This experiment which has been reported on the biorxiv.org website and which is yet to be peer-reviewed, is very exciting because on my estimation using… Read More »A drug that extended life by 7% in mice (infographic)
NEWS AND COMMENT: Dr. Mehmet Oz is a celebrity doctor. He is known in America as Dr. Oz. He wants to be a senator representing… Read More »Dr. Oz wants a seat on the U.S. Senate, but he’s been accused of animal cruelty
I’ll do the animal testing bit first which I find contradictory to their £100,000 donation to Cats Protection which will provide a million meals for… Read More »Nestlé Purina donate £100,000 to Cats Protection but they also animal test
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.… Read More »Gene-editing experiment on hamsters shocked the scientists
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… Read More »Elon Musk’s Neuralink accused of abusing monkeys in animal testing experiments
Elon Musk has a dream and as he is the world’s richest man being worth US$190 billion, he is likely to make his dream come… Read More »Fusing the human brain with artificial intelligence computers
NEWS AND COMMENT – CALIFORNIA, USA: This is a slightly bizarre and disturbing story about captive monkeys. It is reported by The Guardian newspaper that… Read More »80% of monkeys kept at a NASA facility had Parkinson’s disease
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… Read More »Beetle can withstand a force 39,000 times its body weight
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… Read More »Shortage of monkeys slows testing of coronavirus vaccine
NEWS AND OPINION: I can say with confidence and without any possibility of defamation that an animal testing laboratory in or near Hamburg, Germany called… Read More »Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT), an animal testing facility, treated animals cruelly
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… Read More »Pfizer – world’s 3rd largest pharmaceutical company – committed to banning the forced swim test
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… Read More »Should mouse lemurs replace mice in animal testing?
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… Read More »Chinese create a transgenic monkey
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… Read More »Dutch cat and dog animal testing increase
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… Read More »Organ-on-a-chip will reduce animal testing
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… Read More »Stopped! Cat cannibalism at USDA testing center
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… Read More »USDA purchased toxoplasmosis infected dead cats from the Asian cat meat markets
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… Read More »Cruel Agribusiness Animal Experiments Must Stop
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… Read More »China clones macaque monkey with ‘disorder’ for animal testing purposes