Alexza's human trials may fail to replicate the success of the earlier animal study.
As it turns out, the progression of melanoma in mice is very similar to the progression in humans, making this animal study more relevant for potential human applications than most.
Results of an animal study published by Ohio State University researcher Qinghua Sun in late 2010 revealed that early exposure to fine particulates led to the accumulation of abdominal fat and insulin resistance in mice even if they ate a normal diet.
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Neither company will comment on its work, but Pfizer recently published an animal study showing that a leukotriene blocker called CP-105, 696 shrank artery plaques dramatically in mice that were fed the compound for 35 days, as compared with a control group that didn't get the compound.
Judges allowed jurors to return these blockbuster verdicts based on circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy, such as the fact that two companies shared a director in 1934, or the defendants belonged to a group that shelved as inconclusive an animal study in the 1940s that might have indicated asbestos can cause lung cancer.
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It hardly comes as a surprise that she decided to switch from chemistry to the study of animal communication.
Once the genetic sequence of the zebrafish is known, scientists will be able to make changes to the animal's DNA to study how human inherited diseases might arise.
Born in Yorkshire in 1925 into a working-class family, Prof Edwards served in the British army during World War II before returning home to study first agricultural sciences and then animal genetics.
The Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT), along with the Tayside Beaver Study Group, has been monitoring the animal at the Loch of the Lowes since it was first spotted last summer.
He has pioneered the use of technology to study cancer-associated genes and to construct animal models of many human cancer types, including cancers of the lung, pancreas, brain, and ovaries.
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Subjected not just to constant scrutiny but to deeply personal poking and twitching, the company and its two-legged resources themselves became a study: Of how a menacing axis of animal-rights zealots can nearly starve an enterprise they aim to ruin.
The hope was born last year, with the publication of a study by Ron Brakke, a Dallas-based animal-health consultant.
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The minister said the village would be developed as a tourist spot, and animal lovers and researchers would be able to come here to study the pachyderm.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources followed with its own study, which found that when lead bullets explode inside an animal, imperceptible particles of the metal can infect meat up to a foot and a half away from the bullet wound -- farther than previously thought.
"After about 10 passages, we found the virus had acquired the ability to transmit" from animal to animal, said Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and study co-author.
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Alan Beck , director of the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue's School of Veterinary Medicine and a principal investigator in the study, says they placed Aibo, a robotic dog made by Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ), in the homes of isolated senior citizens to determine whether the robotic pet can improve quality of life.
Mathieu's quick rise to stardom parallels that of the honey badger, an animal that was little understood until the mid-1990s when Keith and Colleen Begg undertook the first intensive study of it.
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