers of inflammation in a mom's blood can be associated with short - and long - term changes in their child's brain, which will now allow us to identify ways to prevent those effects and ensure children develop in the healthiest possible way beginning in the womb and continuing through later childhood and beyond.»

So far, animal studies have shown that it's possible to push ES cells through the stages necessary to become beta cells, but the process is extremely inefficient: sometimes only 1 in 1 million in a cell population will develop in the right direction.

In a new study, researchers claim that parasitic lice can tell us much about the course of bird and mammal evolution, including whether the ancestors of these animals made it through a mass extinction that wiped out most of the dinosaurs.