Yesterday, 3 December, the Home Office department that regulates animal experiments published its annual report, and it makes for grim reading. The report covers 2017, and outlines 40 cases of ‘non-compliance’ with the law on...
Posted 04 Dec 2018
Today (8th November) the Home Office released figures showing that, in addition to the 3.72 million animals who were used in scientific procedures in Great Britain in 2017, another 1.81 million animals were bred for...
Posted 08 Nov 2018
Animal Aid has discovered that Parkinson’s UK will provide funding of more than £780,000 for work which will include testing a drug named NLX-112 on primates.
Posted 28 Sep 2018
Home Office statistics, released today, reveal the horrifying scale of experiments on living animals in Great Britain. In 2017, 3,721,744 animals were used for the first time, including monkeys, dogs, cats, horses, mice, rats and...
Posted 19 Jul 2018
Animal Aid has uncovered shocking experiments involving monkeys being brain-damaged with a toxic chemical. Later, they were force-fed different drugs and observed for ten hours, while blood samples were regularly taken from their thighs.
Posted 24 Apr 2018
Researchers wishing to conduct animal experiments must produce a ‘non-technical summary’ of what they plan to do. These summaries are published once the experiments are authorised, often more than a year after they have started....
Posted 17 Apr 2018
When researchers apply for permission to carry out animal experiments, they must produce a ‘non-technical summary’ of what they will be doing. These summaries are published after the experiments are authorised, often a year or...
Posted 11 Apr 2018
When a researcher applies for permission to carry out an animal experiment, they have to produce a ‘non-technical summary’ of what they will be doing. These summaries are published after the experiments are authorised, often...
Posted 29 Mar 2018
Yesterday (Monday 12th March) saw the publication of the 2016 annual report from the Home Office unit that regulates animal experiments in the UK. The report described 45 instances of ‘non-compliance’ involving mice, monkeys, rats...
Posted 13 Mar 2018
British Medical Journal investigation of animal research finds a 'pick and mix approach' to Oxford University's animal research for a new vaccine.
Posted 11 Jan 2018