In one, scientists at the University of Chicago put two rats in an arena, one held by a restrainer, the other free.
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In Prof Nicolelis' first experiment, the encoder rat got a bigger reward if the decoder also made the right choice, leading to two-way neural collaboration between the two rats.
Duke University isn't deterred by our behavior -- if anything, it just took oversharing literally by connecting two rats' minds in an experiment, first in a lab and ultimately online.
Cook and Ravi Bopara ran between the wickets like two blind rats rather than the Essex team-mates they are.
Dr Pusztai and Dr Ewen found few significant differences between the two groups of rats.
The study took two sets of rats, both of who were subjected to an environment that simulated weightlessness.
What the researchers did was give rats two substances found in foods: Omega-3 fatty acids, a kind of fat that the body can't make enough of on its own, and uridine, one of the building blocks of DNA, which promotes a cell's energy-making process.
They also administered oral doses of the statins to two groups of female rats, one group with intact ovaries and another group with the ovaries removed to mimic the effects of menopause.
The paired and unpaired rats in the two boxes were subsequently exposed to five tones used in the fear-conditioning phase of the experiment.
Investigators found that two jails were infested with rats and roaches.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard how Pelletier had been warned on two occasions about the risk of rats.
To chase away rats, Nathaniel had two sticks on which he had scrawled the names Beethoven and Brahms.
Besides, the two researchers say, mice and rats are especially susceptible to cancer.
The benefits were seen even after rats had been treated two weeks after their surgery and lasted for at least 28 days.
After 24 hours, the so-called paired and unpaired rats were placed in two boxes, one of which had been previously occupied for three hours by another rat of the same species that imparted its scent.
The scientists mixed it with the VEGF and injected the combination into the hearts of two groups of test animals, rats and pigs, in which they had induced heart attacks. (Pig hearts bear significant similarities to human ones.) In both cases, instead of being washed away, the VEGF stayed on the lattice and slowly got released over several weeks.
Rats will be killed on two islands in the Isles of Scilly as part of a 25-year project to help protect seabirds.
Rats were also believed to have caused two power cuts in the last month, shutting down some of the plant's cooling systems for spent fuel pools.
As adults, these rats have a reduced ability to distinguish between two sounds played in succession less than a fifth of a second apart, even when rewarded with food to make the effort.
It showed that rats, when totally deprived of sleep, would, after two or three weeks, drop dead.
She claimed Ammanford had developed a problem with rats since the council stopped offering a pest control service about two years ago.
The device is currently being tested in rats and is expected to begin a human trial in a year or two, he said.
As the rats did this memory task, electrodes in the implants recorded signals between two areas of their brains involved in storing new information in long-term memory.
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Working on a leash, one of the group's trained African rats can clear an area in 30 minutes that would normally take someone with a metal detector two days, Mr. Cox said.
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