Why scientists perform animal experiments, scientific or personal aim?

Aim: to Practise Scientific Methods. Result: Personal Development

Field work in a teacher training program was focussed on the collection and presentation of data showing changes in the environment depending on variable factors. The observations should be possible to use as models for studies performed by children at school. The instructions were sparse and many of the observations from the first visit to the sites were impossible to repeat. The first four ob...

Why Perform Epitope Binning?

Epitope Binning # 6.140522 An important step in the engineering of biotherapeutics is to characterize and group a library of monoclonal antibod-ies by the epitope binding regions generated against a specific antigen. This “epitope binning” enables the maintenance of epitope diversity and provides important information to broaden intellectual property protection. IBIS Technologies and Wasatch Mi...

Scientists and animal research: Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?

The need to reform personal injury law leaving scientific disputes to scientists.

Personal injury law is staggeringly inefficient as a system of victim compensation. There is little reason to assume that it importantly curtails unreasonably dangerous conduct, yet there is good reason to conclude that it promotes socially undesirable behavior. Moreover, the tort law system ill serves the goal of individual justice, in part because it assumes that lay juries can correctly deci...

“A Good Personal Scientific Relationship”: Philip Morris Scientists and the Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok

BACKGROUND This paper examines the efforts of consultants affiliated with Philip Morris (PM), the world's leading transnational tobacco corporation, to influence scientific research and training in Thailand via the Chulabhorn Research Institute (CRI). A leading Southeast Asian institute for environmental health science, the CRI is headed by Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn, ...