Opening the debate, she said that researchers shouldn't be "the guinea pigs of bureaucrats and red tape".
The scientists showed this biological battery was indeed able to be run the radio device and detect the inner-ear environment for about five hours without compromising the guinea pigs' ability to hear.
The men volunteered to be "guinea pigs" at the government research base Porton Down after being told scientists wanted to find a cure for the common cold.
One part of the program gives guinea pigs, a staple and traditional protein source in Peru, to families for breeding so they can feed themselves and sell them to earn income.
When the virus was injected into a region of the hearts of seven guinea pigs, five later had heartbeats which originated from their new pacemaker.
In reality, as I have suggested, we may often be guinea pigs for the designs of calculating forces, especially those which have mastered the manipulation of social media.
The sound comes from thousands of guinea pigs held in mesh cages.
Today, seeking kindness toward animals as well as conservation, Goodall is pressing for alternative testing methods now available and the halting of using chimpanzees as Guinea pigs, because, simply put, it inflicts unnecessary torture upon these intelligent, sentient beings.
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Cathy Rose, of the Chilterns Conservation Board, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that rabbits, guinea pigs and smaller birds could be next on the menu if the public keep feeding the predatory birds.
The consumers on free Gmail made excellent guinea pigs for tests, and their behavior told Google about how long people scanned items, say, or what they used in instant messaging.
The fact that Japanese consumers are willing guinea pigs for gadgets has allowed manufacturers to use their home market successfully as a test bed for products ranging from TVs and vcrs to digital cameras and video-game consoles.
Zeneca ordered a "wet" copy of a promising gene, in the form of a clone -- a colony of bacterial cells whose members all carry the desired snippet of DNA. These bacterial guinea pigs can then be used to try out antibacterial chemicals.
"It runs the whole gamut, " he said, mentioning turtles, guinea pigs, snakes and more.
Porton was established during the First World War for chemical weapons research, and it relied heavily on volunteers from the armed forces to become what has been described as human guinea pigs.
' Furry little dassie (rock hyrax) scurry along the forest floor - incongruously, the animal's closest relatives are elephants, though they look more like overgrown guinea pigs.
Coincidentally, ReadWriteWeb published a post today about researchers reflecting on the ethics of using social media content in their research, turning unsuspecting Facebookers and Tweeps into guinea pigs.
Collaborating with colleagues in the U.S. in the mid-1990s, the Terlings Park researchers were the first to show that substance P might play a role in depression, when they noticed that guinea pigs cried out in alarm when compounds similar to substance P were injected into their brains.
The 900 students arriving in Boston this summer for their two-year course were told they would be guinea pigs.
The lab, which counts Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Merck among its clients, uses mice, rats and guinea pigs to test compounds before beginning human trials.
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