Guinea pigs of various colors were included, including full black guinea pigs.
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Cytomegalovirus infects only humans: To study the disease in, say, guinea pigs, researchers have had to use a species of cytomegalovirus that infects only guinea pigs.
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PetSmart, the same company that brought you Halloween costumes for guinea pigs, has introduced a line of festive outfits for guinea pigs looking to get real jolly this holiday season.
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"In effect, you are human guinea pigs," Searcy tells kids.
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Guinea pigs love to pretend that the floor is lava.
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Namely, geese, chickens, cats, guinea pigs and other adorable critters.
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"People don't want to be guinea pigs," Mier told CNN.
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The new location holds as many as 100 guinea pigs.
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He used to keep players after practice as "guinea pigs."
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Mice and guinea pigs fed phthalates also had testicular damage.
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Los Angeles Guinea Pig Rescue currently houses around 400 guinea pigs.
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At this early stage, she said, users are basically guinea pigs.
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And had anyone checked on Mr. Skripal's cats and guinea pigs?
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SUNDAY VARIETY COLUMN Mike Shenk makes us his lucky guinea pigs.
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The first group of these human guinea pigs were 14 healthy men.
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Or will she choose the man who imports guinea pigs from Peru?
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They were the first human guinea pigs to have endured OxyContin tests.
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Cages for roosters, hens, ducks, cockatiels, iguanas, hamsters, guinea pigs, and rabbits.
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In fact, the hardest part is having to care for guinea pigs.
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" Renee said, with a broad smile, "So we're being unwilling guinea pigs.
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You used them as guinea pigs, what did you do to them?
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Its first guinea pigs, as it were, will be dogs suffering from cancer.
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Just two guinea pigs musing over the relative merits of pumpkin spice lattes.
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And some of us out here are just the guinea pigs for that.
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But we sorely hope that trick-or-treaters aren't its first guinea pigs.
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After seeing ten cooked guinea pigs, a silver bullet isn't going to rate.
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Some guinea pigs were able to twist with ease, and some had trouble.
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"Let's get the technology right before we're using human beings as guinea pigs."
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We've served families who had parakeets, parrots, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, and chinchillas.
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Former employees describe how Theranos recruited drifters they suspected of hepatitis as guinea pigs.
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Read This Next: We're All Guinea Pigs in a Failed Decades-Long Diet Experiment
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Salmonella outbreaks have been linked to pet turtles, guinea pigs, reptiles, and other animals.
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Lauren Conrad's adorable baby boy made a few new acquaintances recently — two guinea pigs!
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After all, there's no shame in letting everyone else be the iOS guinea pigs.
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But editors — they're a whole different crop of beauty-product (and procedure) guinea pigs.
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We've already had Austen and zombies, Austen and game theory, Austen and guinea pigs.
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And it's grabbing an opportunity to do more A-B testing with eager guinea pigs.
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"It must be admitted that women make superb guinea pigs," said Wolfson at the hearings.
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We make guinea pigs out of whole populations and then we discover how many die.
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We had dogs, cats, guinea pigs and rabbits, and that would come into our building.
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Those bananas are genetically modified, and they want human guinea pigs to test their safety.
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We don't use our own bodies as guinea pigs anymore, but it's the same theory.
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We talk about a fish named Marc Anthony and guinea pigs named Merry and Pippen.
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The guinea pigs and at least one of the cats are said to be dead.
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From those 300 brave guinea pigs, it gathered a total of 2.3 million heart rate measurements.
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Silicon Valley is looking for guinea pigs, and not to beta test a new compression algorithm.
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Some of my other girls are guinea pigs for stuff, too, but I enjoy trying things.
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Conditioning had killed his rats, but could it treat disease, as in the Russian guinea pigs?
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"My friends are my guinea pigs; they have been wearing all of these forever," she says.
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Everyone's still exploring aspects like folding mechanisms, essentially making early adopters guinea pigs this time out.
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These vets are sick and tired of being treated like guinea pigs, and turned into zombies.
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I can hear the guinea pigs stirring, but that might be the residue of a nightmare.
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But the robots — about the size of guinea pigs and only slightly more menacing — kept coming.
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" Instead of doing anything to stop that, however, the company used the victims as "guinea pigs.
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He zips around Eagle Rock on an electric longboard, and keeps two guinea pigs as pets.
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"Essentially, our kids have been used as guinea pigs by the e-cigarette companies," she says.
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That included recently rescuing 60 guinea pigs from a home after neighbors complained about the smell.
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There's a pool table and games if you want to interact with your fellow guinea pigs.
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Both guinea pigs left wishing they had the spare cash to hire Natalie as their life coach.
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But it's never been used solely for the purpose of naming small, fluffy guinea pigs—until now.
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Handling reptiles like turtles and other small pets, such as guinea pigs, have been linked to cases.
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Look, if guinea pigs can wear Halloween costumes, we see nothing strange about hamsters having tiny beds.
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The company also offers free health checks, nail clippings, and advice for pet parents to guinea pigs.
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The guinea pigs found at the site were decorated with earrings and necklaces made from colorful string.
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It feels like Facebook's algorithm is turning citizens into guinea pigs to test the limits of democracy.
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Greater Manchester's 2.7m people make good guinea pigs for the experiment in combining health and social care.
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The new breed of polyphasic sleepers are effectively guinea pigs, and Dijk is inclined to be cautious.
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"It's not like we are starting to test this using our customers as guinea pigs," he said.
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Most likely I wouldn't go blind, because their tech had worked great in dogs and guinea pigs.
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He is best known for sense-warping installations in which people become both observers and guinea pigs.
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The case also solidified the idea of African Americans being cast and used as medical guinea pigs.
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They also go wedding dress shopping and have bachelor and bachelorette parties with their fellow guinea pigs.
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Racecar drivers might make for good guinea pigs to test out high speed data and communications services.
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This year, PetSmart is back with a whole new round of Halloween costumes made just for guinea pigs.
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Perhaps Facebook really is trying to make good on promises to stop treating its users like guinea pigs.
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Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch accused Facebook of using developing countries as "guinea pigs" in an experiment.
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Turns out there are two kinds of people, and apparently two kinds of guinea pigs, in the world.
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The guinea pigs likely suffocated after being buried alive; no signs of trauma were visible on the animals.
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Dogs have holiday pajamas, cats have advent calendars, and now, finally, guinea pigs have their own holiday swag.
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Based on their analyses, the scientists adjusted the vaccine regimen and tested it in guinea pigs and monkeys.
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Innocent children and families would serve as human guinea pigs to test the long-term results of exposure.
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"Ryan's mom, Ryan's sister, my mom, my sisters, my grandma are all my fashion guinea pigs," Mendes explains.
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My son put the ultrasound pictures in a photo album with pictures of his beloved dead guinea pigs.
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The move alarmed human rights advocates, who questioned whether the prisoners were essentially being used as guinea pigs.
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Why did it take a crew of human guinea pigs publicly risking their lives to goad lawmakers into action?
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I don't have a child, and perhaps unsurprisingly, my Verge colleagues wouldn't volunteer their own kids as guinea pigs.
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She was called by animal control in Eureka, California, to rescue what they thought was maybe 150 guinea pigs.
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It felt both exhilarating and scary to be guinea pigs for the first major self-driving test in Europe.
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Are poor people basically being used as guinea pigs in preparation for a much broader use of these technologies?
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In medicine's wild west, patients are paying out of pocket to be guinea pigs in shady stem cell trials.
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Media reports quoted angry residents refusing to be treated as "guinea pigs" for the "superbug" or "Robo-Frankenstein" mosquito.
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This opens up a lot of options for guinea pigs looking to fill up their social calendars come December.
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According to Justin Barasky, the communications director at Priorities USA, Trump's GOP opponents effectively served as Clinton's guinea pigs.
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Another study found autistic children were calmer and interacted more when in the presence of guinea pigs than toys.
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The embassy released a tongue-in-cheek statement inquiring into the fate of Skripal's two cats and guinea pigs.
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Parents of former and current students at AltSchool told Business Insider the startup treats their children like "guinea pigs."
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And we're not only talking about rats or mice; this disdain often applies to squirrels, chinchillas, guinea pigs and hamsters.
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Who will win the battle of supremacy between Custard and Pablo the guinea pigs and be crowned fastest parsley-eater?
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Long ignored by pet costumers, guinea pigs started getting outfits tailor-made for their tiny frames a few years ago.
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An angry book enumerating the many perils of being a patient — "100,000,000 Guinea Pigs" — was a best-seller in 1933.
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Every now and then he gets a piece of fun archaic equipment and we get to be his guinea pigs.
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Until the ban on sales announced this past week, he sold porcupines, civets, guinea pigs and bamboo rats among others.
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That means some of today's college students are effectively the guinea pigs for a largely unproven mechanism for evaluating applicants.
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" The second man, listening while Tisherman explained E.P.R. to two women, announced, "We're guinea pigs—your body language says it!
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It was not in the heat of battle but with these hapless human guinea pigs that Cardona learned to kill.
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The legislation only includes animals already protected under the Animal Welfare Act, such as monkeys, dogs, cats, rabbits and guinea pigs.
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HUMAN beings domesticated several of the animals they encountered during their colonisation of the Americas—notably guinea pigs, llamas and turkeys.
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Interestingly, 66 of the 72 guinea pigs at the first site, and 27 of 28 at the second site, were juveniles.
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If the DuPonts of the world had their way, everyone would be considered human guinea pigs, much like the Castillos were.
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Historically in the US, Black bodies were used as guinea pigs for medical experimentation, subjected to abuse by white medical professionals.
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"Tesla shouldn't make guinea pigs of its buyers," said Joan Claybrook, a former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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The little Russian tortoise had gone home, too, along with the rabbits and the guinea pigs and one of the chinchillas.
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The social network has over two billion monthly users, and therefore plenty of guinea pigs on which to test subtle tweaks.
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"I think they've really used the public as their guinea pigs while profiting off it at the same time," she said.
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Drake's master plan is to bring back these dangerous alien life forms, using human guinea pigs trying to find appropriate hosts.
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If you're an astronaut, you're used to being treated both like royalty and like a lab animal—imperial guinea pigs, perhaps.
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I didn't grow up with social media, so I feel like my kids' generation is kind of the guinea pigs for it.
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By July 2, the team had completed their 100th consecutive successful sandbag test, plus the two men's tests as human guinea pigs.
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This year, hundreds of people got diarrhea from Salmonella-contaminated beef, tahini, kratom, even pet guinea pigs, to name just a few.
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Environmentalists soon sounded the alarm that consumers had become unwitting Canadian "guinea pigs" who were sold unlabeled and untrackable genetically modified food.
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"Patients who want to continue their pregnancy should not be guinea pigs, and the Nebraska Legislature should not sanction that," state Sen.
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Some imply that the teacher who is gay himself, has been using local children as guinea-pigs in an unwanted social experiment.
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But without more research on how these compounds can effect us, many cannabis consumers are still playing guinea pigs with their highs.
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Each cycle brings a rollercoaster of emotions and physical challenges, as I found out as one of their first human guinea pigs.
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They say they are happy to act as human guinea-pigs if it means getting closer to their dream of becoming astronauts.
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There is only one good supply of these human guinea pigs: epilepsy patients who have proved unresponsive to drugs and need surgery.
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The more classes I teach, I'll probably use my students as guinea pigs and start to build upon it brick by brick.
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Previous studies have shown that human embryonic stem cells improve heart function in smaller animals such as mice, rats and guinea pigs.
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"Nevada should not use prisoners as guinea pigs in experimental executions, even if they ask to die," tweeted the ACLU of Nevada.
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And when you think about it, today's kids are guinea pigs for the giant social experiment of free and open public speech.
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Most of the villagers were campesinos, working small family plots, perhaps keeping goats and sheep along with rabbits, guinea pigs and cows.
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In the years after the Zika virus was discovered in 1947, researchers tested it in rhesus monkeys, guinea pigs, rabbits and mice.
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If the network is tasked with learning how to spot cats, dogs, guinea pigs and gerbils, then it'll have four output nodes.
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She knew from childhood experiences with guinea pigs, tortoises and her favorite dog, Rusty, that animals have personalities that are quite familiar.
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" She applied the idea to women's clothes and cosmetics, "using my students as guinea pigs to see if it really held weight.
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"They cannot play with us like this, we are not guinea pigs, it is our future at stake," said eighth-grader Milan.
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Unaccompanied minors are the de-facto vanguard of the greatest migration since the Second World War—its innovators and its guinea pigs.
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Species affected by the rule change include common pets such as dogs, cats, rabbits and guinea pigs, as well as some farm animals.
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A lot of that is being accomplished through machine learning and all of us acting as guinea pigs while we use our devices.
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These were domestic animals, pets, like hamsters or guinea pigs, except a lot smarter and more social, quicker to bond with their keepers.
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As to why the Incas sacrificed guinea pigs, Valdez said the reasons aren't immediately obvious, but he was happy to propose some theories.
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The color of the guinea pigs, earrings, and necklaces, he said, likely conveyed important symbolism, as color coding was important in Inca ritualism.
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The U.S. Men's and Women's Soccer Teams are now guinea pigs for Zika prevention ... at least if a repellent company has its way.
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What I'm not advocating for is to put these cars on public streets and use the public as guinea pigs testing these technologies.
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In recent lab experiments, Friedman and his colleagues found their vaccine was 98 percent effective at blocking genital herpes infections among guinea pigs.
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Some sensitive higher primates react to poison ivy to some extent, as do guinea pigs, which often resemble humans in their allergic reactions.
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And although elephants and rock hyraxes (which resemble guinea pigs) do not have descending testicles, RXFP2 and INSL3 are still intact in both.
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Hydra has its own team of chemists and human guinea pigs to test each product and medics on standby to give safety advice.
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Some sell more unusual fare, including live snakes, turtles and cicadas, guinea pigs, bamboo rats, badgers, hedgehogs, otters, palm civets, even wolf cubs.
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Nerve is brave and tender, and an example of why journalists treating themselves as guinea pigs should never completely go out of style.
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Inspired in high school by a book that described American consumers as unwitting guinea pigs for the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, Mrs.
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Six months later, they dissected the other guinea pigs and discovered the lost otoconia did not return, and new otoconia failed to grow.
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With a liberal amount of imagination, an observer may see how they resemble guinea pigs, their close cousins, in their similarly thick snouts.
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We're All Guinea Pigs in a Failed Decades-Long Diet Experiment There Is Almost No Good Science in the Movie 'What the Health'
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The machine was able to reduce the contaminated water from 147 TDS down to 5, which our guinea pigs judges then proceeded to taste.
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Whereas a 1993 study used guinea pigs, these were pig brains, and they showed more activity—similar to that of someone in a coma.
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As the annual tradition of being outraged by the latest Starbucks holiday cup continues, these guinea pigs are still riffing on Pumpkin Spice Lattes.
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These are normal people who signed up back in 2017 to serve as guinea pigs for the Google spinoff's experiments in self-driving transportation.
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But if they come, the football aficionados of Amapala may learn what it is like to be guinea pigs in a daring economic experiment.
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The young guinea pigs, he said, may have been favored because of their tender meat, and possibly due to important symbolic associations with youth.
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Fascinatingly, Swenson suspects the dressed-up guinea pigs served as substitutes for humans, and they may have been treated in very person-like ways.
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He secretly befriends his guinea pigs, and promises to help them get to the actual Good Place, via a portal in Bad Place headquarters.
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Archival military video of the explosion was included in a 1993 Finnish documentary called "Human Nuclear Guinea Pigs," according to The New York Times.
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"They're just using us as guinea pigs, to see what happens to people who live in a contaminated area," Francisco Sabiote, a plumber, said.
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Back then, the government placed hundreds of human guinea pigs — wearing only shorts and long socks — in the front areas of the test zones.
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Marion Sims was a gynecologist in the 1800s who purchased Black women slaves and used them as guinea pigs for his untested surgical experiments.
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One of the generals involved "checked out the pills on some guinea pigs 'because I wanted to be sure they worked,'" the report reads.
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They then exposed two groups of test guinea pigs to loud-ish noise—110db, about equivalent to a typical amplified gig—for an hour.
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The astronauts will also be guinea pigs for research into the effects of extreme low gravity on bone marrow, and blood produced in bone marrow.
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He's a puppet master with invisible strings, injecting the guinea pigs of G-Force with human intelligence, giving Babe the pig complex thought and speech.
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With over 1.8 billion users connected to just its main Facebook app, the company has a massive funnel of potential guinea pigs for its experiments.
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For guinea pigs that don't want to go the costume direction, but still want to up their holiday cheer, there are also several sweater options.
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Past infamies like the Tuskegee syphilis study embedded suspicion among African Americans that they might be used as "guinea pigs" for testing vaccines and treatments.
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Such is the game of chicken that team ticket offices are playing right now, and fans, to mix a zoological metaphor, are the guinea pigs.
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Oxbow Animal Health is following suit for small animals with its Enriched Life edible toys for chinchillas, gerbils, hamsters, Guinea pigs, mice, rabbits, and rats.
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African-Americans have indeed been used as guinea pigs, the unwitting victims of full-body radiation or unnecessary surgeries conducted in the name of research.
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This research was based on tests done on guinea pigs, and not people, so we haven't seen the hypothesis control-tested on our species yet.
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The project has been important to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who signed off on using the company's customers as guinea pigs, one of the people said.
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It's what made TechCrunch guinea pigs Matt Burns, and myself, have trouble distinguishing just how fast we were moving while we had our VR headsets on.
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"This is unethical and immoral legislation that makes women guinea pigs in an unmonitored, inappropriate experiment," said Vicki Saporta, the president of the National Abortion Federation.
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Instead, I'm going to let other people be the guinea pigs for this experiment and see how things go after a couple of Switch firmware updates.
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As such, the 100 guinea pigs at Tambo Viejo "represent the single largest find known for the entire former [Inca] territory," wrote Valdez in the study.
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Torn between pride and skepticism, idealism and disappointment, they are at once actors in a sweeping international story and guinea pigs in a risky political experiment.
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In 214, the side story was a brown bear named Bruno with a taste for guinea pigs, pet rabbits, and sheep, equal parts funny and menacing.
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Some animals died in transit to the shelter, and two guinea pigs died while being treated, Renee Sortman, Edgewater Animal Shelter administrative assistant, told The Post.
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David Prior, the co-founder of PRIOR, a members-only travel company which plans worldwide journeys and events, has also used his family as guinea pigs.
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The researchers had wanted to see what unchecked syphilis would do to the human body and used these men as guinea pigs, without their informed consent.
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Many unwilling guinea pigs were outed as HIV-positive when Jammeh broadcast his healing sessions on GRTS, the state-run television channel watched by thousands of Gambians.
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British authorities say that once a vet was able to visit Skripal's sealed off home, two guinea pigs were found dead and the family's cat was euthanized.
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The automaker "continues to use its customers and other motorists, bikers, and pedestrians sharing the road with distracted or sleeping Tesla drivers as guinea pigs," he said.
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ARBA, which promotes the development of 49 breeds of domestic rabbits and 13 breeds of guinea pigs, is made up of over 23,000 members across the world.
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Instagram account The Lava Empire, while sounding like a name from high fantasy, shows the adventures of guinea pigs Ella, Bella, Muffin, Phoebe, Puffy, Fluffy and Bianca.
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Why it matters: "We're not allowed to do this in guinea pigs in this country let alone human subjects," herpes expert Anne Wald told Kaiser Health News.
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"My sisters are definitely my guinea pigs and then my mom always keeps me grounded," Mendes told PeopleStyle at her show kicking off New York Fashion Wee.
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Leaving the development of driverless cars to unregulated competition, the direction the current administration and Congress appear to be headed, could make us all human guinea pigs.
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In 2014, USAMRIID, the CDC and other pharmacological labs developed a drug that protected primates and guinea pigs from Marburg, preventing it from spreading inside its host.
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The guinea pigs in their cage listen; they chew on their timothy hay, raise their heads; they worry about Hazel, though they are rodents and not lagomorphs.
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"The American people should not serve as guinea pigs for the e-cigarette and vaping industry or be subject to their misleading marketing and advertising," Krishnamoorthi wrote.
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He had them gobble rabbits whole, or hunks of beef fat wrapped in the pelts of guinea pigs, and tested them in his giant-snake-size chamber.
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Jennifer Urso Doggart, a mother of four from Jefferson, Ohio, said she feared babies would be used as "guinea pigs" to test the new allergy prevention guideline.
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Germany's passion for pets is well known, and billions of euros are spent in the country each year on cats, guinea pigs, canaries, parakeets and the like.
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In rehearsal for a work called "Parrots and Guinea Pigs," Ms. Lagravière took part in an exercise where two dancers repeatedly bit her thighs while she screamed.
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The agency didn't even require Cyberonics to inform patients that there was concern about the death rate, or that they were effectively being made unwitting guinea pigs.
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But Silicon Valley immortalists are humanity's guinea pigs: They fund antiaging research, they experiment on themselves, and they'll be the first consumers of approved treatments, regardless of price.
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I wanted to distinguish between people I can appreciate trying to deal with immediate, real problems in their lives and the ones who characterize themselves as guinea pigs.
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While they enjoy flexibility and a convenient way to supplement a primary income, they also must act as guinea pigs uncovering the shortcomings of the industry's support network.
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The name seems to refer to the old "floor is lava" game, because all of the guinea pigs refuse to touch the stretch of floor between two rugs.
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Some victims guinea pigs players enjoyed the experience so much they immediately ordered their own Muse, at least proving that this "sport" can get people interested in meditation.
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"For better or worse, the mayor made this Faustian bargain with a multibillion dollar company that's using citizens as guinea pigs in its driverless car experiment," Claypool said.
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In March the company drastically overhauled its app's camera feature, and released a prototype app called "twtr" where adventurous users can be guinea pigs for the company's experiments.
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Details on preclinical tests are generally kept confidential, but the company confirmed tests were conducted on mice and dogs; rats, primates, and guinea pigs are also often used.
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But our kids should not be guinea pigs in this process, and adult smokers deserve objective information about which products will actually help reduce their risk of disease.
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None of this sordid backstory is mentioned in the T Magazine emails, which are mostly limited to musings on guinea pigs and melancholy of a specifically Jewish nature.
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Lest we forget, we are all guinea pigs in an enormous experiment that would be laughable if it did not involve a substantial portion of our net worth.
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Local artists learned to paint in styles popular in Europe, introducing Peruvian landscapes, maize, guinea pigs and parrots into biblical scenes, and blending Renaissance, baroque and Incan symbols.
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Children can get up close and personal with the animals by joining farmers on the twice-daily feed walks, brushing the cows or petting the resident guinea pigs.
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Its population surged: The Haven Humane Society became home to 600 dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, box turtles and one tortoise, according to The Guardian.
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"Current strategies for drug cardiotoxicity assessment involve a combination of preclinical studies using a variety of animal species," including rats, mice, rabbits, guinea-pigs, dogs, and pigs, she said.
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She spent her 16th birthday in Peru making bricks out of mud to help villagers construct shelters for guinea pigs, an important source of protein in the mountainous region.
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After the guinea pigs were buried, a clay floor from an Inca dwelling was constructed on top of them, "thus sealing the offering animals," wrote Valdez in the study.
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Rabbits may look very different from guinea pigs, but that didn't stop two owners from trying to convince police officers that their long-eared, long-limbed rabbit was one.
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Sometimes solutions can be as simple as swapping out environmentally baneful kitchen equipment for greener options, as was the case for noma, one of the organization's first guinea pigs.
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According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), secondhand smoke is also harmful to household pets like dogs, cats, birds, fish, and guinea pigs who are exposed to it.
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In 2012, Facebook data scientists used nearly seven hundred thousand people as guinea pigs, feeding them happy or sad posts to test whether emotion is contagious on social media.
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All Fedorenko's guinea pigs, including me, also took a daunting nonverbal memory test: squares on a grid flash on and off as you frantically try to recall their location.
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Our reporter followed an exodus of gerbils, mice, corn snakes, turtles, rabbits, guinea pigs, geckos, and frogs — not to mention Lucy the chinchilla, above — in New York City alone.
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Studies in this field are also "hard to randomize," said Dr. O'Haire, whose own research has looked at the potential benefits of classroom guinea pigs for children with autism.
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Jack says it currently has 180 animals including dogs, cats, bunnies, guinea pigs, and even baby squirrels, and fortunately ... so many people are at home and happy to help.
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The goal of the experiment was to test whether "germ-free" rats and guinea pigs that lacked gut bacteria would respond differently to sugar and starches than normal animals.
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Humans and guinea pigs are wildly different animals, but if I sold the crystals in my ears today, it's safe to assume I'd never get them back in full.
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Even Spinraza's newness — the sense that those who sign on are being guinea pigs — wouldn't stop me if I were hankering for a medical solution to my life's complications.
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The guinea pigs will start off testing the sort of semi-autonomous features available to anyone willing to pony up for a new Volvo (or Tesla, Cadillac, Nissan, or Mercedes).
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In one series of experiments, he repeatedly warmed guinea pigs' skin at the same time as giving them injections (small doses of bacteria, for example) that triggered an immune response.
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Guinea pigs were domesticated at least 5,000 years ago, Valdez told Gizmodo, representing "an important element of Andean culture, next to coca leaves and chicha," the latter being fermented beverages.
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MEXICO CITY - Catholic faithful brought their cats, dogs, ducks and guinea pigs to church in Mexico City on Sunday where the pets received a blessing in an old-age tradition.
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"With the closure hopefully in the past, the 14th Street Coalition does not want their neighborhoods to be guinea pigs with extremely disruptive changes to their safety," a statement read.
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They shouldn't be used as guinea pigs while scientists determine exactly how risky football really is; instead, students should be protected until researchers can prove the sport is acceptably safe.
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He said his parents and in-laws — and their family dogs — were buried among the 80,000 pets interred at the cemetery, a group that includes turtles, ferrets and guinea pigs.
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"We simply have no idea what the long-term health implications of these products are, and people who are using them are essentially turning themselves into guinea pigs," Stein said.
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But when Chana begged Mengele not to separate her twin sisters he seized the opportunity for new guinea pigs and sent an SS officer to retrieve Laks from the crematorium.
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Photo: GettyThis week, some passengers traveling through the international airport in Sydney, Australia will be the first guinea pigs in a program that intends to replace the passport with facial scans.
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Then he gave them—and another group of guinea pigs that hadn't had this conditioning—a normally lethal dose of Vibrio cholerae bacteria, at the same time as warming their skin.
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TOKYO — In the humble zoo, among the small cages of owls, guinea pigs and raccoons, Japan's oldest elephant stands in a concrete pen about the size of half a basketball court.
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Self-improvement types who aren't afraid to be their own guinea pigs are rigging up their brains to electric currents to chase neuroenhancement—attempting to boost their working memory, for example.
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They were posted within range of exploding bombs — in effect made to be guinea pigs in studies of how combat troops might stand up in a war fought with nuclear arms.
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But he also wished that the final edit would acknowledge the show's experimental nature, and the fallibility of its makers, as well as of the people who were its guinea pigs.
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The scientists then made a cocktail of four of the antibodies to create a treatment, which successfully cured six guinea pigs of Ebola when it was administered three days after infection.
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She got her first publishing break after penning songs for the BBC where she became "expert at writing to order on such subjects as guinea pigs, window-cleaning and horrible smells".
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Colin Dinn, the chief technology officer at Siam Commercial Bank, one of Thailand's biggest banks, says a lack of old infrastructure makes newer banks the ideal guinea pigs for technology like Ripples'.
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But now, with a new feature called Smart Photos, the app has gone one step further in turning its users into human guinea pigs whose every swipe is catalogued and carefully tracked.
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They argue that scientists can't possibly predict or control the consequences of an experiment conducted at the scale of a planet, and shouldn't be allowed to make guinea pigs of us all.
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So for those who are eager to try all the new features and are willing to be guinea pigs, there are a few important things to know about upgrading to the software.
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The company isn't focused on just cat and dog owners either; it offers thousands of products for every type of pet like birds, fish, horses, reptiles, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, and more!
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And on Thursday, after all that time apart, Netflix brought their romance guinea pigs together to talk about the experience, update us on their lives, and confront each other over past grievances.
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The worries of patients that they will be reduced to guinea pigs should be put to rest by an important principle underscored by the physician, author and cancer survivor Dr. Wendy Harpham.
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Many patient advocates say the new rules do not go far enough to reform a European system in which a top U.S. official suggested in 227 patients may be "guinea pigs" here.
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Karyn Koven, the director of college counseling, said she had heard other counselors advising students that they might not want to be the "guinea pigs," in the first administration of a new test.
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The guinea pigs, aka Universal employees, who have jumped on the broom haven't been able to handle the adventure, and the engineers are trying to figure out what's different from the Orlando ride.
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"It is essential that American workers are not treated as guinea pigs for unproven technologies that could put their lives at risk," Teamsters General Secretary Treasurer Ken Hall told the committee on Wednesday.
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Marsili, a researcher herself at Siena University in marine ecotoxicology, says she's happy to offer her family as "guinea pigs" to help them understand their own condition and help others along the way.
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So Rumaan Alam and I decided to make ourselves his 'n' hers guinea pigs in a harrowing experiment: Together, we would try out the experience of several of the most popular subscription services.
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"Our children should not be used as guinea pigs by the tobacco industry," says the letter from the Senate and House chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Caucus To End The Youth Vaping Epidemic.
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Then she read "2100,0003,2000 Guinea Pigs," a best-selling book by Arthur Kallet and Frederick J. Schlink published in 2400 whose title refers to the size of the nation's population at the time.
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The guinea pigs were injected with diphtheria toxin that had been inactivated by heating it — so they didn't get sick, but their immune systems still recognized the substance, reacted and made the antitoxin.
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After setting her guinea pigs free and lowering the thermostat — effectively covering up Dee Dee's murder for as long as possible — Gypsy is ready to say goodbye to the world she has always known.
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The Golden State Warriors got super into brain zappingAlways seeking to get a leg up on the competition, there are few as eager to turn themselves into guinea pigs of technology as professional athletes.
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Image: Lidio ValdezAn intriguing new discovery in Peru shows ritually sacrificed guinea pigs were decorated with colorful earrings and necklaces by 16th-century Incas—a finding that comes as a complete surprise to archaeologists.
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Archaeologist Lidio Valdez from the Institute of Andean Studies, with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, uncovered 100 ritually sacrificed guinea pigs at two different locations at the site.
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People like Courtney Middleton opened up her petting zoo, Cajun Cuties, as a makeshift sanctuary for displaced animal, which is currently holding horses, goats, cats, pigs, dogs, chickens, guinea pigs, and even hermit crabs.
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Before all of that can happen, however, wireless companies have tens of billions of dollars worth of infrastructure to upgrade, devices to test, and some early adopting customers to serve as 5G guinea pigs.
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Guinea pigs, or cuy, are a traditional dish in parts of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, and after taking an entrepreneurship course, Pilapaña came up with the idea to turn them into a dessert, too.
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The University of Michigan team, based on research they had done with guinea pigs, created (and patented) a device they think can retrain the brain circuitry involved in causing at least some cases of tinnitus.
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Earlier this month, legislators overrode Brownback's veto of a large tax increase set to raise $600 million — a public acknowledgement that the people of Kansas no longer want to be governed as Republican guinea pigs.
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Still, when you consider Musk's ultimate goal of sending ordinary people by the thousands to and from Mars, his desire to send a few willing guinea pigs into space soon makes a lot of sense.
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Brooklyn's wish was a huge success: all seven of the puppies found homes, and three cats, two guinea pigs and an older dog were also matched with forever families as a result of the event.
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As the Mets and Phillies faced off at Citi Field on Wednesday, they also played the role of guinea pigs in a new Major League Baseball experiment, participating in its first digital-only national broadcast.
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But leaders at the WHO and NIH were unenthusiastic, because not only did lamivudine not work in the NIH's lab, it also didn't work when they gave it to 12 guinea pigs infected with Ebola.
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So far, Marushige Confectionery has found two restaurants—Casa Afeliz Ginza and Umato, both of which are located in Tokyo—that are willing to offer the chopsticks and have their customers act as guinea pigs.
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Mozilla believes that its Test Pilot guinea pigs will be the kind of users who "consciously choose to use Firefox," aren't afraid to try something new and want to be part of a unique community.
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It was especially alarming to learn that this program that robs students of their privacy and makes them guinea pigs for the tech industry is already being used in some New York City public schools.
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Now, humans, along with other apes, guinea pigs, some bats, birds, and fish, are the only animals that would ever have this problem, because everyone else can produce their own vitamin C, no oranges needed.
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Understand, they had not made an antibiotic that would actually attack the bacteria, but they had gotten infected animals — in this case, guinea pigs, to make antibody, their immune systems' biological defense against the poison.
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The owner of an abandoned Illinois pet store has been charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after police allegedly discovered the carcasses of 41 rabbits, gerbils, guinea pigs, degus, reptiles, hamsters and mice inside, PEOPLE confirms.
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CHRISTA PIRLChrista Pirl Interiors & FurnitureNew York * Your recent leader ("In praise of human guinea pigs", December 12th) argues strongly in favour of using randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in public policy as they are used in medicine.
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The already beleaguered Vanderbeekers ind themselves caring for seven chickens, five kittens, two guinea pigs and a dog, plus their own menagerie, which includes Franz the basset hound, George Washington the cat and Paganini the rabbit.
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That they were treated like "guinea pigs," essentially left with no choice if they wanted to remain at the elite level and enlisted in a scheme where sport could not be separated from Cold War politics.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Friday about Beatrice Trum Hunter, the author of "The Natural Foods Cookbook," referred incorrectly to the 1933 book "5563,000,000 Guinea Pigs," by Arthur Kallet and Frederick J. Schlink, which influenced Ms. Hunter.
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And the Montreal-based environmentalist group GMO Vigilance has said on its website that the sale makes Canadians "guinea pigs" and the federal government should introduce labeling so consumers can identify it as a GM product.
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Like its core of heroines — plantation slave women used as gynecological guinea pigs in the South of the 1840s — "Behind the Sheet," which opened on Thursday night, resists the natural urge to shout in righteous defiance.
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The majority of the estimated 120 billion units of cosmetics packaging created per year will ultimately end up in the ocean or landfills — and, as professional guinea pigs, we go through more of it than anyone.
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First step: Pulling Gypsy inside and away from Lacey by scaring her about the fate of her guinea pigs, telling her a violent potential end for the creatures (she literally mentions their heads rolling on the porch).
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"I created it and believe in myself and know what I'm doing, but you still are very vulnerable because you just hope people like it," she says of using her friends as guinea pigs or the line.
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Read This Next: We're all Guinea Pigs in a Failed Decades-Long Diet Experiment Correction (7/17/2017): A previous version of this article stated that 1 in 10 Americans don't eat the recommended amount of produce.
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The list of customers seeking missiles, the latest weapons of mass destruction, and deadly poison gas fine-tuned by using prisoners as human Guinea pigs, is a virtual "who's who" of tyrants over the last half century.
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Careful editing revealed trends: tiki parties, portraits of household pets (including a subset category of little girls holdings guinea pigs), politically incorrect Native American costumes, people diving into pools, poses in front of television sets, people sleeping.
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The same strain of the salmonella bacteria has also been associated with pet rodents and frogs, according to the C.D.C. And different strains of salmonella have been linked to pet bearded dragons, geckos, guinea pigs and turtles.
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In the public hospitals where these plastic surgeries are free or much cheaper than in private clinics, I heard many patients declare that they were "cobaias" (guinea pigs) for the medical residents who would operate on them.
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A continuing investigation by the CDC, several states and the US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has found evidence that contact with pet guinea pigs is the likely source of the salmonella outbreak.
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SEATTLE — On a busy stretch of road in this city's Ballard neighborhood, a curious new grocery store is taking shape — and so begins another effort by Amazon to use the residents of its hometown as guinea pigs.
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Monday is Ms. Miriam's day off, and she continues to spend it the way she likes: researching new techniques at home and testing them in the evening on friends who serve as both guests and guinea pigs.
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When those same animals were exposed to virulent diphtheria bacteria making potent active toxin, they were resistant, and an extract of their blood could be injected into other guinea pigs, and transmitted the ability to withstand infection.
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An estimated 303,000 mice, rats, guinea pigs, and rabbits suffer and die from cosmetics animal testing each year in the U.S. alone (a stat that doesn't include the millions of animals used for biomedical, pharmaceutical, and military research).
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The history of how medical students have been taught gynecology is shady—as recently as the 1990s, anesthetized women undergoing operations were routinely used as guinea pigs for students to practice vaginal exams, without their knowledge or consent.
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There are rabbits with silken pelts and guinea pigs with curly hair, a flock of chickens, crops of eggplant, corn, apples and even a banana tree — all thriving in one of the grittiest neighborhoods in New York City.
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Frustration has more recently reached a boiling point, with one mother comparing her children to "guinea pigs" in conversation with BI. The term echoes conversations that we've also had with a handful of AltSchool families in recent months.
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To test the health impact of various additives, he recruited young men to serve as guinea pigs in "hygienic table trials," serving them questionable ingredients during meals in the basement of U.S.D.A. headquarters — and then observing what happened.
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Jenner himself may have caused the death by blood poisoning of one of his young guinea pigs; the "Inquiry" glossed over the inconvenient fact that the boy was carried off by a "contagious fever" shortly after being vaccinated.
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The CDC said in Tuesday's announcement that this outbreak is a reminder that pet rodents such as guinea pigs can carry Salmonella bacteria even when they look healthy and clean, regardless of where they are purchased or adopted.
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We did an experiment on all 900 students — they would call themselves guinea pigs, I refer to refer to them as pioneers — we closed the achievement gap and the satisfaction gap and it stayed closed for seven years.
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In the beginning of "Pandemonium," Eleanor, Michael (Ted Danson), and Tahani realize the Bad Place choose Chidi's ex-girlfriend Simone Garnett (Killing Eve BFF Kirby Howell-Baptiste) to be a part of the new class of afterlife guinea pigs.
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As fans of popular culture and welcome guinea pigs for new technology, we thought we'd play around with the latest product to crawl from Microsoft's room full of money to test how effective it is at doing its job.
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"I know these rules apply across the global game but this is the women's World Cup... it is no place for experiments, or to treat women as guinea pigs," Hayes wrote in a column here for The Times newspaper.
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"Kanders is a multi-millionaire who gets rich off of treating Black and brown New Yorkers as guinea pigs for all forms of state violence," said speakers on behalf of Sunset Park Liberated Future and the Brooklyn Defense Committee.
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And in this case, so much will depend on the savviness of those woeful billionaires who had it so good, and now will be guinea pigs thrust into a maze that has overwhelmed so many test subjects before them.
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The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, accuses Jerry Rea of using patients at Glenwood Resource Center as "the subjects or 'guinea pigs' in research experiments," the Kansas City Star reported.
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He also had a message of urgent caution for so-called biohackers, people who have decided the formal drug research and approval process is too cumbersome and who are using themselves as guinea pigs for increasingly more ambitious biology experiments.
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The British pet photographer, who runs a studio in the U.K. called Warren Photographic, is delighting animals lovers worldwide with his "brother from another mother" pics showing matching bunnies, cats, dogs, guinea pigs, hamsters, squirrels and deer posing together in harmony.
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Mr Moffatt, who has received a medal from the queen for his work, came in for a barrage of threatening messages, some implying that the teacher, who is gay, has been using pupils as guinea pigs in an unwanted social experiment.
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In other words, this initiative may provide a mere glimpse of the promise of upward mobility, while pushing some of the city's most vulnerable to serve as guinea pigs in the latest scheme marrying Big Tech and the public sector.
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Given the current climate — where Silicon Valley companies are routinely criticized for how they seem to prioritize products and progress over customers — some saw the Duplex demo as another example of Silicon Valley hubris, effectively using service workers as guinea pigs.
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They're as easy to install as plugging them into an available outlet and according to the product page, they have no effect on humans or average-sized pets (though pet keepers of hamsters and guinea pigs may want to be wary).
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In the United Kingdom, 270% of households own pet dogs, 2000% own cats, 2150% indoor fish, 2000% rabbits, 593% guinea pigs, 259% reptiles, 2000% domestic fowl and 290% hamsters, according to 2017 data from the UK Pet Food Manufacturers Association.
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In "The Effect," boy (name of Tristan Frey, played by Carter Hudson) meets girl (Connie Hall, portrayed by Susannah Flood) at a medical research center in which they are guinea pigs in a four-week pharmaceutical trial for a new antidepressant.
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Naturalist art was actually Potter's first focus before she turned to renderings of anthropomorphic rabbits, mice, and guinea pigs, and a book by Emily Zach, recently published by Chronicle Books, features many examples of her careful and highly accurate pictures.
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A private bodyguard — dressed in a tall hat with a plume of feathers and a ceremonial sword — led a menagerie that included one white, yapping dog, two guinea pigs, an ibis, a falcon, several owls and a family of alligators.
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There are the cost-cutter schools, like the tiny Portfolio School, which opened last year in TriBeCa and uses technology to keep administrative costs down but emphasizes experiential learning, like having students design a home for the class's pet guinea pigs.
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It is very difficult to persuade large companies with interests in the much larger American market to violate the sanctions or to act as guinea pigs in a trans-Atlantic scuffle over legal mechanisms when there is no certain outcome.
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Few rodents star in such a highbrow setting, excepting a few headless, jointed guinea pigs in upscale restaurants in Cuzco, dormice goulash in Istria, and perhaps the on-the-loose Basil the rat from the 1970s British comedy series Fawlty Towers.
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"I think the people that create these shows are extremely smart, they know what they're doing, taking everything away from us and putting us in this—we were the guinea pigs," she says, echoing a common refrain from reality show contestants.
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The report says that several dead animals were found on the premises — which houses thousands of hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, chinchillas and more — along with dozens of animals in desperate need of veterinary treatment for aliments like hair loss and eye abnormalities.
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While we wait, The Verge spoke on the phone with Mark and Scott to talk about the Twins Study, whether they'd fly to Mars or the Moon next, and what it feels like to be guinea pigs for the sake of space.
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The elderly and kids are really the guinea pigs for voice computing and personified AI. Elderly people have the issue often of being alone a lot, so they are the ones that might be more likely to turn to chitchat with Alexa.
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And when the day comes when they don't share a house (or even the same ZIP code — gasp!), hopefully they'll still find ways to support and inspire one another — or, at least use each other as guinea pigs for their makeup lines.
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For each workshop, SoulPaws rotates between using therapy dogs, miniature horses or other small animals, such as rabbits, guinea pigs and rats, all provided by the Association for Human-Animal Bond Studies, Hooves and Paws therapy animals and the San Diego Humane Society.
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Not only is this a drastic change for Kentucky Medicaid beneficiaries, but the state has 180 days to submit an evaluation of its efficacy to CMS, marking the most vulnerable people in the state as guinea pigs in a potentially life-threatening experiment.
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As a newly graduated physician, I believed research was essentially treating patients like guinea pigs, yet soon I was confronted with an awful truth pregnant women get sick, and sick women get pregnant, and treatment advances will not be made without research.
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All that needs to be known is that everything about this soundtrack, forced into a movie, felt like it was done at gunpoint, with two singers as its guinea pigs—it kind of felt that way in 2002, and it really does in 2017.
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Kuhl and his colleague Hongmi Lee recently published a paper in The Journal of Neuroscience with a conclusion straight out of science fiction: Using an MRI, some machine learning software, and a few hapless human guinea pigs, Kuhl and Lee created images directly from memories.
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At the United Nations on Thursday, the Russian ambassador, Vasily A. Nebenzya, called an emergency session of the Security Council where he accused the British authorities of everything from planting false stories in the media to neglecting Mr. Skripal's pet cats and guinea pigs.
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"She's going through a lot of life changes right now," Barnett teased, an apt segue into the rest of the interview, in which the couple talks about their experience as guinea pigs in the blind-love experiment that has now become a pop-culture phenomenon.
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One of the banks reportedly approached was JP Morgan Chase, a friend of the Bezos show that recently announced a joint effort (along with Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway) to build a healthcare company with Amazon, which the companies' own employees would be serve as guinea pigs for.
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If weed were legalized and properly regulated, they wouldn't be forced to act as human guinea pigs, exposed to substances that might leave them severely disabled or even dead due to a vain attempt at keeping people from using a drug that is neither toxic nor fatal.
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Wheels A hospital conference room is an unlikely place to assess a budding transportation revolution, but a team of San Francisco trauma specialists and researchers who gathered there sees its work as essential to ensuring the safety of residents in a city of high-tech guinea pigs.
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The safest place for small pets like guinea pigs and rabbits is their hutchIt might be tempting to decorate your small pet&aposs cage with tinsel, but May said this is a bad idea because they might pull it through through the cars and nibble on it.
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What Lavoisier didn't realize—and never had time to find out; he was put to the guillotine during the Revolution—was that measuring the heat emitted by his guinea pigs was a way to estimate the amount of energy they had extracted from the food they were digesting.
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What Lavoisier didn't realise—and never had time to find out; he was put to the guillotine during the Revolution—was that measuring the heat emitted by his guinea pigs was a way to estimate the amount of energy they had extracted from the food they were digesting.
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In a column for The Sunday Times, a London-based newspaper, the former Manchester United star Wayne Rooney criticized the soccer authorities for treating players like "guinea pigs" and for not sharing information about why they were being asked to play on while other European leagues had been suspended.
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To find out, ideas42, a nonprofit that uses behavioral science to understand and design solutions to thorny social problems -- including a current project on work-life conflict that the Better Life Lab is a partner on -- decided to run an experiment over the winter holiday, using themselves as guinea pigs.
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It was basically me bringing my Muse to any office where a friend had declared interest and convincing their co-workers to give it a try, trying to scrape together a round of 32 victims guinea pigs brave players whom I would then match up against each other by drawing lots.
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Zambian leaders also followed the EU lead in the spurious claim that GMO corn would cause allergic reactions, a more likely outcome from conventional plant breeding practices allowed by the EU. They also claimed that Zambian citizens were being used as guinea pigs although this corn was routinely eaten by Americans.
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During the investigation, police said they found four dogs, two cats, nine guinea pigs (and one more that was deceased in a cage), 12 rabbits, four hamsters, 10 sugar gliders, 14 birds, one gecko, one tortoise, one hedgehog, seven bearded dragons, one leopard gecko, 95 mice, 60 adult rats and 23 baby rats.
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In the 1960s, scientists put 12 guinea pigs in a centrifuge, and spun the machine at 400 Gs. (For reference, that's 44 times the force of acceleration experienced by fighter pilots.) They dissected six of the rodents immediately, and found that almost all of the otoconia had left the saccule and utricle.
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They are Ally, Anita, Steady and Sneakers (horses); Anna, Maybelle, Pugsley, Christopher, Wilbur and Arthur (pigs); Lil' Dipper, Scout, Barkly, and Smudge (dogs); Romy, Nate, Bob, Barry and Eliza (sheep); Dana, Hope, Harper, Avery and Levi (goats); Snowy, Blackberry, and Panda Bun (rabbits); Pipsqueak and Spud (Guinea pigs), Jolene (parrot) and Brian Williams and Jimmy Superfly Snooka (fish).
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Hundreds of diplomats around the world have been expelled, Britain has moved to crack down on the financial dealings of Russians in the country, and President Vladimir V. Putin's government has offered a variety of alternative explanations for what happened and complained that the Skripals' pets — two guinea pigs and a cat — were killed by the British and then cremated to destroy evidence.
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Three former students told East Idaho News that they recalled Crosland feeding guinea pigs to "snakes and turtles during classroom demonstrations" (again, it's not totally clear whether they were alive or dead), while Gee added that he hoped everyone would be able to keep in mind Crosland's years of service:"He is a cool teacher who really brought science to life," a former student says.
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Caked to the floor of my local grocery store with muddy boot prints was a flyer depicting the reality of what so many of us reduce in our minds to "oh, it's just lathering an animal up with shampoo" – rabbits with giant gashes in their heads, restrained rats ingesting lethal formulas through feeding tubes, guinea pigs with blinding scars from repeated eye irritation tests.
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We smoked pot on school property, stole yeast from the school bakery so we could clog up the pipes by pouring it into the toilets until shit started to bubble up, released a whole bunch of guinea pigs into the building, shot butter up at the ceiling, and whenever we had to practice flambé in class, we'd opened bottles of alcohol long before it was our turn to singe.
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And on top of that, venture funding-seeking startups here have long used the streets of San Francisco as an experimental playground, with the city&aposs occupants as their guinea pigs for testing out what could be promising technology — so much so that it&aposs grown into a bit of an issue, with the city considering launching an office specifically designed to regulate emerging tech before companies can throw it into public spaces.
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There were severe diphtheria epidemics in the second half of the 19th century, with high mortality rates, but no one knew what actually was causing the infection until 1883, when the bacterium was identified by Edwin Klebs, a pathologist working in Switzerland; one year later, Friedrich Loeffler, a German bacteriologist, was able to grow what became known as the Klebs-Loeffler bacterium in culture, and then to confirm that it caused diphtheria by injecting it into guinea pigs, rabbits, horses and dogs.
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