BBC Radio 4's Today programme broke the news in January that Cambridge University was abandoning its plans for a massive primate research centre. This followed years of campaigning against the project - at the centre...
Posted 01 Mar 2004
The BBC's Today radio programme, in breaking the news that Cambridge University was abandoning plans for a massive primate centre, helped set the tone for the press and broadcast coverage that followed. The tone was...
Posted 01 Feb 2004
Following the joint Animal Aid/NAVS High Court challenge to John Prescott, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) has launched its own important case in which the government and Cambridge University are again...
Posted 01 Jan 2004
PPL Therapeutics, the company behind Dolly the Sheep and other cloning techniques, has put itself up for sale. Chief executive Geoff Cook and four other directors have resigned.
Posted 01 Dec 2003
The following powerful endorsement of the growing scientific opposition to experiments on primates appeared in the Daily Telegraph on 30th September 2003. It is written by the Telegraph's leading health writer, Dr James Le Fanu.
Posted 30 Sep 2003
Scientific opposition to experiments on primates is considerable and growing - as evidenced by a letter published in the Daily Telegraph on 23rd September 2003.
Posted 23 Sep 2003
Animal Aid's Mad Science Awards (AAMSAs) - handed out each August for pointless and grotesque scientific research - this year go to research teams from 14 establishments who conducted invasive experiments on horses.
Posted 14 Aug 2003
On July 1st the Animal Procedures Committee (APC) - the government's official 'independent' advisory body on animal experiments - launched its new report on the use of primates under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (1986).
Posted 01 Jul 2003
We continue pressing ahead with our campaign for humane research - undaunted by the complications!
Posted 01 Jun 2003
The following article, which draws on Animal Aid's Bred to Suffer report, appeared in The Times, Tuesday 30th July 2002.
Posted 30 Jul 2002