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Analysis Chemical Thank You EU court upholds ban on chlorpyrifos-methyl, setting regulatory precedent in the process

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In particular, they discussed the potential for genotoxicity, or the potential to damage human DNA, and developmental neurotoxicity, or the negative effect on the developing human nervous system. It also found this approach beneficial because it reduces the need for animal testing.

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Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents

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It may seem that if researchers are sufficiently concerned about the welfare of lab animals, the best thing to do would be to stop using animals altogether. However, a multitude of factors—from institutional inertia to a global animal-testing industry worth billions of dollars —make this outcome unlikely.

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How Lume Whole Body Deodorant Was Inspired by a Genetic Disease

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The earliest patent I found was issued in late 2009, for “Products and Methods for Reducing Malodor from the Pudendum.” ” But, tellingly, “Neither the law nor FDA regulations require specific tests to demonstrate the safety of individual products or ingredients.” ” Lady parts. .”

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Everything Wrong with Mouse Studies (Kinda)

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In 2009, a small group of Dutch biologists rounded up some lab mice, stabbed them with needles, and harvested their blood. Mice raised at five different animal facilities in Europe, under otherwise identical conditions , have “persistent differences in body weight” and behavior. Each animal had a different microbiome.

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