Sentences with phrase «when studying animals»

From a conservation and management perspective, this means that when studying animals that may not live in obvious groups, we need to still consider traits within things like social neighbourhoods because these traits can alter how an animal responds to selection pressure.»

«So the idea,» he says, «[was] that when you study animal behavior, you're looking at the product of a kind of piece of clockwork machinery which was put there because of natural selection on generations of ancestors.

Not exact matches

This natural sweetener has also shown great promise in animal studies for reducing weight gain and body fat when substituted for sugar.

As a matter of fact, I would like to thank Sister Catherine for rolling her eyes to the ceiling when we asked in 4th grade about how god made all the animals in one day and there were dinosaurs that were millions of years old while we studied fossils.

There is a study where they observed animals going into a state of hibernation when a catastrophe happens, look it up.

The study reveals that a complex and expansive ecology existed in the period known as the Cambrian Explosion, the time when advanced multicellular animals suddenly appeared on Earth.

Created when sap is boiled down into maple syrup, Quebecol is a novel phenolic compound that has yet to be tested for bioactivity in animal or human studies.

«In the past, studies have shown that the combination of resistance exercise with consumption of animal - derived protein (such as whey, casein, eggs, meat) has had a different effect on muscle growth than when resistance exercise was paired with plant - based protein such as soy,» said Dr. Jaeger, one of the studies authors.

«In the past, studies have shown that the combination of resistance exercise with consumption of animal - derived protein (such as whey, casein, eggs, meat) has had a different effect on muscle growth than when resistance exercise was paired with plant - based protein such as soy,» said Ralf Jaeger, FISSN, CISSN, MBA.

«In the past, studies have shown that the combination of resistance exercise with consumption of animal - derived protein (such as whey, casein, eggs, meat) has had a different effect on muscle growth than when resistance exercise was paired with plant - based protein such soy,» said Dr. Jaeger.

Resistant starch is gaining momentum in the nutrition community due to emerging evidence in animal studies and some limited evidence in human studies suggesting that RS may positively affect body composition, favorably impact blood lipid and blood glucose levels and increase the amount of good bacteria in the colon, and may enhance satiety when consumed with whey protein.

Animal studies have demonstrated that the death rate among animals with disease decreases when the body temperature is elevated.

Without the trigger of gut microbes, a baby's immune system is skewed towards allergies or autoimmune disease — animal studies suggest that there's a specific window of time when this happens and when probiotics can have the greatest impact.

And animal studies suggest that the amygdala — the brain structure that tells us when we should be afraid — is more sensitive, or «trigger - happy,» in timid children (Fox et al 2005; Eliot 2000).

In animal studies when pups are rotated from mother to mother, there were significant increases in emotionality and distress.24

«We know the animal studies raise concerns, but there aren't human studies showing effects yet... so, when we don't have the evidence, what we recommend is that parents try to err on the side of caution,» she says.

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.

When relating the results of animal studies to human infants, important factors to consider include the choice of animal species for study, the stage of development (eg, prenatal or postnatal), and the duration and severity of deficiency or excessive intake.

And, by showing how animal studies can help us understand when and why our own weapons work — or don't work — as deterrents, it drove home the importance of basic research.

When the researchers presented plans for their study to tribe members who were trained research assistants, the assistants protested that the experiment — which involved watching children play with toy animals — was not culturally appropriate.

Studying blobby, asexual amoebas could absolve biology of its animal bias when it comes to uncovering the mysteries of sex

The study authors suggest that this positive feedback loop may have served an important role in evolution, by prompting animals to fatten up when they stumbled across calorically dense food in times of food scarcity.

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.

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.

When I began my work, most of the big animals had never been studied, so when I sat with the gorillas, almost anything I observed was new and gave people an idea of what their lives were really lWhen I began my work, most of the big animals had never been studied, so when I sat with the gorillas, almost anything I observed was new and gave people an idea of what their lives were really lwhen I sat with the gorillas, almost anything I observed was new and gave people an idea of what their lives were really like.

However, in some studies with laboratory mice, Feinberg had observed that these epigenetic tags varied considerably among the mice even when comparing the same type of tissue in animals that have been living in the exact same conditions.

The researchers studied mice engineered to develop plaques in their brains when the animals are about 10 weeks old.

When these bacteria are placed inside an animal, an ultrasound detector can pick up those signals and reveal the microbes» location, much like sonar waves bouncing off ships at sea, explains study coauthor Mikhail Shapiro, a chemical engineer at Caltech.

But everything we're learning from the human and animal genome projects, about the conservation of neurochemistries and the neuroanatomies, all of this points me to the conclusion that we are learning about ourselves when we study these little critters.»

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.

Children hear as much sophisticated information about animals when parents read picture book stories about animals as when they read flashcard - type animal vocabulary books, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo.

Jean Boal, an animal behaviorist at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, is acutely aware of the dangers of getting carried away when studying these charismatic megamollusks.

His opposition to animal research began in 1995, when, in the summer between high school and college, he worked in a hospital laboratory that was conducting heart studies on pigs and witnessed experiments he saw as cruel.

When the researchers injected mice with antibodies from vaccinated people in the study, the animals were protected against subsequent exposure to Zika virus, unlike mice that were injected with antibodies from participants who received placebo.

When polar bears» feeding opportunities decrease during the summer ice melt, the animals can reduce their energy expenditure a little, but not enough to make up for the food shortages, a study in the 17 July issue of Science shows.

Ecologist John Orrock, who studies how animals balance the need to protect themselves from predation with other needs, such as eating and mating, hatched the idea for this research when he was studying snails in a California grassland.

The specifics have yet to be ironed out, but the Amgen team has uncovered a few clues in their rodent studies: They found treated animals had increased activation of certain neurons in the brain that detect blood sugar, and this may have helped them sense when it was time to stop eating.

In the few cases when the injured animals do not symmetrize — only about 15 percent of the injured animals they studied — the unsymmetrical ephyra also can not develop into normal adult jellyfish, called medusa.

Recent studies have found that patterns of neural activity seen when an animal is learning a new task are replayed later during sleep.

«When you put animal, metabolic, and epidemiological studies together and they all point in the same direction, you can be pretty confident about your conclusions,» Willett says.

In the past, nutritional scientists have largely relied on studies of animals, small groups of people, and / or petri - dish biochemistry that may not reflect the vagaries of human metabolism, although Willett uses such studies when he deems it appropriate.

A new study shows that at least two diatom species make compounds that reduce hatching rates when eaten by tiny shrimplike animals called copepods.

Yet, a new University of California, Davis, study suggests that local ordinances are not adequately addressing human and animal health when it comes to backyard poultry, and laws that do exist do not keep pace with those for commercial growers.

In earlier studies involving animal models and human cancer cell lines, researchers found that breast cancer spreads when three specific cells are in direct contact: an endothelial cell (a type of cell that lines the blood vessels), a perivascular macrophage (a type of immune cell found near blood vessels), and a tumor cell that produces high levels of Mena, a protein that enhances a cancer cell's ability to spread.

A new study shows that these cells alter their behavior and structure when the animals» hearing is blocked.

In the study, neuroscientist Jeffrey Schall of Vanderbilt University and grad student Doug Hanes trained monkeys to do a reaction - time task in which the animals fix their eyes on a dot in the middle of a blank computer screen and, when that dot disappears and another appears to the right or the left, shift their gaze to the new dot.

When he transferred to Cornell in 1956, after landing a full scholarship for doctoral studies in animal nutrition, he set out to learn how to produce more animal protein «so we could eat more of it.»

The study is part of a larger field of research that aims to understand when, where and how humans turned wild plants and animals into the crops, pets and livestock we know today.

Campbell stumbled across statistics about osteoporosis in the 1980s when he took a break from his animal studies to direct the China - Oxford - Cornell project, a massive investigation of diet and disease based on data gathered from 6,500 rural Chinese families.

«When we examined the associations of the three food categories with heart disease risk, we found that healthy plant foods were associated with lower risk, whereas less healthy plant foods and animal foods were associated with higher risk,» said Ambika Satija, ScD, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston and the study's lead author.