#animal experiments

[cosmicfandomvegan]

Tests on animals are cruel and unreliable, but chemicals are still being applied to the eyes of live rabbits 🐇

Alternatives like in vitro tests (human cell cultures) and computer simulations exist. All are cheaper, don't harm innocent animals, and are much more reliable.

Ban animal testing! Boycott products that have been tested on animals and opt for the alternative.

🎨 AlbaParisArt

[miss-biophys]

Preventing unnecessary repeated animal experiments

I applaud to this grant call from the Dutch healthcare research agency ZonMw. Wasting animals on experiments that are never going to be published because they are considered unpuplishable is just not right!

In science, we tend to publish only the positive results, the positive correlations, the drugs that work, the approaches that lead to results. All the paths taken wrong, the failed trials... they are lost in drawers. And then other researchers inevitably repeat the same mistakes.

This grant call want to prevent repeating the wrong paths and failed trials that involve lives of animals. And that's awesome.

[isthisahearmeout]

Is the Wire Monkey from Harlow's cloth mother, wire mother experiment a hear me out?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 16, 2025

[Clarification; yes = yea, that's a choice & no = that's rather tame/vanilla pick]

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[devoted1989]

65,000 non - human primates are used in laboratory experiments every year in the united states

Each year, more than 110 million animals - including mice, rats, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, fish and birds - are killed in U.S. laboratories for chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. In order for a drug to be approved in the United States, the FDA typically requires toxicity tests on one rodent species such as a mouse or rat and one nonrodent species such as a monkey or dog.

Around 65,000 non - human primates (NHP) are used every year in the United States, and around 7,000 across the European Union. No new biomedical research projects have been approved on chimpanzees in the US since 2015.

Macaques are now the most commonly used NHP - most are imported from China and Cambodia.

The huge demand for research monkeys and their rising costs have created a market for monkey smugglers.

While most macaques imported by the US are identified as captive-bred on paper, some experts believe that many of those in US labs have been trafficked from the wild as the illegal trade in wild-caught macaques is widespread. Sources state that prices vary from $5 000 - $20 000 per monkey.

NHPs are used because of their similarities to humans with respect to genetic makeup, anatomy, physiology, and behavior which make it possible to approximate the human condition.

NHPs are used in research into HIV, neurology, behavior, cognition, reproduction, Parkinson's disease, stroke, malaria, respiratory viruses, infectious disease, genetics, xenotransplantation, drug abuse, and also in vaccine and drug testing.

The NIH is the largest public source of funding for biomedical research in the United States.

Last year new U.S. law eliminated the requirement that drugs in development must undergo testing in animals before being given to participants in human trials. It allows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve new drugs without requiring animal data.

Signed in December, the law doesn't ban the testing of new drugs on animals outright. Instead it simply lifts the requirement that pharmaceutical companies use animals to test new drugs before human trials. Companies can still test drugs on animals if they choose to.

And pro-research groups are downplaying the law, saying it signals a slow turning of the tide. Jim Newman, communications director at Americans for Medical Progress, which advocates for animal research, argues non-animal technologies are still “in their infancy” and won’t be able to replace animal models for “many, many years.” The FDA still retains tremendous discretion to require animal tests, he says.

- National Institutes of Health ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), Science Direct, World Animal Protection, science.org, National Anti - Vivisection Society and HSUS.

Image with kind permission from The Ethic Whisper.

@theethicwhisper

[nagisingnapinoy]

What's so Wrong with Transgender Mice

The left narrative has been on overdrive painting Trump as not knowing any science, not knowing what transgenic mice are and what are their uses.

A genetically modified mouse, genetically engineered mouse model (GEMM)[1] or transgenic mouse is a mouse (Mus musculus) that has had its genome altered through the use of genetic engineering techniques. Genetically modified mice are commonly used for research or as animal models of human diseases and are also used for research on genes. Together with patient-derived xenografts (PDXs), GEMMs are the most common in vivo models in cancer research. Wikipaedia, NIH

Yes Trump is lying. Yes Trump is stupid.

But shouldn't a transgender mice experiment have been funded already right now?

[intelligentliving]

A Protein That Triggers Allergic Itching Has Been Identified

Itch-associated neurons in the skin are activated by a commonly expressed protein called periostin. North Carolina State University researchers found that if they blocked periostin receptors on these neurons, it reduced the itching response in mouse models of eczema and atopic dermatitis. The research was published in the journal Cell...

[jl1970]

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