In effect, he says, cats are still fundamentally wild animals despite years of domestication.
The meat and dairy industries have expressed concerns that consumers might shun food from cloned animals, despite the F.D.A.'s assurances.
Chemists doing test-tube research posted thrilling results, but biologists couldn't achieve anything comparable in living animals, despite years of trying.
Licensing for drugs and vaccines against these deadly agents must be based on testing in laboratory animals, despite the limitations of such work.
The previously imprisoned animals, despite their elevated stress levels, were much more likely to approach the ambiguous bucket than were a control group of ewes.
Dr. Venter has a record of technical and managerial successes in sequencing genomes, first of bacteria and now of animals, despite assertions by critics that he would never succeed and whose skepticism seems a necessary psychological spur to his accomplishments.
With pastures nearly bald and no hay for the frigid months ahead, the family plans to sell off most of its animals despite abysmal prices to try to save breeding stock -- and its future.
Stereoscopy is highly conserved in such animals, despite its costs — the sacrifice of panoramic vision, the need for special neural and muscular mechanisms for coördinating and aligning the eyes, and, not least, for special brain mechanisms to compute depth from the disparities of the two visual images.
LD treatments failed to induce choreoathetoid and dystonic dyskinesias in these animals despite chronic intermittent high dose administration.
Also, we noted differences in bone micro-architecture between animals despite common loading history, possibly due to differences caused by the stochastic nature of the bone remodelling process.
However, to date, there have been few rigorously-designed studies aimed at examining the impact of AAIs on therapy animals, despite a notable potential for stress.
