The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has issued a policy statement on smoke inhalation procedures in mice and rats, recommending that: ‘Due to the significant adverse impacts of the nose-only exposure procedure on animal wellbeing and the potential confounding effects of these impacts on scientific outcomes, the use
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has released a policy statement on the Forced Swim Test (FST), a behavioural despair test in rodents used to screen anti-depressant drugs, which involves placing a mouse or rat in a beaker of water and forcing them to swim, offering no escape
Summary 231 Australian merino wether sheep were exposed to live export conditions for 21 days. The sheep had standing and lying positions recorded before being transported for slaughter. The research was funded by Meat and Livestock Australia, LiveCorp and the Australian government. Explore the ethical concerns for these sheep kept
Thank you to all of you generous and kind people who donate to our recent Ethical Jobs Matched Funding campaign. This campaign highlighted the cruel Forced Swim Test and Forced smoking research in Australian institutions and ran from 14th -21st September. A big thank you as well to Ethicaljobs.com.au who
What if there was a future reality without sickness and disease? A future where you had a digital human twin and feedback from your smart watch and other bio feedback monitors could help predict and prevent disease and injury. A digital human twin would make this a reality! In this
Article originally published by The Conversation, 31 August, 2023. Republished under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Written by Greg Williams, Associate Director of CSIRO Futures and Laura-Anne Thomas, Strategy Manager for CSIRO Futures. Tweet this “In addition to ethical reasons for minimising animal use, reality is, animals just aren’t that good
The Australian Openness Agreement is a voluntary pledge that can be signed by organisations wishing to demonstrate commitment to greater transparency in the use of animals for research or teaching. The launch of the Agreement places Australia alongside nine other countries with similar agreements. The first of these was the
Animals Australia (AA) and Humane Research Australia (HRA) announce the second Helen Marston Compassionate Advocacy Project in memory of Helen Marston, a lifelong campaigner for animals and former CEO of HRA. Helen came to be an authority on the complex issue of animal experimentation whilst representing AA and HRA during
The application of the 3Rs across Australian universities has gained traction, yet in the second decade of the millennium, we still have far to go With large gaps in our reporting of animal use, the animals covered under protective acts, collating national statistics that are useful, and lack of
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