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How ‘Organs on a Chip’ Will Revolutionize Medicine
Until now scientists conducted most biomedical research through animal testing—which often doesn’t translate to humans—or in a petri dish, a static environment that doesn’t let cells ...
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Some Scientists Prefer Animal Studies—And It’s a Barrier for Those Aiming to Use More Effective, Nonanimal Approaches
The Coalition to Illuminate and Address Animal Methods Bias (COLAAB), co-founded and led by the Physicians Committee, ...
70% of Brits want ban on animal testing for medical research, poll reveals
Campaigners Herbie’s Law, named after a 14-year-old rescued beagle, say it would prompt a ‘decade of change’ and set an ...
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Experimenting on animals
The pharmacologist William D H Carey demonstrated the importance of animal testing in a letter to the British Medical Journal: We have 4 possible new drugs to cure HIV. Drug A killed all the rats ...
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Avoiding Animal Testing
The US National Academy of Sciences released a report in 2007 envisioning a future in which animals would largely disappear from toxicity testing programs. The report, drafted by a panel of experts, ...
Bird flu outbreak is ‘really challenging’ to stop, Michigan State University dean says
The Free Press interviewed Dr. Kimberly Dodd, the dean of the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine, about efforts to tame the ...
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Animal testing: What is it and why are people talking about it?
Animal testing is when living animals are used in scientific research to test their reactions to how effective a medicine is or how safe a product is for people. Testing on animals in the UK is ...