Sentences with phrase «treating lab animals»

David Grimm — online news editor for Science — talks with Sarah Crespi about the potential of treating lab animals more like us and making them more useful for science at the same time.

In the next steps, the researchers intend to use the stem cells to treat lab animals that have corneal scars to see if they, too, can be repaired with stem cells.

Evidence of poorly treated lab animals has led researchers to retract a 2014 article in Veterinary Pathology that explored the neurological effects of dehydration in squirrel monkeys.

Not exact matches

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today removed public access to tens of thousands of reports that document the numbers of animals kept by research labs, companies, zoos, circuses, and animal transporters — and whether those animals are being treated humanely under the Animal Welfaranimal transporters — and whether those animals are being treated humanely under the Animal WelfarAnimal Welfare Act.

When animals treated this way had been deprived of salt, they did not distinguish between salty water and plain water, a paper from Zuker's lab reported — just as you would expect if that channel, called ENaC, were required for tasting salt.

In the lab, replacing malfunctioning genes with working ones has succeeded in curing or treating animals with hemophilia, (the animal analogs of) depression, and other afflictions.

Diamond's lab circumvented this problem by creating female mice that had a key interferon gene knocked out; in a second experiment, they treated pregnant animals with an anti-interferon antibody.

Recent studies in lab animals and humans show that the much - maligned material can be a source of cells useful for treating a wide range of ills.

The specimens come from a variety of animal species, including okapi, platypus, and sloth, and are embedded in paraffine wax as soon as they arrive to the lab, where scientists study them to help vets diagnose and treat eye diseases.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture late last week removed public access to tens of thousands of reports that document the numbers of animals kept by research labs, companies, zoos, circuses, and animal transporters — and whether those animals are being treated humanely under the Animal Welfaranimal transporters — and whether those animals are being treated humanely under the Animal WelfarAnimal Welfare Act.

Lab studies, animal studies, and observations of evacuated patients treated in Europe and the USA have suggested that Ebola might cause lung damage by replicating itself in lung tissue.

A human lung in a pig might show more accurately the effect of a compound intended to treat, say, cystic fibrosis than today's lab animals.

They found that when lab animals were fed a carb - free diet, they survived highly aggressive metastatic cancer better than those treated with chemotherapy.

Animals are abused and tortured during lab tests, caged, forced to eat rotting garbage, and treated cruelly by humans.

And located on TCC's West Campus, the vet tech program sports a 20,000 squarefoot teaching facility with classrooms, clinical laboratories, a treatment area for large animals with stalls for cattle restraint, and a small animal treatment area with six wet tables to examine and treat small animals like dogs and cats, and lab animals like rabbits, rats and mice.

«The animals in his labs aren't treated as living souls; they're just pieces of equipment.»

Now it is far more challenging to know whether animals are being treated properly in research labs, puppy mills, zoos, circuses, aquariums.

Currently, her lab is focused on finding drugs suitable for eliminating mammary cancer and ocular herpevirus infections in small companion animals, and evaluating the effectiveness of stem cell therapies for treating skin wounds in horses — all of which may also be used in humans and other animals.

I know of a couple situations where Labs have hurt people, but that is a reminder to everyone that they are still animals and need to be treated as such.

In addition, Matrix donated more than 150 food, toy and treat items, along with over $ 3,700 to numerous rescues, including Midwest Lab Rescue, Chicago Canine Rescue, Elkhart Humane Society and TLC Animal Shelter.