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Soon-to-retire NIH chief Francis Collins went both ways on lab animals

October 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“We are not rats and we are not even other primates,”  Collins said,  but NIH is now using more of both WASHINGTON D.C.–– Francis S. Collins,  who both de-emphasized animal research and presided over expanded animal research during his 12 years as director of the National Institutes of Health [NIH],  on October 5,  2021 disclosed […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Science, USA Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Elias Zerhouni, Francis S. Collins, Justin Goodman, Katherine Roe, Larry Carbone, Merritt Clifton, National Institutes of Heath

Top GMO mouse lab closing; sponsor turns toward non-animal research

June 4, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

13-year-old, $38 million facility was British leader             HINXTON, U.K. —The Sanger Institute,  a global leader since 2006 in producing genetically modified mice for biomedical research use,  on May 16,  2019 announced to staff that it will close by 2022,  if not sooner. The impending closure is among the first […]

Filed Under: Alternatives, Cloning & xenografts, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Research & testing, Science Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Elias Zerhouni, Francis Collins, Holly Else, Justin Goodman, Katherine Roe, Mark M. Davis, Merritt Clifton, Mike Stratton, Mike Turner

Can Tox21 robot take the gamble on animals out of toxicity testing?

April 11, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Testing device uses cells instead of animals          WASHINGTON D.C.––Can a robot detect substance toxicity toward humans faster and more accurately than a traditional test on rats,  mice,  fish,  or other animals? The developers of the Tox21 robot,  whose name is short for “Toxicology in the 21st Century,” are betting that the robot can outperform traditional […]

Filed Under: Alternatives, Feature Home Middle Left, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Other species, Regulation, Research & testing, Science Tagged With: Anna Azvolinsky, Elias Zerhouni, Francis S. Collins, Henry Spira, Merritt Clifton, Ruili Huang, Tox21

U.S. labs now using more animals than ever, data review finds

May 1, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

NORFOLK, Virginia––Seven years after National Institutes of Health director Francis S. Collins and his predecessor Elias Zerhouni heralded a turn away from animal testing, U.S. laboratories are using more animals than ever before, especially mice and rats, say People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals investigators Justin Goodman, Alka Chandna, and Katherine Roe. Goodman, Chandna, and […]

Filed Under: Alternatives, Feature Home Middle Left, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Regulation, Research & testing, Science Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Elias Zerhouni, Francis S. Collins, Justin Goodman, Katherine Roe

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