Sentences with phrase «with animal scientists»

What happens when a composer teams up with animal scientists?

David Teie, a soloist with the U.S. National Symphony Orchestra, teamed up with animal scientists and psychologists to develop an album titled Music For Cats — a series of tracks designed specifically for our feline friends» enjoyment.

For example, scientists who study microbes need to be working with animal scientists and physicians to understand what's driving interactions between microbes and animals, and between different groups of microbes.

He now plans to work with animal scientists to investigate how much they can boost the t10, c12 in cow's milk.

Not exact matches

The lesson here isn't that many sporting events would be more fun if they included unexpected intrusions by zoo animals or that scientists come up with some pretty weird experiments (though both, in my opinion, are true).

All the animals completed a series of cognitive tests at the start of the study and were injected with a substance that allows scientists to track changes in their brain structures.

Food scientists are examining animal products at the molecular level and sourcing plants with matching proteins and nutrients to create delicious plant - based meats, eggs, and dairy products that are healthier and more sustainable than conventional animal products.

GFI reports that as their scientists investigate further, they have become more optimistic — because clean meat is so much more efficient than animal - based meat.102 One of their senior scientists, Dr. Liz Specht, has met with venture capital firms and other venture investors to present technology plans of specific clean meat companies and their pathways to commercialization.103 GFI further reports that, based partly on her analysis, many leading venture capital investors and firms have become much more interested in clean meat companies.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

He adds that the scientists unwilling to attribute intentionality to animals are generally those with little direct experience with the behavior of nonhuman primates (DNCC 221).

«Love» exists and has been studied by scientists, but there is a huge difference between actually having a relationship with another human being, or even an animal that you can characterize as «loving» and thinking there is some all - powerful unseen being out there that loves you.

We shall probably have to leave the question of our corporal relationship with the animals to the natural scientists.

Our brilliant minded scientists have been able to prove that no your sky daddy did not create our universe and no your sky daddy did not create man, and no your sky daddy did not have anything to do with animal life... we can back all of those with physical evidence... your god delusion has only existed for a mere 2700 years.We have far greater and more accurate numbers from science that tend to make more sense.

«When GFI's scientists started working on this issue in June 2016, Friedrich told them explicitly that GFI does not need to promote clean meat — if we think it can not become cost - competitive with the products of industrial animal agriculture then we should stop promoting it and focus on plant - based meat.»

GFI reports that as their scientists investigate further, they have become more optimistic — because clean meat is so much more efficient than animal - based meat.102 One of their senior scientists, Dr. Liz Specht, has met with venture capital firms and other venture investors to present technology plans of specific clean meat companies and their pathways to commercialization.103 GFI further reports that, based partly on her analysis, many leading venture capital investors and firms have become much more interested in clean meat companies.

Numerous scientists and other experts [PDF] have spoken clearly about the animal welfare problems with battery cages.

With the objective of finding iguanas, assessing their health, tagging them and releasing them to their respective habitats, the group of scientists obtained unique slow - motion footage that shows off the animals» speed and strength.

Forward - thinking scientists, many with funding from PETA and its international affiliates, are developing methods for studying diseases and testing products that don't require the use of animals and are actually relevant to human health.

1991: Adrian Morrison — Dr. Morrison, a veterinarian whose scientific research focuses on the neural mechanisms associated with sleep, defended the right of scientists to use animals in their research and promoted responsible research practices among those scientists.

That's a sign that these animals had lost their fear of humans, even without the researchers deliberately breeding the most human - friendly mice, as scientists had done with the foxes.

Scientists at Duke Health who developed the new model also discovered that targeting a brain receptor in mice with this type of autism could ease repetitive behaviors and improve learning in some animals.

Just by looking at the activation of these two neural populations, the scientists could reliably determine whether an animal was interacting with a male or a female.

The scientists measured how much the soil animals ate using «bait lamina strips»: small sticks with holes in which the researchers filled substrate that resembled the organic matter in the soil.

Language seems to set humans apart from other animals, but scientists can not just hand monkeys and birds an interspecies SAT to determine which linguistic abilities are singularly those of Homo sapiens and which we share with other animals.

But whether scientists are copying animal DNA in its entirety or simply manipulating parts of it, working with the genetic code of animals has proven trickier than initially thought.

Interviews with scientists and other experts to assess the relative health of some 60 protected areas of tropical forest in 36 different nations reveal that roughly half are continuing to lose unique species of plants and animals.

Working with scientists from the Moorea Biocode Project, which aims to create a complete inventory of the island's species, Liittschwager photographed more than 600 different plants and animals here.

With the advent of new gene editing techniques, some less common animal models such as octopuses may find their way into scientists» toolkits.

The scientists then came up with a list of common facial expressions and body movements, based on visits to 106 cats across three animal shelters in the United Kingdom.

Some scientists who have been targeted by animal rights terrorists would probably not be comfortable with this either,» Wallisch says.

A 2005 National Academy of Sciences report documented a shortage of veterinarian scientists in the biomedical enterprise, noting that few National Institutes of Health (NIH)-- funded competitive grants involving animals were awarded to principal investigators with veterinary training.

Scientists have already established that the neocortex and the mushroom bodies are larger in social species such as humans and wasps, as compared with solitary animals such as bears and lone spiders.

One way to deal with the public distaste for animal experimentation would be for scientists using animals to become more media - savvy.

Scientists had suspected that long and slender animals would have a sand - swimming advantage over creatures with different body shapes.

So, sit back with your stimulant of choice and enjoy New Scientist «s round - up of animals on drugs.

In the case of CHD2, scientists collaborating with the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium used antisense technology to rapidly generate zebrafish larvae with a partial loss of function of this gene, and were then able to detect epileptic seizures in these animals using electrographic analysis (this method is very similar to electroencephalography, or EEG, which is used to analyze seizures in humans).

When scientists genetically engineer mice without the genes, the animals end up with a range of neurological disorders.

But elsewhere in the animal kingdom advances have been just as dramatic, if relatively unsung, with scientists pioneering techniques to improve artificial insemination and store frozen sperm, eggs -LSB-...]

The ability to automate morphology assays on 3D cell cultures is a powerful tool, but some scientists are now pushing the technology even further, with algorithms that can classify structures in living animals and clinical specimens.

As populations of sea lions and seals in northern habitats continue to decline, satellites are providing scientists with a better understanding of the animals» feeding patterns.

Nevertheless, there remain many gaps in scientists» understanding of the effects of blasts on the human brain; most new knowledge has come from experiments with animals.

Chris Magee, head of policy at the pressure group Understanding Animal Research (UAR) in London, tells ScienceInsider that withholding information does not help scientists and their work, because it leaves a «vacuum that activists can fill in with misleading information.»

Scientists warn that this level of activity may be associated with negative health effects in aquatic organisms, other animals and humans.

Scientists broke down and rebuilt the immune systems of mice with diseases that mimic type 1 diabetes and MS.. The treatment stopped the progress of diabetes in four out of five mice and put animals with a disease similar to MS into remission,

However, according to new results presented at the International Symposium on Acoustic Communication by Animals, the caterpillars have learned to mimic birds» distress calls by forcing air through holes in their bodies with an accordionlike contraction, The Scientist reports.

By introducing a single human gene into mice, scientists endowed the animals with full - color vision.

As changes in regulations cause landfills to be cleaned up, covered and closed, scientists expect the behavior of scavenging animals to change — with potential consequences for other species, ecosystems and human - animal interactions.

«That suggests the problem lies with the immune response of the obese animals rather than the antibodies themselves,» said first author Erik Karlsson, Ph.D., a staff scientist in the Schultz - Cherry laboratory.

Scientists in other countries are more likely to work with fetal cells in efforts to modify an animal's genetic makeup so that its milk contains drugs for human use.

Scientists have long thought the ocean sunfish (Mola mola) was the largest of the bony fishes, a group of animals with skeletons made of bone instead of cartilage.