I'm not against
experimenting on animals when there's a real chance to learn something.
Not exact matches
Discussion of
animals in a theological context,
when it does arise, has tended to be limited to moral questions: Can we
experiment on animals, and if so, for what purpose?
The first activist then jokes that he or she is «gonna run some medical
experiments on them» before the second adds: «We could use them as substitutes for
animals when testing.»
His opposition to
animal research began in 1995,
when, in the summer between high school and college, he worked in a hospital laboratory that was conducting heart studies
on pigs and witnessed
experiments he saw as cruel.
Subsequent
experiments showed that the reminder object worked better
when it was unusual or unique in its context (for instance, the only stuffed
animal on the desk).
A few years ago, however, neuroscientist Paul Frankland of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, noticed that some of the
animals in his
experiment actually did worse
on certain memory tasks
when their neuron birth rates had been ramped up.
In a series of
experiments in mice, the researchers developed a computer program that connected the neural activity in the
animals» brains to musical notes, so that
when one group of neurons switched
on, a corresponding musical note played.
Her plans hit a roadblock
when she realized that «I could never bring myself to
experiment on animals.»
Researchers at the Fund for the Replacement of
Animals in Medical
Experiments (FRAME) in Nottingham, have just finished the first stage of development, which draws
on research showing that human skin cells produce chemicals called cytokines
when exposed to chemicals that are irritants.
Experiments performed by coauthor Mireia Uribe - Herranz, PhD, a research associate in Facciabene's lab, demonstrate that
when ACT was performed
on genetically identical
animals obtained from different vendors (Jackson Laboratory or Harlan Laboratories), which carry different microbiota, impact of the therapy was not identical.
When extrapolated upon other
animals and other
experiments and observations
on animal magnetoreception, this might explain the non-replicability of many findings and high scatter in others.
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.
Every living thing
on the planet will naturally work to attain greater resources / mating opportunities, etc... In countless laboratory
experiments, using a variety of species, from mice to primates,
animals who were trained to work for rewards, continued to do so, even
when given free access to another food supply.
When Muybridge first began work
on his
Animal Locomotion series in 1884, he
experimented with photographs that depict one action, frozen in time, from multiple points of view.