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Ban on animal importation puts U.K. research at risk
Responding to pressure from animal rights activists, ferry companies and airlines in the U.K. are banning the transportation of test animals bound for laboratories.
Animal rights groups in U.K. blockade supply routes for researchers
Animal rights activists in the U.K. have been gaining steady traction in their campaign to stop the transportation of mice, rats and rabbits into the country for R&D purposes.
Animal rights activists boiling mad at BMS
Animal rights activists are blasting Bristol-Myers Squibb ( $BMY ) after one of its monkeys at a company lab was accidentally killed when workers dipped its cage in near-boiling water. Staffers
Hunt for toxicity biomarkers helps replace animal testing of cosmetics
For the past two years, toxicology testing on animals has not been permitted in Europe's cosmetics industry. So that has accelerated a search for a way to determine, in vitro, whether repeated
Better modeling to reduce animal testing
Drug testing via computer modeling, virtual tissue, and human and animal cells are helping the pharma industry move away from the use of animals as primary test subjects. Researchers recruit tens of
FDA, Tox21 try IT in place of animal tests
Information technology is the lead dog pulling drug development away from animal testing. The Tox21 collaboration involves an under-construction database of 3,000 pharma and 7,000 environmental
Feds' new computer tox test saves research time, money
Everyone seriously engaged in the drug development business knows the odds against success with any experimental new drug. And they certainly can count the costs of lengthy animal safety studies,
