Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

The NC3Rs brings together stakeholders in the 3Rs in academia, industry, government and animal welfare organisations to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, and the translation of research findings into practice that will benefit both animals and science.

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Critter News

JUNE 12, 2010

{The Bayh-Dole Act} enabled universities and small businesses to patent discoveries emanating from research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the major distributor of tax dollars for medical research, and then to grant exclusive licenses to drug companies.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

This information includes research topics, funding amounts, types of animals used, and the number of years the project has been funded. A valuable new resource has recently entered the information superhighway. Tags: animal experimentation animal research activism animal rights medical research.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

You could easily argue," he added, that the resources necessary to buy and train a new monkey would be a net minus for animal welfare. Wouldn't you at some point say: That's not right--we need to stop that immediately and put our money and energy into finding alternative ways of performing medical research.

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Critter News

JULY 25, 2009

It's a book about societal collapses resulting from poor decisions about the environment, resource-use, etc. Tags: animal experimentation medical ethics medical research science. This exchange was part of a larger group discussion about Collapse by Jared Diamond. I raised the point that science does not solve everything.

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