• While agreeing with their premise, I would disagree with the conclusion and would argue that the authors fail to adequately describe how the One Health approach provides alternatives to traditional use of animal experimentation. (who.int)
  • The One Health paradigm, whether applied to zoonotic disease or other health issues affecting both animals and humans, can provide important alternatives to animal experimentation. (who.int)
  • equately describe how the One Health and cohort studies to assess correlation approach provides alternatives to tra- between environmental exposures and · Zoonoses are important threats to ditional use of animal experimentation. (who.int)
  • One Health supports a shared risk and humans, can provide important mane aspects of animal research as approach, wherein animals and humans alternatives to animal experimentation. (who.int)
  • Few people who live in countries where animal experiments occur know much detail about the numbers and species of animals used, the types of procedures they endure, or the pain and suffering involved ( Hadley, 2012 ), as well as the ineffectiveness of using animals as models for humans. (brill.com)
  • Human uses of animals (non-human species) include both practical uses, such as the production of food and clothing, and symbolic uses, such as in art, literature, mythology, and religion. (wikipedia.org)
  • The human population exploits a large number of non-human animal species for food, both of domesticated livestock species in animal husbandry and, mainly at sea, by hunting wild species. (wikipedia.org)
  • Marine fish of many species, such as herring, cod, tuna, mackerel and anchovy, are caught and killed commercially, and can form an important part of the human diet, including protein and fatty acids. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thus, while the numbers of some species reported in the Animal Welfare Assurances have risen, this may reflect the overall increase in research and not that a larger proportion of the funded research involves animals," she said. (cbsnews.com)
  • But some scholars say intelligent animal species deserve the kind of constitutional rights taken for granted by most Americans. (loe.org)
  • Animal rights laws that were passed fifty years ago no longer adhere to modern scientific research as it applies to the sentience of animal species and the treatment of animals with the rights that they are entitled to, much like man is legally entitled to rights and. (exampleessays.com)
  • A wide variety of species are used in animal testing. (caringconsumer.com)
  • Not all animal species are used equally in animal testing. (caringconsumer.com)
  • The remaining percentage of animal tests and clinical trials are split relatively evenly among the above animal species. (caringconsumer.com)
  • Putting human genes into plants would go beyond crossing the species barrier. (greens.org)
  • Putting human genes into plants would go beyond crossing the species barrier (plant to plant or animal to animal). (greens.org)
  • In other words, bioethics should examine the prejudices that are "based on species difference" and "species membership," and hence take up the central issue of "our obligations to nonhuman animals. (erudit.org)
  • Zoonoses are important threats to human and animal health, and animal research has played a role in assessing risk across species. (who.int)
  • As such, groups concerned with animal ethics would do well to further explore the applications of a One Health approach: what are the ethical guideposts as we move toward a future of health care that considers the health of multiple species as well as the environment? (who.int)
  • The American Veterinary Medical disease control and prevention is the research has played a role in assessing Association has defined One Health as use of animal collars and vaccinations risk across species. (who.int)
  • it entails preventing proach: what are the ethical guideposts cal approach which promotes better and treating disease in one species in as we move toward a future of health collaboration between human and order to indirectly prevent and treat care that considers the health of multi- animal health professionals in order disease in another species [3]. (who.int)
  • Given the multiple lines of evidence for speciation within human-infecting Cyclospora, we provide an updated taxonomic description of C. cayetanensis, and describe 2 novel species as aetiological agents of human cyclosporiasis: Cyclospora ashfordi sp. (cdc.gov)
  • Moreover, absent pharmacodynamic differences identifiable physiological entities but rather are abstract between animal species, it is expected that similar responses concepts with meaning only in terms of a particular calcu- will be produced at equivalent tissue exposures regardless lation. (cdc.gov)
  • Logically speaking, human genetic experimentation should be allowed. (cram.com)
  • No extraterrestrial power shall take, possess, or manipulate human biological or genetic material for any purpose whatsoever. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • Just as people are unlikely to agree on how much genetic material constitutes "humanness," they are likely to differ on the conditions under which it is moral or immoral to consume food with human components. (greens.org)
  • Eating food with human genetic components would certainly run counter to the moral or religious beliefs of more than a few people. (greens.org)
  • Genetic engineering (GE) researchers have been putting human genes into animals for years for medical purposes, such as trying to make pig hearts human-compatible. (greens.org)
  • This transplanted 50 times as much human genetic information as had previously been accomplished. (greens.org)
  • Family discussion: Who should make the rules about genetic experimentation? (moviemom.com)
  • According to an article by PETA, "experiments on animals are cruel, expensive and generally inapplicable to humans" (PETA 1). (123helpme.com)
  • The use of animals in experiments at leading federally-funded labs has increased nearly 73 percent in the past 15 years, according to a new study conducted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). (cbsnews.com)
  • PETA has long campaigned for a reduction in animals used experiments and there has been a shift way from using them for such things as chemical toxicity testing and medical education. (cbsnews.com)
  • Despite new research technology, evidence that animal experiments often don't faithfully translate to humans, and the fact that a growing majority of the public opposes experiments on animals, laboratories are abusing more animals than ever before," said PETA Director of Laboratory Investigations Justin Goodman, who was a co-author on the study. (cbsnews.com)
  • PETA also alleged that individuals on testing oversight committees are often involved in animal research themselves, which creates a potential conflict of interest. (cbsnews.com)
  • Acute toxicity, skin irritation, psychology research are a few tests that the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals or PETA listed. (exampleessays.com)
  • One of the most influential animal-rights groups is PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. (exampleessays.com)
  • PETA highlights that animal testing involves subjecting animals to painful experiments in a laboratory setting . (caringconsumer.com)
  • In another project, EPA and PETA scientists-as well as other experts-coauthored a publication showing that test methods that don't involve applying chemicals to the eyes of live rabbits in order to assess eye irritation were as, if not more, relevant to humans than animal tests and that their results were more consistent. (peta.org)
  • To help build a world in which toxicity tests better protect humans and the environment-and one in which modern methods, instead of millions of animals, are used to test chemicals-PETA scientists will continue collaborating with the EPA and other scientists on strategies to implement non-animal testing. (peta.org)
  • The "PETA-Approved Vegan" logo is a way of recognising these progressive compassionate businesses - and helping ethical consumers identify where to shop with confidence, safe in the knowledge that they're not supporting the exploitation of animals. (continentalclothing.com)
  • The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Foundation is a UK-based charity dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals. (continentalclothing.com)
  • PETA and our affiliates around the world educate policymakers and the public about cruelty to animals and promote an understanding of the right of all animals to be treated with respect. (continentalclothing.com)
  • and the Cruelty to Animals Act which was passed in 1876 (Franklin). (123helpme.com)
  • I Paige disagree with human experimentation and feel we need To stop the human cruelty. (cram.com)
  • but it is much more to do with cruelty to their fellow human beings. (webofstories.com)
  • The law currently protects animals from cruelty and abuse, but otherwise treats them as property. (loe.org)
  • MOTYLEWSKI: There are laws to protect animals from cruelty and abuse, but the rights Steven Wise speaks of are the inalienable kind, which can't be legislated away -- the ones most Americans take for granted -- life and liberty. (loe.org)
  • According to those numbers from the Cruelty Free International report about animal experimentation, the top ten countries amount to using 69.7 million animals for animal experiments every year. (caringconsumer.com)
  • As more and more people vow never to clothe themselves in cruelty, retailers and designers are meeting the demand for animal-friendly clothes in style. (continentalclothing.com)
  • I am on the affirmative side and I think that Human experimentation is important because scientists and doctors can find new and more effective treatments for diseases. (bartleby.com)
  • Doing tests on animals can help find ways to cure diseases, but testing on them is wrong. (123helpme.com)
  • Although we want to find cures for diseases to help many people, testing on animals not only brutally hurts them but it also denies the animals the rights they have. (123helpme.com)
  • Animal experimentation is helping the understanding of diseases and new surgical techniques on both human and animals. (cram.com)
  • The molecular study of fat cell development in the human body is essential for our understanding of obesity and related diseases. (mdpi.com)
  • The activities of the Actia Fastypers UMT are devoted to Listeria and Salmonella, two bacteria of animal origin responsible for diseases in humans and transmitted through food. (anses.fr)
  • Most worrisome of all, the animals were found afflicted with such severe diseases due to needless torture, malnourishment and the abominable filth in which they are made to live that the experiments being conducted on them are not likely to have much validity. (indiatogether.org)
  • One Health is a comparative clinical approach which promotes better collaboration between human and animal health professionals in order to reduce the spread of zoonotic diseases. (who.int)
  • When one researches about the medical ethics in human experimentation, it is difficult to disregard the harsh realities of it. (bartleby.com)
  • This is what many historians or researches call a human experimentation in which a human of course takes into an act of manipulation of the body for further understandment. (cram.com)
  • These experiments investigated the effect poisons had on humans. (bartleby.com)
  • Dogs, cattle, sheep, monkeys and other small animals are mainly the ones being experimented on. (exampleessays.com)
  • Strychnine is a very deadly drug to humans, but People for Reason in Science and Medicine, or PRISM says it has no affect on chickens, monkeys, or guinea pigs. (exampleessays.com)
  • I'm sure that if one of my children were afflicted with a life threatening disease and experimentation on monkeys had a plausible chance of finding a cure, I'd reluctantly support that research. (freakonomics.com)
  • Populations of free-roaming vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus), introduced to the Caribbean Island of Staint Kitts from Africa, live in close contact with humans, and concern has arisen regarding their potential to serve as reservoirs of zoonotic infections. (cdc.gov)
  • This bias persists despite extensive evidence that - like dogs, cats and primates - animals such as mice, rats and fish experience pain, stress and distress. (cbsnews.com)
  • Some scientists believe that humans and other primates shared a common ancestor millions of years ago and that at some point human animals split off to form their own evolutionary path. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Those who believe in the evolution theory think that human primates left the treetops and began walking upright, using their hands to make tools and increase their survivability. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Most nonhuman primates basically had a vegetarian diet, but human primates began capturing small animals and scavenging for meat from carcasses left behind by predators such as lions. (encyclopedia.com)
  • About two million years ago human primates began using stone tools and weapons. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Human strongyloidiasis is an important neglected tropical disease primarily caused by the nematode Strongyloides stercoralis, and to a lesser extent Strongyloides fuelleborni which mainly infects non-human primates. (cdc.gov)
  • Human experimentation has lead to advancements on the knowledge on how humans operate as a whole. (bartleby.com)
  • From groundbreaking medical advancements to controversial ethical debates, " Physical Experiments " uncovers the stories of groundbreaking discoveries and medical breakthroughs as we dive deep into the realm of human and animal experimentation. (weird-history-facts.com)
  • A public consultation in the United Kingdom-to which animal activists and scientists were not invited-found public support for openness and interest in a wide range of key information (Ipsos MORI, 2013). (brill.com)
  • While animal-rights activists make some convincing arguments, I believe that animal research is critical for the future of public health and deserves precedence over concern for animals. (exampleessays.com)
  • Now, however, animal-rights activists want to stop the use of animals for scientific and medical research. (exampleessays.com)
  • While some animal-rights activists claim that laboratory workers mistreat animals, scientists and res. (exampleessays.com)
  • Yet medical progress is being threatened by activists who would end the use of laboratory animals in the research for treatment and cures. (exampleessays.com)
  • Animal rights activists would not tolerate such experimentation on Guinea pigs in a million years. (opednews.com)
  • Till very recently, we too were influenced by the media portrayal of animal rights activists as extremist fundamentalists who are against all animal based experiments per se. (indiatogether.org)
  • Human experimentation is when human beings are used as test subjects to research scientific and medical resources. (bartleby.com)
  • Or are animals free beings with the right to live their lives without human interference? (encyclopedia.com)
  • the benefits to human beings are not proven. (onteenstoday.com)
  • any benefits to human beings that animal testing does provide could be produced in other ways. (onteenstoday.com)
  • Several Of the seventy or more medical-research projects conducted by the Nazi between the fall of 1939 and the spring of 1945 were conducted at Auschwitz ("Auschwitz Medical Experimentation). (cram.com)
  • The experiments carried out by Mengele in Auschwitz were funded by a grant from the German Research Council awarded to Verschuer, and any material taken from the victims, including human eyes, heads, and blood samples, were sent to the Kaiser Willhelm Institute in Berlin, headed by Verschuer himself. (historyonthenet.com)
  • He was the one who determined what prisoners would be sent for execution or forced labor in Auschwitz, and he headed up the human experiments performed at the camp. (historyonthenet.com)
  • In contrast, animal advocates emphasize the importance of public debate and awareness of the reality of research animals to improve animal welfare and to work towards an end of animal experimentation. (brill.com)
  • and reports on finished projects from an animal welfare point of view. (brill.com)
  • He and the other authors said the sharp increase in mice used in experiments that their study revealed could be driven by federal restrictions on the use of chimpanzees, dogs and cats due to growing public pressure, and the fact that mice and other smaller animals are not included in the Animal Welfare Act. (cbsnews.com)
  • In an article accompanying the study, Lisa Hara Levin of the animal welfare group Animal Care and Control of New York and William Reppy of Duke University said the study illustrated the need to reform policies related to animal research. (cbsnews.com)
  • They called for avoiding the use of animals in experiments when a non-animal alternative is available, increased transparency regarding animal experiments and a greater willingness to negotiate with responsible representatives of the animal rights and welfare community about problems they have concerning animals in institutions. (cbsnews.com)
  • Our researchers are strong supporters of animal welfare and view their work with animals in biomedical research as a privilege. (stanford.edu)
  • Animal research has been deemed important for both animal welfare as well as humanity at large. (exampleessays.com)
  • Our goal is to innovate without harming humans or our environment while respecting the welfare of animals. (balenciaga.com)
  • Prominent voices in the media have accused them of acting like storm troopers disrupting valuable research for human welfare. (indiatogether.org)
  • In addition, many of the members work hard to raise funds for animal welfare. (indiatogether.org)
  • Yet, awareness of animal welfare in society rises, and the transferability of findings obtained in rodent models to human physiology is challenged. (bvsalud.org)
  • Debates on the ethics of animal testing have raged since the seventeenth century. (onteenstoday.com)
  • Animal experimentation may be very harmful to animals and inhumane but it is the only thing right now that is helping to discover new medical advances. (123helpme.com)
  • Animal experimentations are very harmful the the animal body and is very cruel. (cram.com)
  • Humans are still not completely safe from harmful drugs because the animals' reaction would not be the same as humans. (exampleessays.com)
  • Testing on animals also serves to protect consumers, workers and the environment from the harmful effects of chemicals. (onteenstoday.com)
  • a possible outcome perhaps of man's interference with nature through technological advances and experimentation. (artshub.com.au)
  • All of them have developed a great deal of expertise through long years of working with animals as well as studying the latest advances in scientific methods in animal based experiments. (indiatogether.org)
  • Until such a discovery, animals must continue to play a critical role in helping researchers test potential new drugs and medical treatments for effectiveness and safety, and in identifying any undesired or dangerous side effects, such as infertility, birth defects, liver damage, toxicity, or cancer-causing potential. (stanford.edu)
  • Acute toxicity is a test where animals are force fed chemicals to find out the lethal dosage. (exampleessays.com)
  • In 2019, the EPA released a Work Plan (which was updated in 2021) outlining concrete steps the agency would take to reduce toxicity testing on animals and prioritize non-animal testing methods. (peta.org)
  • Even prior to the 2019 Work Plan, the EPA took steps to adopt the approach outlined in the landmark 2007 National Academy of Sciences report " Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy ," which presents a strategy for moving away from animal testing and toward cell-based and molecular (non-animal) approaches and the use of computational science. (peta.org)
  • This amendment to the outdated Toxic Substances Control Act requires that the agency develop, prioritize, and use non-animal testing methods before toxicity tests on animals are considered. (peta.org)
  • Special attention is given to the interpretation of animal reproductive toxicity studies which form the basis for human risk assessment of chemicals. (norecopa.no)
  • Risk assessment in Reproductive Toxicology: overview of guideline-based animal study test protocols, their use in testing strategies, parental versus fetal toxicity. (norecopa.no)
  • Receive email alerts on new books, offers and news in Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) Winter Meeting. (cambridge.org)
  • This approach was strongly inspired by the study of animal behaviour and has led to outstanding achievements in machine learning (e.g. in games, robotics, science). (nips.cc)
  • Perhaps one way to come to terms with this conundrum is to consider animal experimentation in more abstract terms, rather than on a case-by-case basis (with many of those "cases" being purely hypothetical). (freakonomics.com)
  • Abstract: In recent years, interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI), understood as a set of techniques used to train machines to approximate some aspects of human or animal cognition, has heightened. (lu.se)
  • If scientist did not experiment with animals many more people would lose their life (Derbyshire). (123helpme.com)
  • People are making an effort to save as many animals as possible when trying to experiment. (123helpme.com)
  • Humans have done some pretty twisted and inhuman things such as the Nazi Holocaust Experiment and Project MK-Ultra. (cram.com)
  • The implications of this sensitivity have radical implications for every experiment done on an animal. (freakonomics.com)
  • In essence, that they were all passive objects awaiting human action within the framework of an experiment designed to induce trauma. (freakonomics.com)
  • Scientists who might have been rearranging animal subjects for clinical traumatization would have been unwittingly already traumatizing their subjects, thereby screwing up the results and rendering the entire experiment, not to mention the harsh treatment of the rodents, totally pointless. (freakonomics.com)
  • In order to conduct animal experiments in Sweden, researchers must first apply for permission to an animal experiment ethical review board, which will run an ethical review of the proposed research study. (lu.se)
  • The research is to be conducted according to a protocol which has been reviewed and approved by the regional animal experiment ethical review board in Malmö/Lund. (lu.se)
  • Of the twelve remaining members, one half are researchers, animal experiment technicians or animal experiment staff. (lu.se)
  • Animals serve as models in biological research, such as in genetics, and in drug testing. (wikipedia.org)
  • Animals such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the zebrafish, the chicken and the house mouse, serve a major role in science as experimental models, being exploited both in fundamental biological research, such as in genetics, and in the development of new medicines, which must be tested exhaustively to demonstrate their safety. (wikipedia.org)
  • The development of new primary human cell culture technologies such as 3D culture, microfluidics and microfabrication in combination with human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) derived models promise to generate more relevant human physiological systems for drug testing 11 . (nature.com)
  • Human on a chip' systems containing several organotypic models linked together with microfluidic perfusion are promising but there are challenges to applying this approach in high throughput 12 . (nature.com)
  • and development of statistical and bioinformatic tools to link developed oceanographic models with less well developed human health exposure and disease models). (nih.gov)
  • With a shorter life cycle than humans, animal models can be studied throughout their whole life span and across several generations, a critical element in understanding how a disease processes and how it interacts with a whole, living biological system. (stanford.edu)
  • Researchers requesting use of animal models at Stanford must have their research proposals reviewed by a federally mandated committee that includes two independent community members. (stanford.edu)
  • The focus will be on human health and biomedical applications using computational models, animal models or human experimentation. (frontiersin.org)
  • This project resulted in the development, validation and application of computational models assessing dosimeter and biological response for individual and binary mixtures of insecticides in animal models and humans. (cdc.gov)
  • Models, Animal--congresses. (who.int)
  • Regarding animal models in ASD, many studies focus on gene expression, cortical neuronal migration and cell maturation, and neural network deficits. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, and poor choice of animal models in standardization of procedures in animal he disagrees with our conclusion. (who.int)
  • Animal models have been established in scientific research for centuries. (bvsalud.org)
  • PBPK models are effective tools for integrating diverse dose-response and mechanistic data in order to more accurately predict human risk. (cdc.gov)
  • Biologists classify the human animal as a member of the order Primate, along with chimpanzees and gorillas. (encyclopedia.com)
  • WISE: When you see that non-human animals like chimpanzees and bonobos actually understand their own beliefs, their own desires, their own intentions, and actually can divine what the beliefs or desires or intentions are of another chimpanzee or bonobo or of another human being, you realize you are working with incredibly sophisticated non-human animals. (loe.org)
  • I do not support animal experimentation because it brings pain and hurt and sometimes even death to harmless creatures, scientist forget to put themselves in that position and dont realize what they are doing and therefore they are in the wrong. (justtellmewhy.com)
  • In addition, its ToxCast program applies high-throughput, non-animal screening methods and computational toxicology approaches to prioritize chemicals rapidly for further study and to reduce the number of animals used. (peta.org)
  • Similarly, having a computational and theoretical framework, together with a normative perspective to refer to, could and does contribute to elucidate the mechanisms used by animals and humans to perform these tasks. (nips.cc)
  • The lab led by Assistant Prof. Camila Consiglio employs high-throughput multiomics technologies and advanced computational methods to explore sex differences in human immunity. (lu.se)
  • Scientists can start with hypotheses and test them on animals,but without human testing they will never know if the end results will actually make real human patients feel better. (bartleby.com)
  • COHH awards are expected to create an environment conducive to interdisciplinary and reciprocally beneficial collaborations among biomedical scientists (e.g., epidemiologists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, microbiologists, cell and molecular biologists) and ocean scientists (e.g., biological and physical oceanographers, geochemists, and ecologists) with the common goal of improving our knowledge of the impacts of the ocean on human health. (nih.gov)
  • The use of mice "reflects scientists' and laypersons' greater moral concern for animals in laboratories who are typical viewed as companion animals or as being human-like or having higher mental abilities," the authors wrote. (cbsnews.com)
  • Some scientists believe that humans were in awe of the wild and fierce animals that they hunted. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Scientists believe that mammoths and many other large animals were driven to extinction around 10,000 BC because of climate changes, over-hunting by humans, or both. (encyclopedia.com)
  • When you think of animal tests, you might think of a mouse or rat running around a maze with curious scientists looking on. (caringconsumer.com)
  • Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture put human growth hormone genes into pig embryos to produce faster growing hogs. (greens.org)
  • The point has to do with the fact that, as scientists use animals to further scientific knowledge, they do so without a full, or even half-full, understanding of the animals they're exploiting. (freakonomics.com)
  • Because the cart of experimentation has been put before the horse of knowledge, scientists routinely end up not only inadvertently harming animals, but unknowingly executing flawed experiments bound to yield inconsistent, and thus ultimately useless, results. (freakonomics.com)
  • In order to gain insight into the human experience of shock, scientists have long traumatized mice and studied their "microcirculatory shock profile. (freakonomics.com)
  • The antigen sources were human isolates of Animal experimentation guidelines were followed. (cdc.gov)
  • Macrolides (ie, cyclosporine, tacrolimus, sirolimus) inhibit production of or use of interleukin-2, thus inhibiting stimulation of a clone of cytotoxic T lymphocytes directed against specific human lymphocyte antigen types. (medscape.com)
  • Animal testing is the use of animals in biological, medical, and psychological studies. (123helpme.com)
  • Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts strongly prefers significant contributions whose results can be generalised to other systems, especially studies that characterise chemical processes (e.g. chemical and (micro)biological transformations and transport) as well as those that address contaminant impacts on ecosystems and human health. (rsc.org)
  • The postdoc project aims to use systems-level methodologies to investigate the impact of biological sex on human immunity. (lu.se)
  • The candidate will apply systems immunology methods to comprehensively profile the human immune system using various high-throughput technologies. (lu.se)
  • Animals are used to test new medical treatments to see if they will be effective on humans. (123helpme.com)
  • U.S. federal laws require that non-human animal research occur to show the safety and efficacy of new treatments before any human research will be allowed to be conducted. (stanford.edu)
  • Not only do we humans benefit from this research and testing, but hundreds of drugs and treatments developed for human use are now routinely used in veterinary clinics as well, helping animals live longer, healthier lives. (stanford.edu)
  • Experimentation also creates new unforeseen obstacles that challenge our methods and drives continual evolution. (balenciaga.com)
  • According to the American Anti-Vivisection Society , guinea pigs are the most common research animals, representing 22% of all animal experiments. (caringconsumer.com)
  • Most of these reports have been prepared by members of the government appointed Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA). (indiatogether.org)
  • This Committee came into existence way back in 1964 to ensure that experiments on animals are performed with due care and humanity. (indiatogether.org)
  • Some years ago Maneka Gandhi took charge of it and galvanised it into a powerful instrument for enforcing some accountability on the scientific community involved in conducting experiments on animals. (indiatogether.org)
  • It deals with the use of human subjects taking part in tests for usually scientific and/or medical purposes. (bartleby.com)
  • Animal experimentation is used in order to test products and to discover new medical research. (123helpme.com)
  • Animal experimentation can be very useful for testing new products and finding new medical treatment's to save people's lives. (123helpme.com)
  • Without the animals it would be very difficult to find new medical and to save a lot of people's lives. (123helpme.com)
  • The development and enhancement of medical research has been based on the testing of animals. (123helpme.com)
  • The study, in the Journal of Medical Ethics, found the number of animals tested rose from 1,566,994 in 1997 to 2,705,772 in 2012 in testing by the top 25 institutional recipients of National Institute of Health grants. (cbsnews.com)
  • We take our responsibility for the ethical treatment of animals in medical research very seriously. (stanford.edu)
  • Consumers are fed up with animal testing, the gruesome practice of testing products with animal research for medical experiments, makeup testing, chemical testing, and more. (caringconsumer.com)
  • As Humane Society International highlights, for example, over 12 million animals are experimented on within Europe every year, particularly for medical research. (caringconsumer.com)
  • Nazi Germany enacted strong legal restrictions on animal abuse and medical experimentation. (historyonthenet.com)
  • Bioethics tends to be dominated by discourses concerned with the ethical dimension of medical practice, the organization of medical care, and the integrity of biomedical research involving human subjects and animal testing. (erudit.org)
  • The American Veterinary Medical Association has defined One Health as "…the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally and globally, to attain optimal health for people, animals, and our environment" [2]. (who.int)
  • For example, in 2018 the EPA released a draft science policy on the use of non-animal approaches to skin allergy testing that have been shown to be equivalent or superior to animal tests in predicting human outcomes. (peta.org)
  • An horrible example is the human experimentation in the Soviet Union in 1921. (cram.com)
  • The most common theory is that he was the outcome of horrible human/animal hybrid experimentation. (ranker.com)
  • Skeletons found throughout parts of Africa show both human and nonhuman characteristics. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Jacques Derrida has explored the fundamental question of the "limit" that identifies and differentiates the human animal from the nonhuman animal. (erudit.org)
  • To pursue this question, however, means that our movement in language should be more radical than what has been undertaken to date, in which case we may well have to rectify our language by eschewing the very concepts "human" and "nonhuman," as well as the more basic concept "animal," which has its provenance in the Latin renditions of classical Greek philosophical nomenclature. (erudit.org)
  • Hence we come to what may very well be the inherent problem of animal experimentation: because we can never predict how an inarticulate animal capable of experiencing fear or pain or distress will react to the almost incalculable and endlessly subtle stimuli of any scientific environment, we can never fully trust the experimental results. (freakonomics.com)
  • In his 20 years as a lawyer, he's handled plenty of animal cases: disputes over property damage, veterinary malpractice, apartment rules forbidding pets. (loe.org)
  • At Stanford, we emphasize that the humane care of laboratory animals is essential, both ethically and scientifically. (stanford.edu)
  • But there's no ambiguity about the suffering that laboratory animals go through in the name of research. (caringconsumer.com)
  • This finding suggests that the In vitro Pyrogen Test (IPT) which uses human blood to detect contaminations, e.g. of injectable drugs, might predict the human reaction to the contamination better than the "gold standard" rabbit pyrogen test. (altex.org)
  • Human experimentation has always been a highly controversial topic and practice. (bartleby.com)
  • As I see it, one point in particular transcends specific examples of animal experimentation to suggest that we should be doing everything possible to eliminate the practice altogether-except perhaps in the most extreme cases of direct human benefit. (freakonomics.com)
  • Good Clinical Research Practice (GCP) is a process that incorporates established ethical and scientifi c quality standards for the design, conduct, recording and reporting of clinical research involving the participation of human subjects. (who.int)
  • According to studies by the Ethical Issues Associated with Human Subjects Research, that during the past centuries the experiments on humans have resulted in serious abuse and sometimes death to the researchers subjects. (bartleby.com)
  • In their public pronouncements, then, both researchers and animal advocates consider increased transparency to be in their own best interest (O'Sullivan, 2006). (brill.com)
  • Yellow Fever and Human Experimentation As researchers traveled to Cuba to study the disease, United States Army researchers soon discovered the cause of Yellow Fever. (cram.com)
  • Stanford Researchers are Obligated to Ensure the Well-Being of All Animals in Their Care. (stanford.edu)
  • Stanford researchers are obligated to ensure the well-being of animals in their care, in strict adherence to the highest standards, and in accordance with federal and state laws, regulatory guidelines, and humane principles. (stanford.edu)
  • Stanford researchers have made many important human and animal life-saving discoveries through their work. (stanford.edu)
  • In 1997, Japanese researchers reported inserting a complete human chromosome into mice to produce human antibodies. (greens.org)
  • researchers should not only avoid research and disease control and preven- evidence from animal experiments" using more animals for experiments tion methods are mutually beneficial to [1], touches on a number of important than needed, they should also aim to humans, animals and the environment. (who.int)
  • Skin irritation tests are when chemicals are placed on the bare skin of animals, which the animal is restrained. (exampleessays.com)
  • It is important to stress that 95% of all animals necessary for biomedical research in the United States are rodents - rats and mice especially bred for laboratory use - and that animals are only one part of the larger process of biomedical research. (stanford.edu)
  • Innovation is ultimately experimentation, which is essential to Balenciaga's creative process as well as how we run our business. (balenciaga.com)
  • This marine pollution causes significant damage to marine ecology and has multiple potential negative impacts on human health. (nih.gov)
  • Animal experimentation may be very important but it is questioned whether or not if it is wrong and if there is any way to find substitutions in place of using animals. (123helpme.com)
  • Throughout history, animal testing has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefit. (123helpme.com)
  • If animals are not well-treated, the science and knowledge they produce is not trustworthy and cannot be replicated, an important hallmark of the scientific method . (stanford.edu)
  • Animal Rights are as important, if not equally important to human rights. (exampleessays.com)
  • The Declaration of Human Sovereignty Regarding ET Nations-VERY IMPORTANT READ! (beforeitsnews.com)
  • By identifying which proteins are most important for infants, laboratories will be able to produce formula more similar to mother's milk by inserting human genes. (greens.org)
  • entitled "One health: perspectives on ethical issues and evidence from animal experiments" [1], touches on a number of important points, but fails to go far enough in exploring the innovative nature of a One Health approach to a number of scientific and ethical issues related to the overlap of human and animal health. (who.int)
  • Thirteen out 15 of the world's largest cities lay on or near coasts and the proximity of human populations to ocean coasts is not surprising when our past, current and future dependence on coastal waterways for food, commerce, travel and recreation are taken into consideration. (nih.gov)
  • Human populations are extremely dependent on the ocean for work, food, travel and recreation and many aspects of health maintenance are also associated with the oceans. (nih.gov)
  • special emphasis on accurate estimation of adverse health effects associated with chemical exposure in human populations. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition, the Eastmond laboratory has an active research program in which molecular cytogenetic techniques are used to detect chromosomal alterations occurring in chemically exposed human populations. (cdc.gov)
  • For example, an opinion poll, commissioned by Humane Research Australia ( hra ) in 2013, found that 43% of Australians were not aware that animals are used in experimental research in Australia ( Humane Research Australia, 2016a ). (brill.com)
  • Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar), an Arab physician in twelfth century Moorish Spain, introduced animal testing as an experimental method for testing surgical procedures before applying them to human patients. (onteenstoday.com)
  • Only now, however, are we coming to realize how incredibly sensitive experimental animals are to differential experimental environments, handlers, and procedures. (freakonomics.com)
  • Animales no humanos, seleccionados por sus características específicas, para uso en investigación experimental, enseñanza o testeo. (bvsalud.org)
  • This shift is grounded in the capability of modern, non-animal methods to assess chemicals and chemical mixtures more reliably and rapidly than animal testing does and thereby better protect humans and the environment. (peta.org)
  • The problem of inserting human genes into food destined for human consumption is not so different. (greens.org)
  • Transplanting human genes into animals destined for human consumption is not a fantasy of a hypothetical future it is history which can be expanded. (greens.org)
  • I am on principle sympathetic with those who, it seems to me, are in the right and have good reasons to rise up against the way animals are treated: in industrial production, in slaughter, in consumption, in experimentation. (erudit.org)
  • Textiles from the most utilitarian to the most luxurious are often made from non-human animal fibres such as wool, camel hair, angora, cashmere, and mohair. (wikipedia.org)
  • Animal Experimentation Jeremy Bentham a philosopher and a utilitarian humanitarian once said, "The question is not, "Can they reason? (123helpme.com)
  • Other animal-based experiments, however, appear to have genuine utilitarian value, contributing useful information to our knowledge of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and several cancers. (freakonomics.com)
  • even a simple search can reveal that nociception is found, in one form or another, across all major animal taxa. (justtellmewhy.com)
  • The Nazis performed several terrible experiments on human subjects in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. (historyonthenet.com)
  • S/R 19: Will Human Genes Be Spliced into Food for People? (greens.org)
  • What about 50 human genes or an entire human chromosome? (greens.org)
  • Given such a lack of consensus, we might expect that there would be a national discussion of using human genes in food. (greens.org)
  • This would suggest that, even if there was no debate on whether or not to produce food with human genes, if it were done, such food should be labeled so that those who choose not to consume it could do so. (greens.org)
  • Experimentation with introducing human genes into the food supply is already well advanced. (greens.org)
  • There is good reason to suspect that the number of human genes in food will increase during the next few years. (greens.org)
  • As this happens, industry is developing rationalizations of why human genes in food is not an issue deserving attention and governments are making it increasingly difficult for people to find out exactly what they are eating. (greens.org)
  • Biotechnology companies have also investigated putting human genes into animals for food production. (greens.org)
  • Could another research team overcome these problems and successfully implant human genes into pigs or cattle or goats or chickens? (greens.org)
  • The object of our study aimed to review and to correlate genes involved in ASD and those related to ultrasonic communication in animal model studies of language-based social behavior at the PubMed database. (bvsalud.org)
  • El objetivo de nuestro estudio tuvo como objetivo revisar y correlacionar genes involucrados en TEA y aque- llos relacionados con la comunicación ultrasónica en estudios con modelos animales de comportamiento social basado en el lenguaje en la base de datos PubMed. (bvsalud.org)
  • They are also obligated to continuously update their animal-care practices based on the newest information and findings in the fields of laboratory animal care and husbandry. (stanford.edu)
  • How much human material spliced into a living organism would make a product "essentially human? (greens.org)
  • The use of animals in some forms of biomedical research remains essential to the discovery of the causes, diagnoses, and treatment of disease and suffering in humans and in animals. (stanford.edu)
  • In this paper, I examine what Derrida's thought about this limit might mean for the use/misuse/abuse of animals in contemporary biomedical research. (erudit.org)
  • Animals are also used to test new cosmetic products before they are used on humans. (123helpme.com)
  • I'll say yes, because there are so many things about our own biology we wouldn't know if we didn't test on animals. (justtellmewhy.com)
  • why not test on humans? (justtellmewhy.com)
  • Through the determination of Yellow Fever Experimentation Carols Finlay, decides to test his theory of mosquito transmission. (cram.com)
  • Who was the first person to test on animals? (onteenstoday.com)
  • We developed a novel two-stage decision making protocol to test if humans learn and transfer multi-step options. (nips.cc)
  • Evidence: Many systematic reviews published in the Cochrane library are inconclusive and unable to provide clinical recommendations after randomized controlled trials have been undertaken based on the results of animal experiments. (who.int)
  • er in studies, and generating evidence in relation to ethics and a pathway to Ethics: Subjecting human volun- ethically from prospective registration generating robust evidence from animal teers to trials in the absence of adequate of animal experiments similar to regis- experiments and certainly not, as seems results generated from animal studies, tration of clinical trials in humans. (who.int)
  • People may have offered sacrifices of animals or other food to keep the spirits happy. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The habitats and food supplies for both humans and animals began to change. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The crimes are typically intended to disrupt logging, the recreational use of wilderness, or the use of animals for fur, food or research. (exampleessays.com)
  • Is it cannibalism to eat food with one human gene? (greens.org)
  • One gene which could be put into human food with current technology is human growth hormone (hGH). (greens.org)
  • Will Food and Beverage Testing in Taiwan Go Animal-Free? (peta.org)
  • Some in the research community have supported increased transparency to improve the public's understanding of animal research and boost its acceptability. (brill.com)
  • Stanford shares the public's concern for laboratory research animals. (stanford.edu)
  • All chemicals for commercial or personal use must be tested so that their effect on the people and animals exposed to them is understood. (onteenstoday.com)
  • However, the EPA and other regulatory agencies are shifting toward the use of more reliable, non-animal testing, driven by a need to accurately and rapidly assess the thousands of chemicals that humans and the environment are exposed to on a daily basis. (peta.org)
  • As a human, one does not have to suffer through unconsenting pain because no one would ever consent to be treated the way lab rats would be treated. (123helpme.com)
  • This funding opportunity announcment (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) solicits grant applications that address research approaches to problems that are relevant to oceans and human health. (nih.gov)
  • Investigations are performed using a variety of chemical, biochemical and molecular approaches with isolated enzyme, cell culture and animal model systems. (cdc.gov)