Christian Potter

China Pushes Boundaries With Animal Testing to Win Global Biotech Race The research, including creating monkeys with schizophrenia and autism, would face layers of ethical reviews in the US and Europe.

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For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

Your reminder that many of the muscles, nerves and bones you use to hear and talk with correspond to gill structures in fish. 🧪 #evolution #paleontology

Death threats to NIH official spark debate over aggressive campaign to end animal research White Coat Waste Project files complaint over government employee’s emails claiming it incited harassment against Nicole Kleinstreuer

Death threats to federal scientists fueled by misinformation are becoming more common place.

We are going to pay dearly for allowing misinformation + fervor to run rampant.

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1. Here's a fish swimming upstream. Nothing unusual about that.

What's unusual is that this particular fish is *dead*. Vortices in the water as it flows past the fish cause the fish's body to flex, maintaining orientation and actually propelling it forward.

(D. N. Beal et al 2006 J. Fluid. Mech.)

There is no replacement (yet) for animal models in medical research The NIH is “reducing animal use in research.” But there is no replacement for animal models.

It is beyond disturbing when the NIH and HHS Directors do not understand that animal models are essential in research

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