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Harvard Medical School Facility Accused of Improper Research Reporting

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Again, work by SAEN (Stop Animal Exploitation Now.) An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. From the MetroWest Daily News.

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SRI Denies Access to the Humane Society

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A Menlo Park research facility Monday refused to allow a humane society representative to check up on a monkey that bit a female lab worker the day before. received a very minor injury to the finger, was treated onsite by emergency response personnel and then at a local medical facility," SRI said in a statement released Monday.

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Malaysian Firm to Establish New Animal Testing Facility

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But of course, the argument will be that the project is economic development, jobs and "for the good of humanity.". Tags: animal research pharmaceuticals primates medical research malaysia. Fortunately, there are Malaysian activists opposing it.

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Animal Researchers Promote Sob Stories

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I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I don't believe they are working for human welfare. I don't believe they want an honest dialogue about what they are doing to animals. I don't believe they are "brave" for "standing up" to animal rights activists.

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Two Examples of Mice Experiments - Valid or Not?

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I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. Plus, are mice comparable to kids (although I would prefer mice subjects to primates who are so much more sensitive)? However, it involved exposing rats to chemicals at levels that humans are usually not exposed to. One of the conclusions?

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A Trip to an Animal Lab

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In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.). but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

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I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. From what I recall, chimpanzees share at least 95 percent of human DNA, although the number that floats around the most is 98.6 If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"?

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