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UW to release names of animal committee members to PETA, raising research concerns
The University of Washington lost a 3-year-long legal battle to keep the names of its Institutional Animal Care and Use ...
Injuries, missing teeth and infection: PETA raises concerns from UMass monkey lab records
Records obtained by PETA from UMass document multiple incidents in which research monkeys were injured or showed ...
Study Finds4d
Sea Lion Debunks Theory That Rhythm Is Uniquely Human
A sea lion named Ronan matched or outperformed humans in a rhythm test, showing better consistency and synchronization to ...
Frontiers1d
Challenges of Animal Models for Human Neurological Diseases
The medical research on human subjects has to respect the ethical principles included in the Declaration of Helsinki and the additional constraints imposed ...
eLife3d
Repression of the Wnt pathway effector TCF7L2 reverses lethal cachexia in mice with intestinal cancers
In this valuable study, the authors demonstrate that TCF7L2 plays a role in the pathogenesis of cachexia in a mouse model of GI cancer. The results are solid, although future studies will need further ...
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Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) must approve any use of live vertebrate animals in research and teaching at Central Washington University. The IACUC has the broader goals of (1 ...