Program Term Archive
Animals in Laboratories
Opening Doors
Animals in LaboratoriesOpening Doors: Carole Noon and Her Dream to Save the Chimps begins with a journey. In 2001, 10 chimpanzees are being cajoled into traveling cages within a trailer truck, bound for...
SCBT Charged Again with Violating Animal Welfare Act
Press ReleaseNovember 10, 2014Animals in LaboratoriesThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) welcomes the action taken by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in filing a second complaint against one of the world’s largest research antibody suppliers,...
Maternal Deprivation Studies to Be Restarted
Animals in LaboratoriesIn a highly controversial decision, the animal care and use committee at the University of Wisconsin has approved an NIH-funded maternal deprivation study on newborn monkeys. This study echoes back...
NIH Funds No Longer Allowed for Research with Class B Dogs
Animals in LaboratoriesThe use of random source (Class B) dogs for National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored research is finally coming to an end. As of October 1, 2014, NIH will not allow...
USDA Slaps SCBT with Historic Second Complaint After Campaign by AWI
Animals in LaboratoriesOn November 4, 2014, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Administrator Kevin Shea filed a 10-page complaint alleging a plethora of willful violations of the...
Swimming in Circles
Animals in LaboratoriesDetermining the role of a drug or gene on our ability to learn is a truly difficult task. We all learn in slightly different ways. Add in disease states (such...
Twenty Thousand Mutant Mice
Animals in LaboratoriesA May 2014 editorial in the journal Nature described “a project that aims to mutate every gene in the mouse genome to improve our knowledge of mouse biology,” that “should help avoid...
Moran Bills Give Animals a Break from Greasepaint and Traveling Show Grind
Animals in Laboratories, Companion Animals, Equines, Farmed Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeRep. Jim Moran (D-VA) has introduced bills to remedy two different animal welfare problems. The first, HR 4148, the Humane Cosmetics Act, prohibits testing cosmetics on animals and also the...
Looking Past the Results
Animals in LaboratoriesIs there something about the blood of a young organism that can improve the health of an older one? Three recent publications from Harvard and Stanford suggest there is such...
Minnesota Makes History
Animals in LaboratoriesIn late May 2014, Minnesota made history by enacting a law that offers greater hope of adoption for dogs and cats in research. The bill was sponsored by the Beagle...