Woman of the Day philosopher, historian and author Mary Wollstonecraft born OTD 1759 in Spitalfields, London, widely regarded as one of the UK’s first feminists. Her reputation was unjustly shredded for a century after her early death but her influence was far-reaching and can…

New studies demonstrate how brain and gut organoids can provide cures for severe human genetic diseases.
nature.com/articles/d4158…
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Using human-relevant organoids, researchers at the University of Washington
have found potential therapies to treat polycystic kidney disease, a life-threatening, inherited kidney disorder which thus far has been without any effective treatments.
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New study shows that unique cortical wiring patterns underlie human specific cognition. No wonder experiments with mice lead nowhere when trying to model human diseases that include higher cortical functions.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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Take note: animals are not just machines!
quantamagazine.org/insects-and-ot…
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Why do some university researchers not want members of the public to know exactly what they are doing?
freep.com/story/news/loc…
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How biomedical research wastes animal lives.
ithaca.com/news/ithaca/fo…

A team of researchers have created a fully vascularized organoid that more accurately mimics the speed and flow rate of blood, which enables the organoids to survive longer. #humanrelevant
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Sick science! We need to cure Parkinson's disease but not by giving it to monkeys!
science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…
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Perhaps we need to think more critically about whether our experiments are really ethical?
forbes.com/sites/christia…

Getting closer to a human based non-animal assay for the development of new pain drugs.
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

View my lecture on the 'Rise and Fall of Animal Experimentation'.
shorturl.at/gj379
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Thanks to Richard J. Miller for speaking about his new book, 'The Rise and Fall of Animal Experimentation' at
DePaul Law this afternoon! Video to be available soon!

Buy his book @ richardjmillerscientist.com

Testing antidepressant drugs in mice:going nowhere fast!
science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

Cruel an unnecessary! Good scientific aims do not need to be supported by bad science!
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The bodies of sentient beings are not disposable laboratory tools, and their lives are more than mere statistics. Animal-based research has an overwhelming failure rate and the reliance on such archaic and cruel methods must end. caareusa.org

A little kindness goes a long way.
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024…
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Read my new interview about the role of women in the history of the animal rights movement.
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Researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich have developed a new imaging procedure by working with human brain tissue that may aid in diagnosing and treating multiple sclerosis..
ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…