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Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents

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Xander Balwit offers concrete proposals for raising the welfare of animals used in biomedical research for our final article in Issue 03. 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.

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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. In particular, article 13 describes the role of an EFSA conclusion in the renewal process.

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Everything Wrong with Mouse Studies (Kinda)

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The ALS Therapy Development Institute, located just ten minutes from my home in Cambridge, once tested more than 100 potential drugs to slow ALS progression in mice, all of which had been reported to be helpful in other studies. ” A recent article in The New Yorker suggests a solution to the problem. Free-range mice?

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