This can be for assay development, where you need to have the same animal to test drugs and to compare drugs with other people working in other countries.
She is put through a mini-bullfight complete with a matador, picadores (lancers on horseback) and banderilleros (who thrust barbed darts into the animal) to test her speed, strength and instinct to charge.
In hindsight (such as following a negative rabies test on the animal in question) it often does seem that rabies prevention shots are unnecessary.
Kosan has generated several hundred variants of the antibiotic, some of which wipe out strains of bacteria that are resistant to most other marketed drugs--in test tube and animal experiments, anyway.
OZ-277, has proved more effective than artemisinin itself in both the test-tube and in animal models of malaria.
But an important by-product will be that researchers working on the psychiatric drugs of the future will be able to test them in genetically engineered animal models that more closely resemble human reality.
Another failed experiment with elephants involved the mirror test a classic evaluation of whether an animal recognizes its own reflection.
Cattle can only move onto a TB restricted farm prior to the completion of a veterinary risk assessment and completion of a TB test, carried out 60 days after an infected animal has left the farm.
At present, based on animal models where human breast cancer tumors are grown in animals, this test detects breast cancers with 100% specificity, high sensitivity, and good localization.
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For more than 20 years, U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has imposed excessive and hugely expensive field test design and other burdens for plants crafted with gene-splicing, the most precise and predictable techniques of biotechnology.
Of the following four adjectives that might plausibly be applied to the snow leopard, the animal appropriated by Apple for the name of its latest operating system, which do you think test well with focus groups?
At age four, they were also given a skin-prick test to see if they had any of the most common allergies, including dust mite, animal fur, pollen, milk, eggs or peanuts.
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