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What if the Trump administration is serious about ending lab animal use?

May 17, 2025 By Merritt Clifton

There are ways to cut back on lab animal use,  but just cutting science budgets is not one of them by Morgan V. Sage [Morgan V. Sage,  a longtime ANIMALS 24-7 reader and close observer of biomedical research,  offers the following commentary on the issues raised by our May 4,  2025 article “Is NIH under […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, USA Tagged With: Charles Russell, Elon Musk, Jay Bhattacharya, Merritt Clifton, NABR, ORIVA, Rex Burch

Marty Stephens, 68, chose footnotes over flamboyance in animal advocacy

February 26, 2024 By Merritt Clifton

Made anti-vivisection progress mostly quietly,  behind the scenes             Martin L. “Marty” Stephens,  68,  who died at home in Clarksville,  Maryland on February 17,  2024,  after an 11-year battle with cancer,  will be remembered as a footnote in animal advocacy history,  or perhaps more precisely,  as multiple footnotes in many reference works and research papers. […]

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