Sentences with phrase «of animal research»

It is extremely sensible and realistic and should be used as the blueprint for future government policy about the regulation of animal research and testing.

Several reports in the news over the past week have highlighted yet again the importance of animal research to medical advances.

Four workshops were dedicated to the establishment of general principles on how institutions and scientists should move forward to openness and transparent communication of animal research.

That process included review of animal research and visits to farms to review various outdoor systems.

In the case of animal research, there is not one unified goal, but many.

The medical benefits of animal research have been huge.

Six - in - ten men favor the use of animal research.

Government inspections of animal research in the UK should be reviewed, an independent advisory group said today, in a report which also adds to pressure on Imperial College London over its work in this area.

«It's clear this would negatively impact animal welfare,» says Kathleen Conlee, vice president of animal research issues at The Humane Society of the United States in Washington, D.C..

It's «amazing and historic news,» says Kathleen Conlee, vice president of animal research issues for The Humane Society of the United States in Washington, D.C., which has pushed to end invasive chimp research.

The Donald Trump administration appears to have reversed its decision to remove from public sight the results of past government inspections of animal research facilities.

In December, a row erupted when a 25 - year old veterinary student at the University of Bologna posted a defense of animal research on her Facebook page, which triggered a torrent of verbal abuse.

The team carried out part of their animal research work on zebrafish embryos in order to implement the principle of 3Rs (refine, reduce, replace) on their research on mice.

In reaction, many science organizations and a group of Nobel laureates spoke out in defense of animal research.

Vicky Robinson claims that common ground can be found between scientists and opponents of animal research throughthe three Rs: the...

In a new study published in Clinical Cancer Research, Minko and Rodriguez provide results of animal research in which the cancer is attacked at the genetic level by using small, inhibiting RNA molecules that directly target and decrease the excess CD44 protein in cancer cells while simultaneously treating patients with the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel.

* Update, 30 March, 11:07 a.m.: This article has been modified to reflect that 406 inspections of animal research facilities were conducted by APHIS in the first quarter of 2016.

This past Thursday marked the one - year anniversary of The Curious Case of Campbell's Rats, wherein we took a wild ride through over two decades of animal research in which Dr. T. Colin Campbell of China Study fame showed that dietary protein, whether it comes from animals or plants, protects against aflatoxin toxicity and the initiation of new precancerous lesions while simultaneously promoting the growth of precancerous lesions that have already formed.

The following websites provide best practice in different aspects of animal research website communication:

P. Michael Conn, co-author of The Animal Research War, warns about the plan to use the law to undermine — and eventually destroy — animal research in a column in The Scientist.

«Rethinking the Morality of Animal Research.»

Critics said the policy would simply result in the shifting of animal research work abroad, where research animal welfare is typically worse than in the UK.

«Given how rare this has become in Europe because of animal research restrictions, my feeling is that once we lose that, it'll be gone forever.»

What's more, the task of creating a database covering all forms of animal research, and usefully sharing it, is «well beyond our capacity,» he says.

Kreiter was informed in October that his application for an extension of his animal research license, due to expire on 30 November, had been rejected.

The analysis by Kearns and her colleagues of the industry's own documents, in contrast, suggests that the industry knew of animal research suggesting this link and halted funding to protect its commercial interests half a century ago.

An interesting new report of animal research published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that common antidepressant medications may impair a form of learning that is important clinically.

«This looks incredibly promising,» says William Swanson, director of animal research at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in Ohio.

Now Jentsch has founded a chapter of Pro-Test, a British group supportive of animal research.

The British «are conditional acceptors» of animal research who expect to see some medical or public advantage in return, he said; to avoid creating a backlash, researchers «need to be honest and not overstate the medical benefit of primate research.»

Among them: the increasing use of computer modeling and tissue cultures, the outsourcing of animal research to countries like China, and the higher costs and growing logistical challenges of using larger animals like nonhuman primates, which are subject to stricter government oversight than in the past.

Scientifically, I had many opportunities to interact with graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty in many diverse areas of animal research ranging from neuroscience, ecology, and evolution.

Journalists came along to hear the latest figures from two Home Office officials, along with responses from three leading experts who have a broad overview of animal research and gave their thoughts on the reasons behind any rise or fall in the statistics or issues raised in the report.

To identify the most efficient strategies to improve the understanding of animal research a variety of aspects were covered: the importance of developing strategies for openness in communication, establishment of transparency as well as possible challenges and risks connected to such efforts.

Up to 95 percent of animal research in the United States is conducted on rodents [source: Humane Society of America].

There are major problems with extrapolating the findings of animal research to humans.

The Morris Foundation is the world's largest funder of animal research.

Odyssey is partly a story of Morrison's role as defender of animal research and partly a thought - provoking self - examination of his own perception of the human - animal bond in all of its forms.

Tom D. Stodgehill of the Animal Research Foundation in Quinlan, Texas, was the first to register the bobtailed Catahoula.

Let's not forget the primate survivors of animal research.

He established the interdisciplinary Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium (HARC) at Tufts, whose work was instrumental in the listing of animal hoarding under the criteria for the new hoarding disorder in DSM - 5 (Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders).

This seems to have been the framework for the definition adopted by the Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium (with which Patronek and Frost were involved), which places greater emphasis on two key elements: denial, and accumulation and control:

The Humane Society of the United States, which has pushed to end invasive chimpanzee research, is «disappointed,» comments Kathleen Conley, vice president of animal research issues at the organization.