Microbiota, laboratory animals, and research

Animals in the research laboratory: science or pseudoscience?

What distinguishes science from pseudoscience? Is the demarcation linked to the application of the laws of probability? Is it possible to derive any valid law of nature from a finite number of facts? Answers to such questions, and, thus, a construction of a line of demarcation between science and pseudoscience are problems of vital social and political importance. This issue is especially relev...

Allergy to laboratory animals in laboratory technicians and animal keepers.

The prevalence of allergy to laboratory animals (LAA) was investigated in laboratory technicians and animal keepers. In a questionnaire 41 of 101 technicians reported symptoms provoked by work with laboratory animals. On clinical investigation 30 were found to have symptoms and signs related to contact with animals, and allergy was confirmed by radioallergosorbent tests (RAST) and skin tests in...

Literature Related to Laboratory Animals

red: morph-specific contest success and survival rates in a colour polymorphic agamid lizard. Animal Behaviour 74:337-341. in females is also lateralized: left-eye bias during aggressive courtship rejection in lizards. Assessment in contests of male lizards (Anolis carolinensis): how should smaller males respond when size matters? Animal Behaviour 69:1325-1336.

Care and Management of Laboratory Animals

Laboratory animals and the art of empathy.

Consistency is the hallmark of a coherent ethical philosophy. When considering the morality of particular behaviour, one should look to identify comparable situations and test one's approach to the former against one's approach to the latter. The obvious comparator for animal experiments is non-consensual experiments on people. In both cases, suffering and perhaps death is knowingly caused to t...