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Why COVID-19 is NOT the zoonotic illness most likely to kill you

March 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Panicked stress may be killing more people than the disease itself             SEATTLE,  ATLANTA,  HONG KONG––Amid escalating global panic over the worldwide rapid spread of the recently identified coronavirus COVID-19,  a person not familiar with ProMED–mail might expect the most panic-stricken person of all to be ProMED–mail deputy editor Marjorie P. Pollack,  M.D. ProMED-mail is […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Chimps & other primates, China, Disasters, Dogs & cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Lab animals, Science, Science, Wildlife Tagged With: Francis Collins, Jeremy Samuel Faust, Marjorie Pollack, Merritt Clifton, Monir Tahir, Pe Su, Shirley McGreal, Steve Berger

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

Mouse studies often don’t work,  NIH admits after landmark 10-year study

June 4, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

National Institutes of Health finding in 2013 presaged Wellcome Foundation decision to close the Sanger Institute genetically modified mouse lab by 2022 WASHINGTON D.C. (March 2013)–– Bluntly stated the headline in the February 11,  2013 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,  “Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases.” Echoing […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Science, USA Tagged With: Biao He, Charles Calisher, Francis Collins, Gad Simon, Harald Schlatter, Jack Woodall, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Nick Jukes, Sue Leary, Wayne Pacelle

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