Animal experiments and 3R: Interview with animal ethicist Herwig Grimm
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Bern (ots) - Some research relies almost entirely on animal models. An example is the SNSF-funded project on virus surveillance in the mouse brain. "The immune system has a place where it is born, a place where it is educated and a place where it goes to work." Natalia Pikor, research group leader at St. Gallen cantonal hospital, is studying one of the most complicated systems in the bodies of vertebrate animals and ...
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The ethical dilemma of forensic therapy
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Dormice may have hibernated as early as 34 million years ago
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