One of the earliest compelling studies to suggest a relationship between diabetes and air pollution was
an animal experiment published in 2009 in Circulation from researchers at Ohio State University and other institutions.
Not exact matches
In July 2010, figures
published by the Home Office showed that
experiments on
animals in the UK had fallen by 1 % to just over 3.6 million, with a 10 % decrease in the number of toxicology tests carried out on
animals.
In a report
published earlier this month, the French committee says: «Contrary to all recognised rules for medical research, the first trials on humans were done even though
experiments on
animals were still extremely limited.»
The latest research,
published in the academic journal
Animal Cognition, involved 12 bearded dragons which had not previously been involved in cognition
experiments.
Results of their proof - of - concept
experiments in monkeys,
published Aug. 25 in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, show a tenfold better delivery of the drug to the brain compared with the rest of
animals» bodies.
In
experiments described in a paper
published online today in Cell, the researchers gave mice a molecule that blocks the insulin receptor on cells, tricking the
animals» bodies into reacting as if they needed more insulin and producing more β cells.
ARRIVE (
Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo
Experiments) guidelines are intended to improve the reporting of research using
animals — maximising information
published and minimising unnecessary studies.
Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo
Experiments Guidelines
published by the UK National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of
Animals in Research.
Last month, Science
published an article entitled «A trans - Atlantic transparency gap on
animal experiments» (online version: To woo public, Europe opens up on
animal experiments, but U.S. less transparent»).
After years of
experimenting with FMD in
animal models and showing its benefits on metabolism and life span, Dr. Longo's team analyzed the effects in a human clinical trial that was
published earlier this year.
Don't take the words «research» and «study» without a grain of salt: It's often hard to draw «news you can use» from certain
experiments — for example, those that aren't peer - reviewed or
published in a credible journal, those that are performed on
animals, or those that are purely observational — which means that other factors could be involved in the outcome.
In a study
published in the journal Psychopharmacology in 2005, for instance, an
experiment involving sleep - disturbed rats demonstrated that treatment with kava helped shorten the time it took for
animals to fall asleep.
More than 6,000 papers have been
published on these so - called beta glucans, but almost all the data about preventing infections had come from petri dish or lab
animal studies, until a few years ago when a series of
experiments on athletes showed beneficial effects — but that was in marathon runners.
Borgi said a yet - to - be
published follow - up
experiment, in which both children and adults judged the cuteness of
animal and human pictures with manipulated facial traits (more or less infantile), similarly found «no effects of having dogs at home but a statistically significant effect of cat ownership.»
Jason Goldman
published a great writeup on Thoughtful
Animal about Tronick's 1975
experiment, the impact it had in understanding child development, and how it's being used, including to predict child behavior: