Today, the 30th September, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published its report ‘Genome editing: an ethical review’ which considers the impact of recent advances in gene editing and the ethical questions which these advances...
Posted 30 Sep 2016
Animal Aid can reveal that the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) played a central role in a series of gruesome experiments on female sheep. Some of these are reported to have gone seriously wrong, which resulted...
Posted 23 Sep 2016
According to Dr Michael Bracken, as much as 87.5 per cent of all biomedical research may be wasteful and inefficient1. The Susan Dwight Bliss professor of epidemiology at Yale University School of Public Health is...
Posted 24 Aug 2016
The shocking extent of animal use for scientific research is revealed today in Home Office statistics, relating to all vivisection completed in 2015. A total of 4.14 million procedures were conducted on animals, including dogs,...
Posted 20 Jul 2016
Internal Royal Veterinary College documents, obtained by Animal Aid under Freedom of Information legislation, reveal a series of blunders by college researchers performing animal experiments, that have resulted in dogs, sheep, guinea pigs and other...
Posted 29 Jun 2016
This week, a grotesque new chapter in the genetic modification of animals hit the headlines. Employing a new ‘wonder gene-editing tool’, pigs are being used to grow organs for transplantation into humans.
Posted 07 Jun 2016
Animal Aid has long campaigned against vivisection and the involvement of medical research charities in this shocking practice. We are pleased to announce the launch of our new campaign, Don’t leave a legacy of suffering.
Posted 29 Apr 2016
Pigs given heart attacks by blocking their arteries. Pregnant sheep surgically mutilated, recording devices inserted into their unborn lambs, then the ewes part-suffocated before being killed. GM mice given cancer after months of dosing with chemical used...
Posted 29 Apr 2016
World Day for Animals in Laboratories is marked on the 24th April each year. Established in 1979, this is a day when people around the globe gather to remember those animals who have suffered and...
Posted 21 Apr 2016
The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has bred a colony of dogs with a genetic flaw, leading them to suffer a canine version of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). They will be killed when just 18 months...
Posted 06 Apr 2016
