The suffering of lab animals must be recorded individually, say government advisory groups
The number of animals used in UK labs for scientific experiments is now more than three million - a level not seen since 1991.
A new analysis claims the number of animals used worldwide in laboratory experiments is close to 115 million.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers are recommending longer, more sensitive testing on lab animals to determine whether industrial chemicals cause cancer.
... be possible to select a single preferred temperature for all mice."
To further test the ability of lab animals to control their environment, Garner and his research team conducted an experiment to ...
The number of animals used in UK labs for scientific experiments is now more 3.7 million - an increase of 14% on 2007.
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... previously published studies that measured the neural response patterns to smells in a variety of lab animals – from fruit flies to rats – and found that across all the species, the closer any two ...
Primatologist says scientists should actively encourage research that does not use live, sentient beings
BOSTON, May 28 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they've discovered a sugar molecule produced by a bacterium in a person's gut that can mitigate colitis symptoms in lab animals.
... displayed the usual behavior under the influence of cocaine. Forced to increase their agility, the lab animals covered significantly greater running distances and preferentially frequented those ...
... the journal Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation.
Anti-nogo has dramatically improved functions in lab animals that have experienced strokes. And an ongoing clinical trial in Europe and Canada is testing ...
... over the past year have boosted stem cell researchers in the lab and encouraged efforts to transfer test tube and lab animal advances to humans suffering degenerative diseases such as ...
... shown to reduce cancer and heart disease in lab animals. Rice's "BioBeer" will be entered in the International ... play a role in extending the life span of lab animals that are kept on low-calorie diets ...
... won't do so spontaneously after an injury, several groups of researchers have tried to stimulate them to grow in lab dishes and in lab animals by injecting cell growth factors or ...
