Pigs with Human Brains
Researchers are trying to grow human organs in pig embryos. But if the human stem cells start migrating around the embryo, the baby pig might start growing a human brain, too.
Mice with Human Brains
The Ancient Greek Chimaera had the body of a goat with a lion’s head and a dragon’s rear end. But why settle for mythology when you can make your own real-life chimera in the lab, and lots of money at the same time?
For Chimps, the End of Vivisection, Almost
For six years, Hercules and Leo have endured experiments like having electrodes inserted into their muscles so that researchers at Stony Brook University can study the…
Chimps Cooking … and Starving
How do you put together these three items in the latest news about chimpanzees? For the first time ever, a judge in the United States orders…
Of Mice and Men – and Women
If you were a mouse in a laboratory, who would you rather have experimenting on you: a man or a woman? Turns out that if it’s…
Are You an Extremist?
The nation’s largest coalition of vivisectionists has a new publication advising people who experiment on animals how best to combat the people it calls “animal rights…
Liberators or Terrorists?
When 100 people, mostly women from various rescue groups, rescued 178 beagles from a research lab in Brazil last week, nobody called them terrorists. The five…
Rabbits Who Glow in the Dark
Two baby rabbits glowing in the dark among their six littermates. What would you think, as a mother, if you gave birth and then discovered, that…
When Rats Have a Near-Death Experience
In the last few moments before he died, according to his sister, Steve Jobs looked around the room at the people who were with him, then…
Why More Animal Experiments Last Year
The vivisection industry – the experimenters, the animal breeders, the equipment makers, the funding agencies, etc. – has its spin doctors out this week. That’s because…
Chimpanzee Decisions a ‘Very, Very Important Milestone’
The decision by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to phase out medical research on chimpanzees and to send all but 50 of the 360 who…
Millennials Going Sour on Vivisection
A new Gallup Poll shows that medical testing on nonhuman animals is increasingly unpopular among the Millennial Generation. [readon] Each year in May, Gallup conducts a…
Household Product Testing – Useless?
Three months ago, we took note of a 10-year study finding that billions of dollars of research and billions of lives of mice have gone down…
A Day for Lab Animals
It’s World Day for Laboratory Animals – April 24th. The day was set up in the U.K. in 1979 to mark the birthday of the heroic Air…
U.S. Army Stops Medical Training on Goats
At Fort Bragg, N.C., soldiers kill about 300 goats a month in practice situations to learn how to deal with wounds caused by bombs and bullets.…
Four Reasons Why Cloning Extinct Animals Is Wrong
Last month, I wrote that the buzz about cloning extinct animals like the woolly mammoth isn’t really to do with conservation, as many of the people…
Vivisected Chimpanzees Greet the Sun
Check out the moment when a group of chimpanzees who have lived their lives at the New Iberia laboratory in Louisiana step out into the sun…
Europe Bans Cosmetics Tested on Animals
After years of obstruction from the vivisection industry and cosmetic companies, the European Union has finally enacted a complete ban on the sale of cosmetics developed…
After 22 Years in a Laboratory, Will Camillo Be Retired?
This is the most you’re going to see of Camillo the chimpanzee – at least for the moment. When the San Antonio Express-News asked the Texas…
Chimpanzees Check Out the Snow
A delightful video from the Gut Aiderbichl sanctuary for traumatized chimpanzees and other primates in Austria. We first met these guys, who came from laboratories where…