Richard J Miller

The Lab Mouse Paradox: Why Science Still Depends on Animals Who Don’t Represent Us In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face

The pointlessness of animal based biomedical research.

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Academics, activists, opposition call for end to monkey imports The long-tailed macaque is an endangered species and one of the most common for medical testing experiments.

No more monkey business!

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The lab mouse paradox: Why science still depends on animals who don’t represent us | Daily Guardian By Reynard Loki In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face owls, shotguns, and more poison. A...

The futility of animal based biomedical research.

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Alternatives to animal testing are the future — it’s time that journals, funders and scientists embrace them Biomedical research techniques that don’t involve the use of animals are gaining momentum, but those using innovative approaches still face resistance from some quarters.

Animal free research is the future!

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Common research monkey is endangered, conservation group confirms Listing could affect availability for biomedical studies

Lab research helps speed the extinction of endangered monkeys.

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Can Animals Feel? A New Roadmap for Consciousness - Neuroscience News A philosophy scholar has developed a practical “decision tree” to help scientists and ethicists evaluate which creatures may be conscious.

Maybe the question should be "Can scientists feel"?

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Magic Mushrooms Show Surprising Power to Ease Pain and Depression Penn Medicine researchers discovered that psilocybin can ease chronic pain and depression by subtly tuning serotonin activity in the brain.

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Why I Can No Longer "Justify" Animal Research Animals have been used as stand-ins for humans when conducting biomedical research since classical antiquity when this approach was pioneered by the likes of Aristotle and Galen. But, after thousands ...

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She’s leading NIH’s push to reduce the use of animals in biomedical research Nicole Kleinstreuer, who is leading an NIH effort to reduce the use of animals in research, began thinking about the issue as a toxicologist at the EPA

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Oregon “Real World” Study Confirms Psilocybin Effective for Depression, Anxiety A study of participants in Oregon's legal psilocybin program showed improvement in depression and anxiety and a boost in sense of well being.

Do psychedelics work in the "real world"?

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New approach methodologies gain momentum, providing human-relevant alternatives to animal models - Lab Animal Researchers are increasingly using organ-on-chips and organoids alongside or instead of animals to model drug safety, biological mechanisms and rare diseases.

Non animal research gains momentum!

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NIH establishes nation's first dedicated organoid development center to reduce reliance on animal modeling The Standardized Organoid Modeling Center aims to produce standardized protocols for organoid research, addressing reproducibility challenges.

Want NIH funding? Stop working on animals!

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White House slashes medical research on monkeys, sparking fierce debate Research on monkeys comes under attack as patients wait for cures.

Funding for animal research is going away!

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A call to action to address critical flaws and bias in laboratory animal experiments and preclinical research - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - A call to action to address critical flaws and bias in laboratory animal experiments and preclinical research

Cruel experiments are wasting animal lives!

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Shining a Light on Animal Use in Laboratories: Physicians Committee Hosts Congressional Briefing on the Federal Animal Research Accountability Act (H.R. 3295) How many animals are used in taxpayer-funded experiments every year? The truth is, no one knows. Estimates range from 10 million to 110 million, but the federal government doesn’t collect accurate num...

Animal research.Taxpayers ,do you know where your money is going?

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Time to close down research using monkeys!

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Penn accused of animal abuse, mistreatment during research in open letter to Jameson PETA demanded that the issues outlined in the letter be addressed publicly and without delay by Penn’s administrators.

Time to stop funding research at some universities!

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Beyond animal models: how organoids could transform drug development As regulators begin to push for a move away from animal testing, drug developers will need to assess alternatives. Patient-derived mini-organ platforms could help improve the predictive power of precl...

Beyond animal models: how organoids could transform drug development

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Ivy League Busted! Promises to Replace Animals in Laboratories Broken for Years | PETA In letters sent today to Ivy League schools Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale, PETA throws down the gauntlet on the

Scientists beware! More animal research will lead to less NIH funding in the future.

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Science without animal suffering: Celebrating leaders working toward more humane research and testing Last week at the World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Brazil, our Humane World for Animals team gathered with hundreds of scientists and policymakers to exchange insig...

Making advances in animal free research.

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Thymosin beta 4 as an Alzheimer disease intervention target identified using human brain organoids In this article, Luo and colleagues show that TMSB4X, which is downregulated in fAD organoid neurons and AD patients’ excitatory neurons, acts as a neuroprotective factor. Treatment with Tβ4, the prod...

Human brain organoids identify new drug target for Alzheimer's disease.

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Psychedelic Researchers Respond to FDA’s Push to Reduce Animal Testing - Psychedelic Alpha The FDA is pushing researchers to reduce their use of animal models and instead adopt ‘new approach methodologies’, like organoids and AI modelling. Here, Dr. Alaina Jaster speaks with psychedelic…

Can you really test psychedelics using mice? I don't think so.

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Malaria-on-a-chip human models are getting a lot of buzz!

New Study Suggests Cats Develop Dementia in a Similar Way to Humans — Here’s Why That Matters A new study from researchers at the University of Edinburgh shows that cats may develop dementia in a similar way to humans — which could potentially have a major impact on the way scientist study the...

Proposed experiments on cats are really demented!

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Cruel animal experiments are on the way out!

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Science drowning in bad data.

The tiny mouse lemur could make for a mighty model organism A cellular atlas for a small, fast-reproducing primate could set the stage for scientists to use it as a model organism that has more human relevance than rodents.

Science targets a new species to kill.

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The U.S. wants to phase out animal research. Are the alternatives ready? Drug and chemical safety can be assessed with AI and organ chips, but some scientists say it’s too soon to forgo animal methods entirely

Yes,we are ready to end animal based biomedical research!

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Cats electrocuted, drowned and starved cats in online torture groups, BBC finds A BBC investigation finds cats and kittens mutilated and tortured by online networks with UK links.

BBC finds electrocuted, drowned and starved cats in online torture groups
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Ask yourself-is this my university??

Mini hearts, lungs and livers made in lab now grow their own blood vessels These sophisticated models will be used for human-development studies and drug testing.

New technology allows blood vessels to grow in organoids.

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