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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Dutch researchers carried out 592,665 experiments on animals last year, a 2.5% More than half the experiments were carried out for academic research and one third of those were for medical research. Tags: animal research Netherlands. From the DutchNews.nl.

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JULY 6, 2009

Animal research facilities will be required to disclosee more information online about their experiments under a court settlement signed Wednesday by the Humane Society of the United States and the Agriculture Department. Tags: animal experimentation animal research humane society USDA medical research.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

But how many animal research supporters (non-scientists) actually step into a room and observe an experiment? 68,315 people signed an online RSPCA petition stating "We, the undersigned, call on the British Government to work towards ending the use of animals in experiments, replacing them with humane alternatives.".

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JULY 5, 2010

One hundred and twenty beagles who faced lifetimes being used in medical research experiments have been freed — just in time for the Fourth of July weekend. From ohmidog! a site for dog lovers.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Bill Richardson is asking to tour a former medical research lab in southern New Mexico that houses more than 200 chimpanzees. The contract expires next year and Richardson opposes a plan by the agency to transfer the chimps from the Alamogordo Primate Facility, where they are no longer used for medical testing. From the AP.

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JULY 12, 2009

Tags: animal experimentation puerto rico animal research primates medical research.

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MARCH 7, 2009

I've decided to quit my book club, which I dearly love, because of a member who works in medical research and supports animal experimentation. And researching the company she works for makes me wonder whether the clinical trials she sells actually include animal experiments. And like I said, I love the other people in it.

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JUNE 9, 2009

Actually, I didn't quit neuroscience as a result of the experiences described, but I did quit working with animals. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. But that's neither here nor there -- I'm very supportive of animal research in principle. Bring on the PETA hotties!

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JULY 20, 2009

Once we are no longer so advanced, should we then be valued less and then subjected to experiments for this new and "unique" species of the future? Tags: animal experimentation animal research medical ethics medical research. Are there even more unique versions of humanity on their way? How about this?

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JULY 3, 2012

Once used as fertilizer, the crabs are now harvested as bait for common whelk and bled for an extract used in medical research. If you have had the joy of birding the Delaware Bay (remember, this includes Cape May in New Jersey and Prime Hook in Delaware), what has been your most memorable experience?

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JUNE 16, 2010

I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently. From what I recall, chimpanzees share at least 95 percent of human DNA, although the number that floats around the most is 98.6

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JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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JULY 7, 2009

New figures published by the NSW government's advisory body, the Animal Research Review Panel, show the number of animals killed in NSW experiments rose by more than 1,000 to 8,813 during 2006-2007. Tags: australia animal experimentation animal research medical research.

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