12 Articles match "Animal Research","Mice"

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• Two Examples of Mice Experiments - Valid or Not?
  
  I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. They used different lighting situations to see how they affect mice moods. Aren't there better things to research? Plus, are mice comparable to kids (although I would prefer mice subjects to primates who are so much more sensitive)?
  Critter News - Saturday, October 24, 2009
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• Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money
  
  President Obama promised to eliminate wasteful government spending; funding for animal research is one area that is overdue for reform. Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. Tags: animal research Obama Gundl Bhutani Sarasota.
  Critter News - Sunday, March 14, 2010
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• Canadian Council Says Mouse Pain Study Was Ethical
  
  I understand that, per the researcher's words, you have to create pain to study pain, but was this study really necessary? The research in question took place over many years and involved inducing various degrees of pain in mice using methods such as dipping their tails in hot water or injecting them with mustard oil or vinegar.
  Critter News - Monday, July 26, 2010
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• Growing Number of Scientists Question Animal Research
  
  The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. But many researchers - although adamant that animal research remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures.
  Critter News - Saturday, April 4, 2009
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• Charles River Laboratories Closes a Facility
  
  which provides mice and other animals for scientific research, is suspending operations at its facility in Shrewsbury indefinitely and laying off 300 people, the Boston Business Journal reports. Tags: Charles River Laboratories animal research Good riddance as far as I'm concerned.
  Critter News - Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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• A Trip to an Animal Lab
  
  In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.). Well, kind of. It was a rather grim place.
  Critter News - Thursday, November 5, 2009
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• European Union Screws Apes Used in Medical Research
  
  Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers.
  Critter News - Thursday, June 4, 2009
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• PETA Busts University of Utah Research Lab
  
  An undercover PETA investigator shot hours of footage of alleged mistreatment of animals. vice president for research. It's a remarkably banal list of ordinary events in an animal-care facility." Failed to ensure that experiments minimized discomfort, distress and pain to the animals. Certainly a case to follow.
  Critter News - Thursday, November 12, 2009
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• University of Utah Cited by Dept. of Agriculture
  
  They received citations for animal welfare infractions, although apparently few of these infractions overlap with PETA claims from an undercover investigation. Tags: animal research utah university of utah undercover investigation PETA You decide. From the Deseret News.
  Critter News - Friday, April 23, 2010
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• Appeal Denied for Six Activists Convicted Under AEPA
  
  Six members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty were convicted at a 2006 trial in New Jersey of conspiracy to violate the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act. The law, since revised, aimed to protect animal research laboratories from illegal, sometimes violent protests. It was a 2-1 decision by the US Court of Appeals.
  Critter News - Saturday, October 17, 2009
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