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European Union Screws Apes Used in Medical Research

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The EU's executive Commission last year proposed a range of measures to improve the welfare of the 12 million vertebrate animals used in experiments each year, mostly mice and rats. Nothing, nothing makes me angrier than animal researchers. Tags: europe animal research medical research.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

(You can buy some extra time by presoaking the animal in a basin of ice water.)" He writes, "The dog remained a vital tool in biomedical research for more than 300 years and was the vehicle for a remarkable run of medical breakthroughs.". By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.