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Indistinct figures pad through the windowless corridors of Northwestern University’s animal facilities in Chicago. Only their eyes peer out from the layers of surgical masks, gloves, shoe covers, head covers and long, wide laboratory coats as the scientists here care for the animals they use for research.
Government funded facilities, such as Northwestern, [...]
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Animal ethics advisors say 246,667 animals were “manipulated” in experiments and other research, and teaching last year.
This was 22.6 per cent fewer than in 2006, but the National Ethics Advisory Committee (NAEAC) said today figures over a three-year period show this is only a blip in cycle of reports on animal use.
“A rolling average shows [...]
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A ruling that the Government was failing in its legal duty to ensure the suffering of animals used in laboratory experiments was kept to a minimum has been overturned.
Three judges at the Court of Appeal said a High Court judge’s finding that a Government adviser was “clearly wrong” in a conclusion over the level of [...]
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From March of next year the testing on animals of ingredients used in lipsticks, deodorants and other cosmetics will largely have become illegal through laws passed under the 1976 European Union, (EU) Cosmetics Directive 76/768/EEC [.pdf]. Since 1986 animal rights groups have observed a week-long annual protest against the use of animals in laboratories. [...]
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From the dawn of medical history, mice have always been a tool, used for the development of medical treatments and understanding of human anatomy. In medical history, mice models have greatly helped medical scientists to study mainly, structure and diseases related to heart, kidney and genes.
Scientists at John Hopkins University in Baltimore have another [...]
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Ever since Galileo argued that the sun was the center of the solar system, the idea of Earth as the universal hub has been the classic example of scientific arrogance. It’s certainly a foolproof example of the way humans consider themselves the rule by which everything else should be measured, but when we use it, [...]
Cocaine addicts often suffer a downward emotional spiral that is a key to their craving and chronic relapse. While researchers have developed animal models of the reward of cocaine, they have not been able to model this emotional impact, until now.
Regina Carelli and colleagues report experiments with rats in which they have mimicked the negative [...]
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The use of animals in research and testing is a controversial issue that arouses strong feelings in many people. The moral acceptability of using animals in experiments - whether in medical or veterinary research, to test the safety of chemicals such as pesticides, or simply to acquire scientific knowledge - is therefore heavily debated.
It [...]
US regulators have announced plans to reduce the number of animals used to test the safety of everyday chemicals.
Instead of using animals such as rats and mice, scientists will screen suspected toxic chemicals in everything from pesticides to household cleaners using cell cultures and computer models.
According to the Home Office, more than 3.1m experiments in [...]
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The Humane Society of the United State (HSUS) has come out swinging in its opposition to an experiment conducted on 110 chimps at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The experiment was intended to show the effects of sodium on blood pressure. The Humane Society says the “use of chimpanzees for yet another [...]
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