Animal research has improved health, prevented disease and saved lives of both humans and animals. Life-changing therapies ranging from vaccines and cancer therapies to organ transplants have helped millions worldwide. Many human diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, and arthritis also exist in animals and corresponding veterinary treatments have been based on therapies for humans.
For a timeline illustrating the many medical advances achieved through animal research, visit http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/your_health/timeline
Sharing the planet with animals sometimes means sharing diseases such as SARS, avian influenza, or swine flu. But it can also mean sharing benefits of animal research.
For example, animals and humans can suffer from different versions of the same disease. Veterinary treatments for diabetes, cancer and arthritis are based on corresponding therapies for people developed through animal research.
Animal activists' terror tactics drive staff out of laboratories
Medical research to develop new drugs is put at risk as workers quit after being attacked and smeared as paedophiles.
http://bit.ly/N9kFJb
UBC scientists reverse diabetes in mice using stem-cell transplants
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/scientists+reverse+diabetes+mice+using+stem+cell+transplants/6848736/story.html
Amphetamine Spurs Slackers to Work and Workers to Slack — at Least For Rats
http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/29/amphetamine-spurs-slackers-to-work-and-workers-to-slack-at-least-for-rats/
Why animal research is more essential than ever
John Hepburn, UBC Vice President Research and International, makes the case for animal research in the Vancouver Sun of Monday, March 12th 2012 (page A-7)
University of Toronto clarifies position on primate research
Nature's Newsblog, a more nuanced description of U of T's commitment to projects involving non-human primates.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/03/university-of-toronto-refines-stance-on-research-primates.html#wpn-more-16112
Science blogger assesses allegations
Speaking of Research science blogger comments on allegations being made about a recent UBC Parkinson’s study.
http://speakingofresearch.com/2012/03/06/stop-lying-about-research-at-the-university-of-british-columbia/
Transparency ensures ideals met
UBC's new methods of looking at the ethics of animal research are leading the way to an improved future, says Judy Illes, Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics, in a Vancouver Sun op-ed.
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Transparency+ensures+ideals/5673327/story.html
The Ethics of Life, Use and Care is the first lecture in the Bringing the Collective Together: Nonhuman Animals, Humans and Practice at the University thematic series at Green College.
The presentation will focus on questions of ethics that interrogate habits of thought in the humanities and sciences.
http://www.greencollege.ubc.ca/whats_on/index/main3/events/category99.php
“Why I am a Laboratory Animal Veterinarian”
Kelly Walton DVM, a third year student of comparative medicine at Colorado State University, explains why her love of animals led her to a career in laboratory animal welfare.
Rodent euthanasia methods under scrutiny
Study shows anaesthetics may be a more humane way to kill rats and mice than carbon dioxide, but reveals a surprising twist.
Three Who Stood Up
Their reputations were attacked. Their homes were damaged. Their lives were threatened. But these UCLA scientists refused to back down in the face of assaults by anti-animal-research extremists.
Don't Have the Wool Pulled Over Your Eyes
I suspect that most people don't realize how much they owe their well-being, even their lives, to research using experimental animals.
KEEPING WATCH
UBC academics plan an international forum to explore new models of regulating animal research that enhance public involvement
UBC releases report on care of research animals
NewsFROM FARM TO LAB
Lab animals present a new field for animal welfare studies
FACING CANCER
Lived experience reaffirms the role of animals in life-saving science.
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2012/07/04/facing-cancer/
Creatures great and small
The first of a series on animals in research looks at four basic science studies. Upcoming articles will address animals in medical research, and how animal research is governed.
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2012/06/06/creatures-great-and-small/
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: LETTERS
Campus letters on animal research
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2012/06/06/in-their-own-words-letters/
Coffee and other stimulant drugs may cause high achievers to slack off: UBC study
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2012/03/28/coffee-and-other-stimulant-drugs-may-cause-high-achievers-to-slack-off-ubc-study/
UBC animal research vindicated by Canadian Council on Animal Care
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2012/03/19/ubc-animal-research-vindicated-by-federal-regulator/
Why animal research is more essential than ever
John Hepburn, UBC Vice President Research and International, makes the case for animal research in the Vancouver Sun of Monday, March 12th 2012 (page A-7)
ANIMALS IN RESEARCH
The UBC community examines a tough issue.
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2012/02/01/animals-in-research/
