It is clear from this story that humans have a lot to learn about the way genes work together to affect behaviour in sentient beings. American scientists wanted to use Crispr (gene-editing) to try and make Syrian hamsters more friendly. They thought that if they …
Although denied by Neuralink, the company has been accused of cruelty to macaque monkeys in their experiments to develop technology which allows the mind to control computers. Towards this objective, they were testing technology which allowed the monkeys to play video games with their minds. …
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 the beetle which is normally found on the western coast of North America. They can’t fly but they can …
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 research centres are saying that there are not enough to go around and there is huge pressure on developing …
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 to banning the forced swim test. In this experiment, small animals such as mice and rats are made to …
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 to animal testing for Alzheimer’s disease in humans. They could be useful to explore the genetics that underpins human …
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 brains. Is this a slippery slope to more extreme experiments? Is this ethical? The brains of 11 rhesus monkeys …
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 testing on animals, in Holland it is on the increase and substantially so. NL Times reports that there was …
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 can be tested in an entirely artificial environment. This should, and I hope, must translate into less animal testing. …
