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Animal
Experiments / Vivisection
Japan
Develops Technology to Make Human Blood Vessels from
Fish
Novosti, article — April 2007
The scientists devised a technology to
produce artificial blood vessels with collagen obtained
from salmon skin...
Report:
Animals in Labs Abused
Alexander cohn, The Harvard Crimson, article — February 2007
Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN)
cited 32 federal violations by Harvard in a nine-month
period. The violations included cases in which a “researcher
strangled a primate through negligence, monkeys are
deprived of water, rabbits and wallaby’s receive
improper anesthesia”...
Aping
Ethical Behavior
Desmond Morris, Guardian, feature — December 2006
The Weatherall committee reports today
that monkeys, but not great apes, should continue
to be used for experimentation in medical research.
Anyone who has worked with apes will know just how
close to us they are and will be pleased by the decision
to spare them the pain of experimental procedures.
But what about the monkeys?...
OSU,
OHSU Study of "Male-Oriented" Rams Gains High-Profile
Foe
Andy Dworkin, Oregon live, Article — November 2006
The research results include a 2002 finding that a part of the brain in ram-oriented
rams is different than in other rams. Researcher Charles Roselli is now leading
a follow-up study to explore those differences, partly by changing hormone levels
in pregnant sheep to see if that affects the eventual brain development and partner
preference of unborn rams...
Hog-wild
for Pig Organs
Jessica Fargen, Boston Herald, Feature — October
2006
Harvesting pig organs and transplanting them in humans may not be that far off,
says one doctor, whose Boston-area lab is genetically engineering swine, putting
their organs in baboons and waiting to see if it works well enough to try in
people...
Animal
Testing: Unnecessary Cruelty?
Brittany Oehlmann, Associated Content, Commentary — August 2006
Innocent animals are being tortured and
killed each day for the sake of making people more
beautiful. The main animal tests carried out for toiletries
and cosmetics include tests for substance irritants,
skin sensitivity, photosensitivity, and toxicity tests...
Micro
Chips Could Prove Animal Testing Alternative
Simon Pitman, Cosmetics Design, feature — May 2006
Referred to as a ‘human-on-a-chip',
the creation is said to mimic the physical body on
a miniature scale...
Military
Lab Tests on Live Animals Double in Five Years
Marie Woolf, The Independent, feature — May 2006
More than 21,000 animals, including monkeys,
ferrets and pigs, were subjected to experiments at
the secret biological and chemical research centre
at Porton Down last year...
Animals
on Animal Testing
Gerry McArder, poem — January 2006
In
animal speak, they're not very impressed...
Mice
are Key Tool in Quest for New Drugs
Matt Crenson, USA Today, feature — March 2006
As
many as 25 million mice are now used in experiments
each year. Where do they come from? From the mouse
industry, of course...
Weaponizing
the Shark and Other Pentagon Dreams
Tom Engelhard, TomDispatch.com, feature — March 2006
They
are planning to put neural implants into the brains
of sharks in hopes, one day, of "controlling
the animal's movements, and perhaps even decoding
what it is feeling"... By
remotely guiding the sharks' movements, they hope
to transform the animals into stealth spies, perhaps
capable of following vessels without being spotted.
Mice
on Soy
Jonathan Balcombe, PhD, Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine, feature — February
2006
The
mice in the Colorado study had to endure a harmful
genetic manipulation, barren cages (which, incidentally,
afford scant opportunities for exercise), and a host
of painful and stressful procedures: physical restraint,
abdominal injections, removal of ovaries or testicles,
surgical implantation of hormone pellets into the
neck, and killing...
While
the Debate Rages On, Lab Rats are Still Suffering
Julia Stephenson, The Independent Online, commentary — January
2006
The
tragic thing is that while we humans bicker and
pharmaceutical companies line their pockets,
in laboratories all over the world animals are
suffering unimaginably agonising deaths when
there are already far more effective testing
methods available...
Male
Mice Sing When Females Near
Cheryl Wittenaure, Lansing State Journal, feature — November
2005
"It
soon became ... apparent that these vocalizations
were not random twitterings but songs," said
researcher Timothy Holy. "There was a pattern
to them. They sounded a lot like bird songs"...
UCSF's
Lab Fiasco
San Francisco Bay Guardian, commentary — October
2005
Is
it acceptable to mangle and abuse animals if the
research leads to a cure for cancer? Is
there a difference between the suffering of a dime-a-dozen
lab rat and that of an intelligent monkey? Those
are valid policy questions, ones that ought to be discussed
openly. But in San Francisco, the opposite is happening...
Animal
Instincts
Tali Woodward and Brigid Gaffikin, San Francisco Bay Guardian, feature — September
2005
University
officials won't let outsiders tour the labs, won't
acknowledge where all the animal research facilities
are, and has administrators speak on behalf of individual
researchers...
Monkey
Business
Tali Woodward, San Francisco Bay Guardian, feature — September 2005
Lisberger's
work involves fairly invasive experiments on live
subjects, and since you can't exactly stick electronic
probes into the brains of human beings, Lisberger
uses rhesus monkeys, those red-faced staples of biomedical
research...
How
Much Animal Testing is Done?
BBC News, feature — August 2005
While
the number of normal animals used in experiments
continues to drop, since 1990 there has been
an increase in animals bred with genetic modifications
or defects, from around 200,000 to more than
one million...
Reachable
Star
Salom Shriver, poem — August 2005
Henry
went to hospital... / twas Bethesda Naval / and
took a picture of an ape / in
a restraining chair...
Why
There's Scant Hope for Progress in Animal Testing under
EPA Administrator Steve Johnson
Ingrid Newkrik, Huffington Post, commentary ‚ August 2005
Steve Johnson [newly appointed director
of the EPA] is the former director of a monkey Abu
Ghraib headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. You may remember
Hazleton, as it was called back then, now Covance,
the world’s largest supplier of and user of animals
in product tests...
Animal
Rights Activist and "Recovering Objectivist" Cries
Foul!
Gayle Dean, Men's News Daily, commentary — August
2005
When
animal-abusers are caught red-handed, there's not
much their apologists can do, except pretend that
the abuses are rare and abnormal...
Animal
Rights and Wrongs
Adam Nicolson, The Guardian, commentary — August 2005
The
campaign against the Newchurch guinea pig farm may
have shocked, but Nelson Mandela would understand
it...
Bioengineering
Mice Piece of Cake
Paul Elias, AP, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, feature — August
2005
He
spent 2 1/2 half years engineering
mice with muscles that lose connection to their nerve
cells. He’s done this by splicing into mice
a cancer gene, which creates a protein that "disassembles" the
connections...
UW
Bids on Site Sought by Animal-rights Group
Karen Rivedal, Wiscon State Journal, feature — August 2005
"There's
an awful lot of suffering going on inside," said
effort leader Rick Bogle, arguing that university
officials just want to shut down public debate about
animal research...
ALF
and the Boathouse
Lindy, UK Activist, poem — July 2005
There was a little boatHOUSE/ The
ALFers set alight...
Eternal
Treblinka Author Returns Columbia PhD in Protest
PR Web, feature — May
2005
On
Tuesday, May 17 at 11am — the day before the
251st Columbia Commencement — Dr. Charles Patterson
will return his doctoral degree to the Office of the
President in Low Library to protest the university’s
continuing abuse of animals...
Experiments
Were Botched, Leading to Agonising Deaths
News Scotsman, commentary — April
2005
Today's
report by Animal
Defenders International into experiments
at Inveresk
Research makes unpalatable and disturbing
reading. Exposing animals to unnecessary suffering
of any kind is to be deplored and it cannot be ignored
in the name of scientific research...
A
Mix of Mice and Men
Gregory M. Lamb, Christian Science
Monitor, feature — March
2005
Inevitably,
ethicists are led to debate several questions. Just what
makes humans unique? When would a chimera become too human?
And, if it did show human physical or behavioral traits,
why would that be wrong?...
A
Timeline of Animal Cloning
Radio Free Europe — February 2005
February 1997: Scotland's Roslin Institute
announces it has cloned a sheep from cells taken from
an adult ewe — August 2005: South Korean scientists
say they've cloned the first dog, an Afghan hound named
Snuppy.
Why
the FDA Requires Animal Testing
Ray Greek MD, essay — February
2005
Sometimes,
drugs are approved too quickly based on positive results
in animals. Then patients who are taking them fall ill
and may die as a result. So,
why does use of the animal model continue in drug development
and approval? The answer has three parts...
One
Says His Research Transforms Lives
Red Nova, feature — April 2005
The
operation — which is now estimated to have helped
some 30,000 Parkinson's sufferers around the globe — was
developed by Aziz and others through experiments
on monkeys. It had extraordinary and tragic beginnings...
Pet
Theft Thugs: They're Real. They're Nearby
Brenda Shoss, essay — March 2005
His
muddy ID tag recalled another place: A home defined
in sloppy kisses, tail-wagging reunions, and a worn
spot at the end of the couch. But a bullet to the head
erased that life... At the end of a six-day criminal
inquest involving the U.S. Department of Agriculture
and five other government agencies, authorities confiscated
125 ailing dogs and a lone cat...
The
Betrayal of Animal Protection — The Corruption
of the USDA
Michael Budkie, Stop Animal Exploitation Now! (SAEN),
investigation — 2005
The
thought which underlies this line of reasoning
assumes that the agency charged with enforcing
these new regulations actually has some interest
in living up to its mandate. However,
it has become quite clear that the USDA/APHIS is
more interested in serving its customers (labs,
dealers, exhibitors, etc.), than law enforcement...
Are
You a Man or a Mouse?
Jeremy Rifkin, The Guardian, feature
— March
2005
Scientists
injected human brain cells into mouse fetuses, creating
a strain of mice that were approximately 1% human.
Weissman is considering a follow-up that would produce
mice whose brains are 100% human...
Lab
Monkeys 'Scream With Fear' in Tests
Sandra Lavile, The Guardian, feature — February
2005
Secret
documents describing how some monkeys can scream
in misery, fear and anger during experiments were
produced in the high court yesterday as evidence
that the laws intended to protect laboratory animals
are being flouted...
Animal
Experients More Stressful than Previously Recognized
Jonathan Balcombe, Science Daily, feature
— January 2005
As
stress-response hormones flood the bloodstream, the
mouse exhibits a racing pulse and a spike in blood
pressure. These symptoms can persist for up to an
hour after each event. Immune response is also affected...
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