Sentences with phrase «who experiment on animals»

«These half - measures will do little or nothing to prevent the harassment, intimidation, and violence,» says Mark Matfield, executive director of the Research Defense Society, which represents scientists who experiment on animals.

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Those who feel there is something «unnatural» about introducing human genes into animals or plants forget that we share a high proportion of our genes with these species already: it is precisely this collective heritage that allows experiments on frogs to spawn treatments for human cancer.

«The result was an extensive inhibition of tumor growth and prevention of metastasis to the lung in HER2 - positive animal models of breast cancer,» notes Navasona Krishnan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral investigator in the Tonks lab who performed many of the experiments and is lead author on the paper reporting the results.

Spearheading the work was University of Gothenburg neuroscientist Sten Grillner, who ran chemical experiments on cats, the standard test animal for studying locomotion.

By LYNDA BIRKE and MIKE MICHAEL Despite the controversy surrounding animal experiments, we know very little about how scientists who do research on animals view their work.

As we learn in Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), the third installment of the series, Dr. Zira vivisected and experimented on human captives, who in the movie year of 3955 are considered animals and thus expendable in the pursuit of scientific knowledge.

The latest salvo in Macro-Nutrient Land is the Calorie Restriction Diet, inspired by animal experiments in which mice, guppies, water fleas, yeast, spiders, Labrador retrievers, a microscopic water invertebrate called the rotifer, and rhesus monkeys are said to live longer on diets that restrict caloric intake.13 Researchers are encouraged by the longevity of a single monkey who has reached 38 years on a diet in which the portion of monkey chow — dried compressed pellets of wheat, corn, soybean, alfalfa, fish and brewer's yeast — has been cut by 30 percent compared to controls.

I'm very down to earth soft spoken, Christian woman who loves her family and animals and keeps busy, and loves to go on family outings and really loves to travel and loves gardening and my chickens, and I'm a good seamstress, I like to experiment with cooking and just really love life,, how about you

Meanwhile, Dr. Jekyll is conducting the usual lab experiments on animals before injecting himself with serum, transforming into the vicious Mr. Hyde and launching a killing spree against fellow doctors who scoffed at him.

Every living thing on the planet will naturally work to attain greater resources / mating opportunities, etc... In countless laboratory experiments, using a variety of species, from mice to primates, animals who were trained to work for rewards, continued to do so, even when given free access to another food supply.

She takes the stand that she prefers not to experiment on animals and all her studies have been on animals who have become infected or sick naturally and whose veterinary surgeons or guardians have contacted her.

Pacelle also went so far as sort of excuse Vick for his behavior because as a society we give a lot of «mixed signals» about our concern for animals — even going so far as to compare those who hunt and raise animals for food (you know, to help people survive), and to experiment on (you know, to cure diseases to kill people) to dog fighting (you know because torturing dogs for the fun of it is sort of similar to those others).