Animal Experimentation

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Animal Testing Facts
It is sad that the self proclaimed ‘superior’ in the animal kingdom should use products and medication at the expense of the death and abuse of lower species. It is important to stay updated on the facts about animal testing.

Animal-Human Hybrids No Longer a Myth
Controversy is erupting over the creation of chimeras—hybrid creatures that are part human, part animal. But the scientists who are conducting such experiments believe the benefits outweigh the ethical dilemma.

Stem Cell Therapy
Stem cells in general and several approaches to stem cell therapy are discussed. All therapies are both legal and simple. A new nutritional product, Stemplex, is also discussed. Read the full article to learn more.

RSPCA Outrage As Experiments on Animals Rise to 2.85m
The number of scientific experiments on animals rose by 63,000 last year to just over 2.85m, according to data released by the Home Office yesterday.

Racing Industry Rejects Accusations of 'horrific' Experiments on Horses
Horse Racing: The horse racing industry has been criticised for funding allegedly 'painful and often lethal' laboratory experiments on horses in a report from Animal Aid, an anti-cruelty campaigning group.

Early embryonic development in sheep and goats
1. Role of corpus luteum in initiating caruncle and cotyledon development. 2. Syncytia formation and blastocyst elongation. TO investigate Binucleate and hybrid nucleate cell formatioin in placeta. To gather information on signaling pathways and co-relate it with visual post-mortem samples. All studies on abattoir materials would be collaborated through in vivo-ultrasonic and electronic images to be posted latter, as work is in progress.

A Treatise Against Vivisection
Anti-animal experimentation letter sent to health charities that support this kind of abuse.

Don't Walk on Slugs and Snails
We should be revolted that animal experiments are necessary. No one who believes in democracy can possibly support the fire bombing of laboratories, physical assaults on research scientists and threats of violence against shareholders in biotechnology companies.

Covance Labs May Lose Licence Due To Cruelty
Following a shocking undercover investigation at Covance, Munster (Germany) by leading UK anti-vivisection campaigners, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV), the Ministry of Environment in Northrhine-Westfalia has started a procedure to withdraw Covance's licence to keep and experiment on laboratory animals.

Australian Zoo Animals Secretly Used For Experiments
According to an investigation by the Herald Sun newspaper in Australia, many animals, including rare and native species, are being experimented on in secret at Melbourne zoos.

UK Conducts Record Number Of Animal Experiments
Outraged animal welfare groups accused the British government of breaking its election pledge to end cruelty to animals, after newly published statistics this month revealed that animal experiments in the UK have reached a record high.

Sow At Pig Breeding Firm Bears 27 Piglets
Animal welfare experts in the UK are disturbed by the news that an "experimental" sow referred to as "P1818" gave birth last month to 27 piglets - the largest litter in history.

Reduced Animal Testing Called For in Report
The Animal Procedures Committee (APC) of the government of the United Kingdom has issued a report in which it states that some experimental drugs need not be tested on animals before being tested on human beings.

Software Replacing Animals in Drug Research
The Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), which is located in Lucknow, India, has begun using a computer program that will allow the organization to reduce the number of experiments it conducts on animals by approximately 90 percent.

Record Amount of Animal Testing Data Released
The largest amount of information about experimentation in laboratories in the United Kingdom involving animals that has ever been made public was recently released after a judge overturned an injunction against publication of the material.

Live Rats Driven By Remote Control
Scientists have turned living rats into remote-controlled, pleasure-driven robots which can be guided up ladders, through ruins and into minefields at the click of a laptop key.