Can ‘mini brains’ replace lab animals? Organoids are changing how scientists study disease

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...
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Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research

Animal testing remains a fundamental part of biomedical research. But as funding evaporates, mice, rats and even monkeys may be euthanized. By Emily Anthes On April 1, the Trump administration’s ...
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Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals: Eighth Edition

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...
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Guidelines for the Care and Use of Mammals in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research

Suggested Citation: "1 Regulatory and Ethical Considerations." National Research Council. 2003. Guidelines for the Care and Use of Mammals in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research. Washington, DC: The ...
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Defining the laboratory animal IV Symposium, International Committee on Laboratory Animals organized by the International Committee on Laboratory Animals and the Institute of ...

The 2d symposium, held in 1961, has name: Symposium on the Problems of Laboratory Animal Diseases. The 3d symposium, held in 1965, is unnamed and is entered under title: Husbandry of laboratory ...