1. Decoding human genes is goal of new open-source encyclopedia
Plants & Animals
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Behavior
Biology
Biotechnology
Cell Biology
Cloning
Developmental Biology
Dogs
Dolphins
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2. New 'animal studies' courses look at culture, not biology - USATODAY.com
of the Religion and Animals Institute and former director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, says he thinks the real surge in law schools offering courses on Animals has happened
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3. National Anti-Vivisection Society:
are so critical.”
Animals do sometimes give the correct result and that many years ago, Animals and humans had things in common such that we could learn about human physiology and pathology from Animals. Compare this position with the
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4. National Anti-Vivisection Society:
treated the same diseases in animals and humans. Some medications that caused birth defects in animals could be given to humans. In light of these and other differences between humans and animals, they began to question how animal models could ever
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5. National Anti-Vivisection Society:
Institute
Last Chance for Animals
New England Anti-Vivisection Society
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Petsavers Foundation
Society and Animals Forum
United Animal Nations
World Wildlife Fund
Animal Advocacy
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6. Flipper Bands Harm Penguins - ScienceNOW
place antennas anywhere the animals might move.
In the late 1990s, Le Maho decided to try to settle the debate over banding. He and his colleagues chose a colony of king penguins on Possession Island, a 150-square-kilometer patch of land
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7. National Anti-Vivisection Society: Is the Use of Sentient Animals in Basic R...
not condone, using sentient animals in research that does not lead to cures and IF basic research is just that kind of research THEN society does not condone using sentient animals in basic research.
For more information see: Philosophy, Ethics
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8. National Anti-Vivisection Society:
has also done much for animals. Dogs need no longer die of distemper, rabies or parvo because vaccines are available. Chemotherapy can, in some cases, cure the cancers animals suffer from. Cats can receive medications to prolong their life
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9. Improving risk/benefit estimates in new drug trials
that eradicates disease in animals. Then, a few years later, the drug bombs in human trials. In the latest issue of the journal PLoS Medicine , ethics experts Jonathan Kimmelman, associate professor at McGill's Biomedical Ethics Unit and
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