No one relishes using animals for experimentation, but the medical community has long insisted that such research helps develop potentially life-saving drugs and treatments. Is this justification compelling enough to continue using animals for medical research?
TheChronicleHerald.ca - 18 Hours Ago
The council and SPCA both oversee animal testing, but amendments to the legislation would remove the SPCA. But Mr. Kelly said there needs to be oversight by ...
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United Press International - November 17, 2008
... human carcinogens also cause cancer in animals, researchers said, and about one-third of the known human carcinogens were uncovered in animal testing. ...
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Nature.com (subscription) - November 12, 2008
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right). Please note this is News in Brief, and so will be a short article. ...
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TheDenverChannel.com - November 11, 2008
BACKGROUND: Animal testing is the practice of testing non-human subjects for scientific research purposes. For years, household products, ...
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Xinhua - November 11, 2008
11 (Xinhua) -- The European Commission on Tuesday launched a new web site to track the development of new alternative animal testing methods. ...
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guardian.co.uk - November 06, 2008
... a setback for the police investigation into a series of attacks aimed at preventing construction of a £20m animal testing research laboratory in Oxford. ...
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guardian.co.uk - November 06, 2008
Broughton was said to be the leading figure in the animal rights group Speak, which was set up in 2004 in protest at plans to build an animal testing ...
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Medical News Today (press release) - November 06, 2008
Cell culture can supplement and could, one day, replace much of the animal testing done to assess the safety and efficacy of medicines. ...
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Irish Times - November 05, 2008
THE ISSUE OF whether science should experiment on animals is in the news again. Many people, including many scientists, have mixed feelings about using ...
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Xinhua - November 05, 2008
Scientific research must focus on finding alternative methods to animal testing, but where alternatives are not available the situation of animals still ...
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The Press Association - November 05, 2008
"Scientific research must focus on finding alternative methods to animal testing, but where alternatives are not available the situation of animals still ...
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Financial Times - November 05, 2008
By Clive Cookson in London and Joshua Chaffin in Brussels The European Commission’s long-awaited plans to strengthen protection of animals in research ...
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Scoop.co.nz (press release) - November 04, 2008
New Zealand’s leading DNA animal testing service, Genomnz™, a service of AgResearch, is about to launch a DNA testing service for facial eczema (FE) that ...
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Vancouver Sun - November 03, 2008
If there were any other models that are as informative as in vivo testing, scientists would gladly switch to the new approach, because animal testing is ...
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Seattle Times - October 29, 2008
... against three former employees of an Everett animal-testing lab who allegedly sent a monkey through a cage washer, scalding the animal to death. ...
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Vancouver Sun - October 29, 2008
By Colin Blakemore Animal testing is still the best way of finding out what causes disease. Antibiotics, insulin, vaccines for polio and cervical cancer, ...
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guardian.co.uk - October 28, 2008
... a list of those people he had been targeting as part of a campaign known as Speak, to stop Oxford University building an animal testing laboratory. ...
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Scientific American - October 28, 2008
... scientists hope to find additional target genes for longevity studies that may not be obvious from blood screening and animal testing. ...
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PETA (press release) - October 28, 2008
Princeton, NJ -- PETA, which owns 80 shares of Princeton-based Covance, has submitted a shareholder resolution calling on the billion-dollar animal-testing ...
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guardian.co.uk - October 28, 2008
... said to be the leading figure of animal rights group Speak, set up in 2004 in protest at plans to build an animal-testing research laboratory at Oxford. ...
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