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New thinking on animal experiments

National regulations on animal experiments vary widely between countries but growing numbers of researchers in Britain believe that the procedures are in need of an overhaul. And a new report by a group of members of Britain’s upper house of parliament, the House of Lords, advises a shakeup that both speeds up consideration of researchers’ requests but opens up public scrutiny of such work. The...

Classroom Experiments: Is More More?

Over the last 20 years, a considerable literature on the efficacy of classroom economics experiments in promoting student achievement has developed. Researchers find that student achievement is generally enhanced (or at least unharmed) by exposure to a pedagogy utilizing classroom experiments. While these findings have encouraged the adoption of classroom experiments, questions remain perhaps m...

EU statistics on animal experiments for 2014.

Whole Animal Experiments Should Be More Like Human Randomized Controlled Trials

1 FOODplus Research Centre, School of Agriculture Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Australia, 2 Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 Department of Paediatrics: Child and Youth Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 4 Gravida, National Centre for Growth and Development, New Zealand, 5 Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Me...

Systematic reviews of animal experiments.

There are strong scientific, ethical and legislative imperatives to replace animal experiments, rather than focusing efforts on improving them. Therefore, the Dr Hadwen Trust advocates that when systematic reviews identify weaknesses in animal experiments, the priority should be their replacement with more relevant non-animal methods. Individual researchers, universities, companies, funders and...