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PETA Exposé: Animals Suffer Slow, Painful Deaths in UMass Chan Laboratories

PETA found more than a dozen cases of animals suffering slow, terrifying deaths, including live mice thrown in the trash and too many animals crammed inside gas chambers, at UMass...

Another UMass Chan Animal Experimenter Caught Breaking the Rules

Jin Zhang, who cut the tongues out of mice after painful surgeries and pointless tests, had to go no-contact with animals for an entire year The post Another UMass Chan Animal Expe...

‘A mouse can’t tell us what works’: UK scientists to grow miniature human organs for drug testing

Organoids and tissues grown from human cells promise more accurate results, with £20m Cambridge project to create standardised modelsMiniature human organs and other tissues are to...

Experimenter Kicked Off Her Own Cruel Experiments at UMass Chan

Milena Bogunovic's negligence allowed a staff member to freeze mice who may have been alive, among other unauthorized euthanasia practices. The post Experimenter Kicked Off Her Own...

China’s lab monkey prices hit Covid-era highs on new drug R&D demand

A boom in China into new drug research and development is driving laboratory monkey prices back to pandemic-era highs, forcing some researchers to halt their studies. According to...

The long horizon of animal study preregistration: Attitudes, barriers, and myths

by Pasquale Pellegrini, Ulf Toelch Nearly half of Swiss animal researchers have never heard of preregistration. A survey published in PLOS Biology maps their attitudes, barriers,...

Mouse models and CRO selection critical to de-risking neurology drug development

CNS drug development lags far behind oncology, but translationally relevant mouse models can help close that gap and improve trial outcomes. The post Mouse models and CRO selection...

After Years of Cutting Into Monkeys’ Skulls, This Experimenter’s Program Has Collapsed

PETA’s actions, including meeting with law enforcement officials, brought down one monkey experimenter’s laboratory. The post After Years of Cutting Into Monkeys’ Skulls, This Expe...

Επιστήμονες καλλιεργούν μικροσκοπικά ανθρώπινα όργανα για δοκιμές φαρμάκων – Μειώνεται η χρήση ζώων

«Στόχος μας είναι να εντοπίζουμε την τοξικότητα νωρίτερα, ώστε τα επιβλαβή φάρμακα να μην φτάνουν καν στο στάδιο των δοκιμών σε ζώα», δήλωσε ο Γιουάν Τιάν, επικεφαλής τεχνολογίας τ...

Position statement on the use of animals in research

Updated: September 2020 Medical research charities are dedicated to improving patient lives and outcomes through high quality research to better understand and treat disease. To a...

'Second chance': Chimps used in hepatitis B experiments get health checks in Liberia