Animal testing

Beetle can withstand a force 39,000 times its body weight

The oak-dwelling ironclad beetle is teaching humans how to build crush-proof products in commercial fields such as aeronautics and construction. They’ve been carrying out research on...

October 22, 2020 by MikeB Animal testing

Shortage of monkeys slows testing of coronavirus vaccine

In America there is a shortage of rhesus macaque monkeys for animal testing purposes. There was a shortage years before the coronavirus pandemic but now US...

September 2, 2020 by MikeB Animal testing 0

Pfizer – world’s 3rd largest pharmaceutical company – committed to banning the forced swim test

After less than a year of intense pressure from PETA and more than half a million activists like you, Pfizer – the world’s third-largest pharmaceutical company – has committed...

November 1, 2019 by MikeB Animal testing

Should mouse lemurs replace mice in animal testing?

Mouse lemurs are the smallest primates. They are abundant in the jungles of Madagascar. They can be bred fast. They could be very useful with respect...

July 3, 2019 by MikeB Animal testing

Chinese create a transgenic monkey

The Chinese have inserted human genes into the brains of monkeys in an attempt to create ‘transgenic monkeys’ with brains which mirror in certain ways human...

April 16, 2019 by MikeB Animal testing

Dutch cat and dog animal testing increase

Shockingly in an age when people are more aware of the cruelty of animal testing and when there are more opportunities through technological development to avoid...

April 10, 2019 by MikeB Animal testing

Organ-on-a-chip will reduce animal testing

I am very optimistic about this new method of testing drugs. It’s called organs-on-a-chip. The video below explains what it is. Essentially, it means that drugs...

April 4, 2019 by MikeB Animal testing

Stopped! Cat cannibalism at USDA testing center

This is quite a long-running story. It was exposed some months ago. At a USDA testing centre (the Agricultural Research Service – ARS) young cats were...

April 4, 2019 by MikeB Animal testing

USDA purchased toxoplasmosis infected dead cats from the Asian cat meat markets

The USDA purchased toxoplasmosis infected dead cats from the objectionable Asian cat meat markets in order to feed them to hundreds of young cats over many...

March 19, 2019 by MikeB Animal testing

80,000 people plead for dogs facing death in dental study

Six labradors about to be killed for animal testing

A dental study on six black labradors is in the process of taking place at Gothenburg University, Sweden. The dogs have to be killed in order...

February 16, 2019 by MikeB Animal testing

Cruel Agribusiness Animal Experiments Must Stop

To “improve carcass merit” means to boost livestock industry profits. It’s a euphemism for animal abuse, in truth. I’m referring to the taxpayer-funded USDA’s Meat Animal...

February 2, 2019 by MikeB Animal testing

China clones macaque monkey with ‘disorder’ for animal testing purposes

This is questionable behaviour in my opinion. Chinese scientists say they have cloned five baby monkeys from a genetically edited macaque monkey with a brain disorder....

January 25, 2019 by MikeB Animal testing