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I really hate to say it, but until we develop a more reliable, accurate, animal-free way to model the effects of chemicals and procedures on living creatures, it would appear that animal testing remains our best bet as we strive for life-saving medical advances.
Now, before you decide to tar and feather and run [...]
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Scientists may for the first time be legally required to describe the level of suffering endured by animals in their laboratories under new proposals unveiled today.
Currently institutions have to say in advance whether planned procedures are likely to inflict “mild, moderate or substantial” suffering on animals.
However the degree of suffering animals actually experience is not [...]
One person was arrested during a protest against animal testing at laboratories in a Hampshire town.
Almost 100 campaigners from the Stop Wickham Animal Testing (Swat) group marched through the town on Saturday.
The protesters claim there are different ways to test medicines and other products.
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ANIMAL lovers need to be reassured that student training at The University of Queensland does not involve testing, research or experimentation.
Students perform surgery on animals that previously have been assessed by several agencies, including Brisbane City Council, the RSPCA or the animal welfare league, to be unsuitable for rehoming and are to be euthanised by [...]
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Inspections of Loyola University’s medical school run by the US Department of Agriculture revealed numerous violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, which resulted in the deaths of rabbits and dogs.
Stop Animal Exploitation NOW based in Milford, Ohio required the inspections, which were made from 2006 to 2007. The inspectors found poor veterinary care, [...]
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A new ‘artificial airway’ being developed in a test tube could make it possible to develop better therapies for asthma and allergy sufferers and could reduce the need for animal testing.
The development promises to benefit people with asthma, whose airways (breathing passages) are sensitive to pollen, dust, animal fur and viruses which cause them to [...]
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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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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 [...]
This is the team that has grown human skin from the leftovers of cosmetic operations. The resulting living epidermis, called Episkin, is used in tiny samples to test cosmetics, avoiding the need to use animals. This is significant because, from next year, the EU Cosmetics Directive will ban the use of animals in testing [...]
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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