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JANUARY 25, 2010

Last Monday (January 18, 2010), this country reached a milestone with regard to animal research when a booklet on the ‘Guidelines for Ethics Review of Research Proposals Involving Animals in Sri Lanka’, was launched at a simple ceremony held at the Colombo Medical Faculty presided over by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo, Prof.

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APRIL 4, 2010

Now animal shelters have the right to refuse to release animals to the University of Utah for animal research. Davis County Animal Shelter, a key supplier to the University of Utah, has already ceased this practice. Tags: animal research utah university of utah legislation PETA.

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JUNE 12, 2010

Similar legislation permitted the NIH itself to enter into deals with drug companies that would directly transfer NIH discoveries to industry. Tags: universities animal experimentation animal research. Until then, taxpayer-financed discoveries were in the public domain, available to any company that wanted to use them.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

After two years of heated debate on how to protect animal welfare without scuppering scientific research, the new limits, updating regulations from 1986, were adopted by the European Parliament despite objections from Green MEPs. And they must work at "reducing levels of pain inflicted on animals.".

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