Mice Prove Useless in Testing Killer Diseases
A 10-year study has concluded that billions of dollars of research have gone down the drain in experiments on mice that proved completely useless when applied…
Boldly Going Where Monkeys Have Gone Before
The monkey launched by Iran this week, and Laika in 1957 I recall being in the music room at school having a piano lesson when…
Cloning Cats, Cows and Neanderthals
When Prof. Church and others offer, as a reason for cloning Neanderthals, that this may help save the human race from extinction, they simply betray their deeper anxieties about their own mortality.
What’s Next for the Government’s Chimpanzees?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has taken another big step toward bringing an end to the use of chimpanzees in research. But there’s still a long way to go – and it’s still quite uncertain where the retired chimpanzees can go and who’s going to pay for them.
All the Government’s Chimpanzees to Be Retired to Chimp Haven
In a change of plan from what was announced four months ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has decided to release all 110 of its “research-ineligible” chimpanzees to sanctuary care – most likely at Chimp Haven in Louisiana.
Who’s More Altruistic: Monkeys or Researchers?
Here’s a weird one: A group of researchers sets out to study empathy in monkeys. They want to understand altruism better. So they cook up a…
University "Can’t Stop" Experiments on Animals
Kudos to the University of British Columbia for at least being open with their animal experimentation figures. (They’re the only university in Canada that does this.)…
How Young People Are Drawn into Vivisection
The Michigan Daily reports on the “adjustment process” for a student at the U. of Michigan who is learning how to experiment on live animals. [readon]…
Vivisection, UCSF-Style
A rhesus monkey, named Petra, kept in a botched brain study with screws and a piece of acrylic waste buried in her head. Mice having their toes cut off without a drop of anesthesia. Others dying of thirst. Birds cut open without anesthesia. All of this, and much more, at the University of California at San Francisco, which experimented its way through 800,000 animals last year.
Sandy and the Laboratory Mice
One group of victims who could not escape the flooding of New York City this week were the more than 10,000 mice and rats in the…
Hundreds of Sick Chimpanzees Held in Labs Until They Die
Two thirds of the chimpanzees who died at vivisection laboratories over the past ten years were so sick from chronic illness or multi-organ diseases that they should, by law, have been retired from experimentation. Instead, they were simply held for further research.
That’s the conclusion of a new study from the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) to be published in October 2012 edition of the journal Alternatives to Laboratory Animals.
Toward the End of Research on Chimps
The National Institutes of Health has taken another step toward ending medical and scientific research on chimpanzees. All of the government’s 110 chimpanzees at the infamous New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana are being made “permanently ineligible” for research. But it’s only a small step. Just 10 of the chimps are being moved to a sanctuary – Chimp Haven. The other 100 are going to a research center in Texas. Why is that?
The Great Italian Beagle Rescue
It’s been one of the biggest dog rescues in history: 2,500 beagles who were destined for vivisection experiments are being rescued from the infamous Green Hill…
NIH Funds Major Alternative to Vivisection
The National Institutes of Health is funding a major new project to replace vivisection experiments with “organ chips” – silicon chips that can contain real human…
Brits Divided Over Experiment on Kittens
Is it OK to sew up the eyes of kittens, open up their brains, and then kill them? What about if it might lead scientists to…
Could Lonesome George Come Back?
Lonesome George, the centenarian Galapagos Island turtle was found dead one morning last weekend in his corral. He was the last of his kind. George was…
Chimp Lab Fights to Save Its Own Life
As the tide begins to turn in the battle to save the lives of chimpanzees in laboratories, the laboratory that conducts most of those experiments is…
Navy Medical Officer Opposes Practicing on Goats
A former navy medical officer has launched a petition to stop the U.S. Navy from using goats for medical students to practice their surgical skills. Dr.…
Woman Vivisected in London Store Window
They dragged her along with a rope around her neck and pushed her down on a bench. It was feeding time for Jacqueline Traide and you…
Top Ten Tax-Funded Bizarre Experiments
We’ve heard plenty of stories in the last few days of tax dollars funding lavish Las Vegas vacations for government agencies and prostitution scandals in the Secret Service. But these are all peanuts compared to the amount of your money being dished out for weird vivisection experiments.