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Posts Tagged 'Animal Research'
Science Policy Around the Web – June 10, 2017
By: Allison Dennis, BS
Animal Testing
Lack of Clarity Puts Chemical Safety and Animal Welfare at Odds
In the lineup of American stereotypes, the health-nut who cares about the chemicals in his shampoo is often the same person who cares if that shampoo was tested on animals or not. However, a bill signed June 22, 2016, known as the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, may be placing those two views at odds. The bill requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement a risk-based process to evaluate the safety of chemical substances currently being used in the marketplace and approve the use of new chemicals before their introduction. The bill was passed with bipartisan support and offered EPA the new-found power to fully regulate the use of well-known carcinogens like asbestos.
Yet the pathway forward for the EPA is daunting. More than 62,000 substances find their way into and onto our bodies through the products we use and our environment. While many of these substances have become associated with disease over time, how can the EPA certify the risks associated with different exposures to varying amounts of each substance on such an extensive list? The Act itself suggested that once the EPA has evaluated the existing information on the 62,000 substances currently in use, it spend the next twelve months triaging chemicals according to their potential risk. Next, the highest priority chemicals will be evaluated on a three-year deadline to develop knowledge of their toxicity and guidelines for their regulation. Ultimately, by clearly cataloging the risk of common chemicals the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act promises to greatly reduce the amount of animal testing needed in the long-term.
In the meantime, however, the companies that use to-be-regulated substances in their products may be inclined to undertake independent toxicity testing, collecting enough data to guarantee that their favorite substances meet the low-risk criteria and avoid a drawn-out evaluation. Defining toxicity requires careful experimentation, which can sometimes be carried out in human cells outside of the body, but often require evaluation in animals. Animal rights groups like the Human Society find concern with the lack of transparency in the pre-prioritization process. They fear the eagerness of companies to provide data without any clear guidelines about how that data will be evaluated or what substances will require extensive evaluation could result in extensive and unnecessary animal testing. Further they suggested that the EPA require any new pre-approval data obtained by companies to be collected using non-animal methods. (Maggie Koerth-Baker, FiveThirtyEight)
Small Study may Reveal Big Concerns over CRISPR-Based Therapy
A one-page letter published in Nature Methods last week reports unexpectedly high levels of unintended changes to the genomes of mice that underwent a CRISPR-based therapy. Since it's renaissance as a therapeutic tool in 2012, CRISPR has occupied the imaginations of scientists, doctors, patients, investors, and ethicists. CRISPR technology provides a relatively straight-forward and reproducible means to gene editing on the cellular level, but its applications to create heritable mutations in the human germ line is on hold until more is understood about the long-term effects such treatments would have.
The original study sought to explore potential long-term effects of germline manipulation by CRISPR in a mouse model. Guide RNA along with the Cas9 enzyme were injected into mouse zygotes, which introduced a correction in a mutation in the rd1 gene of otherwise blind mice. Initiating this change before the first cell division enabled this corrected mutation to be inherited by all cells arising in the developing mouse, consequently restoring the ability for the eyes to develop normally. In a follow-up experiment described in their one page letter, the researchers looked for mutations in the genomic DNA of two CRISPR-treated adult mice compared with a control mouse, revealing over 2,000 unintended mutations following CRISPR treatments. None of these mutations appeared to affect the mice, suggesting that deep genomic sequencing may be required to reveal unanticipated changes in an outwardly healthy mouse. Further, the nature of these unintended mutations offered few clues explaining how they might have occurred.
This result stands in contrast with other reports quantifying the extent of these unintended changes, which found CRISPR to be highly specific. While the CRISPR-Cas9 system has been observed to sometimes alter off-target regions of the genome, this activity can usually be curbed through the careful design and evaluation of the guide RNA. The limitations of this small study have been discussed extensively since its publication. However, the findings have sparked the need for further investigation into the long-term-whole-animal effects of germline-editing by CRISPR. As human germline-editing creeps closer to reality, the FDA will be tasked with developing an entirely new means of evaluating the safety of such technologies (Megan Molteni, Wired)
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Science Policy Around the Web – February 24, 2017
By: Alida Palmisano, PhD
Public Access to Data
Lawsuit Aims to Force USDA to Repost Scrubbed Animal Welfare Records
"Put the records back on the internet."
An article published in Science discusses a lawsuit filed on February 13 against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by an animal law expert at Harvard University. According to the plaintiffs, USDA violated the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) when it removed thousands of animal welfare inspection reports and other records from a publicly accessible website. USDA generated records that document animal facility inspections, enforcement actions, animal censuses, and other information collected by the agency in the course of enforcing the federal Animal Welfare Act. The law covers animals in more than 7800 facilities, including zoos, roadside circuses, and research laboratories at government agencies and academic medical centers.
The decision to remove the public access to these records may have been a response to a lawsuit involving another law, the Horse Protection Act. The plaintiffs in a 2016 Texas lawsuit accused USDA of violating their rights under the Privacy Act by posting inspection documents required by the Horse Protection Act. A resulting USDA review of all its public postings led the agency to scrub from its website documents generated under both the Horse Protection Act and the Animal Welfare Act. In the future, the agency announced, people who want access to those records will need to file a FOIA request. The agency's most recent FOIA report states that it takes an average of 94 days for the agency to respond to a simple FOIA request and 234 days on average for more complicated requests.
In February 13's lawsuit, the plaintiffs invoke a section of FOIA that requires agencies to make publicly available electronically all records that it has released under FOIA which "because of the nature of the subject matter, the agency determines have become or are likely to become the subject of subsequent requests for substantially the same records." (Meredith Wadman, ScienceInsider)
Science and Immigration
Grad Students, Postdocs with U.S. Visas Face Uncertainty
While U.S. courts are busy handling President Donald Trump's travel ban on immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, the temporary shut down of the executive order, the appeal to reinstate the travel ban, the rejection of the immediate restoration of the ban, and more appeals and rulings, graduates and postdoctoral students already in the United States are weighing their options and trying to plan rationally in an unpredictable and fluid situation.
Many scientists in the U.S. are on student or other working visas. All these visas may not be renewable, depending on future executive orders and regulations. The dilemma "simply ruins their future. It's a catastrophe," says a Yemeni biologist who is on a university faculty on an H-1B, a 3-year visa for professionals. For years, lawmakers in Washington have tried to reform abuses of visa regulations by companies using visas to bring workers to the U.S. to learn the ropes, and then send the trained workers to other countries where the job can be done cheaply. The H-1B system is contentious: on one side labor advocates want the exploitation of the H-1B system to stop supporting an outsourcing business model. On the other hand, tech companies like Google and Facebook say they can't get enough visas for top foreign talent, as the cap on the number of H-1Bs issued every year means that sometimes foreign graduates from top U.S. universities, places like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley, can't get one. The travel ban already has harmed the top universities in the U.S., stranding students, faculty and scholars abroad, and making foreign schools more attractive to some of the world's brightest students.
In papers filed in Brooklyn federal court, the schools (that include Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and several more) said that the order blocking travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries threatens their abilities to educate future leaders from every continent. They said the executive order has "serious and chilling implications" and that the ban "casts doubt on the prospect and value of studying and working here for everyone," the papers said. (Meredith Wadman, Richard Stone, Science)
Genetic Engineering
US Science Advisers Outline Path to Genetically Modified Babies
"Scientists should be permitted to modify human embryos destined for implantation in the womb to eliminate devastating genetic diseases such as sickle-cell anaemia or cystic fibrosis — once gene-editing techniques advance sufficiently for use in people and proper restrictions are in place. That's the conclusion of a 14 February report from the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine."
The report follows a 2015 National Academies summit between scientists, ethicists, legal experts and patient groups from around the world. At the time of the meeting, given the outstanding scientific, ethical and legal questions surrounding the issue, the organizers concluded that scientists shouldn't yet perform germline editing on embryos intended for establishing a pregnancy. However, the organizers also stated that altering human embryos for basic research was acceptable.
The latest iteration of this ongoing CRISPR debate moves the bar a little further. The report recommends restricting the technique to severe medical conditions for which no other treatment exists. Eric Lander, president of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, said, "It's a very careful, conservative position that's just a little bit beyond an absolute bar." In the report, the committee also called for international cooperation, strict regulatory and oversight framework, public input into decisions and long-term follow-ups of children who have edited genomes. The report adds that for now, genome editing should not be used for human enhancement, such as improving a person's intelligence or giving them super-strength.
The report drew immediate criticism from a California-based non-profit organization called the Center for Genetics and Society. "This report is a dramatic departure from the widespread global agreement that human germline modification should remain off limits," said Marcy Darnovsky, executive director of the center. "It acknowledges many of the widely recognized risks, including stigmatizing people with disabilities, exacerbating existing inequalities, and introducing new eugenic abuses. Strangely, there's no apparent connection between those dire risks and the recommendation to move ahead." (Sara Reardon, Nature)
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The importance of primate research and the responsibility it requires
By: Brian Russ, Ph.D.
A bill is currently circulating in the Australian Senate to ban the importation of primates into the country for the purpose of research. If enacted into law, it would effectively limit all non-human primate research within the country to that which is currently occurring. At this time, there are three breeding facilities for primates within Australia. The majority of these colonies contain macaque monkeys, the primary primate used in biomedical research. If this bill were to pass, those colonies would not be able to bring in new animals, which in turn would restrict medical advances, as the colonies are the primary suppliers for the all biomedical research on primates in the country. Interestingly, this bill targets a very small number of cases – the Senator who proposed the bill states that between 2000 and 2015 fewer than 800 primates were imported into the country. More likely, the goal of this bill is to push Australia towards the complete cessation of biomedical research on primates. The bill is supported by the Australian organization Humane Research, which advocates for the ban of most animal research within Australia, particularly primate research.
Scientists and advocacy groups in Australia are concerned that this bill will negatively impact biomedical research within the country. Dr. James Bourne, a biomedical researcher and member of the research committee in the Australian government's National Health & Medical Research Council, recently testified in a Senate committee hearing to express the importance of animal research in Australia and how the ban would detrimentally impact Australia's biomedical research as a whole. He pointed to the recent outbreak of the Zika virus, to demonstrate how primate research will be critical in developing a vaccine for it and any similar future viral outbreaks. A number of international advocacy groups have also spoken out against this bill declaring that its passing would be a stranglehold on biomedical research within the country. The advocacy group Speaking of Research, which is based in the United States but operates internationally, recently published an open letter to the Australian Senate from a number of biomedical researchers in Australia detailing how primate research has been critical to helping the people of Australia, and how this ban would drastically reduce their effectiveness in the future. The letter explains how biomedical research on primates directly led to the eradication of Polio in Australia (and throughout most of the world), helped to alleviate the symptoms of Parkinson's disease through the creation of Deep Brain Stimulation, and was critical in the creation of most vaccines used today. While all of these are of great benefit to the word, they only begin to scratch the surface of how biomedical research on animal models benefits the world's health.
In addition to the discussing the benefits that animal research has provided the world, the letter also points out that animal importation and research is already strictly regulated, for the better. Throughout the world, ethics committees must approve research before it is allowed to begin on any animals, and if a suitable non-animal alternative exists that should be used instead. In the United States, all animal research must be approved by an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), which is run at local institutions and organized by the independent group the American Association for Laboratory Animal Sciences (AALAS). Additionally, institutes are also overseen and accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) International. Institutions that work with AALAS and AAALAC allow these organizations to ensure institutional compliance with law and regulations dealing with the care and treatment of animals at the institutions. The majority of animal researchers welcome having such third party oversight to ensure that the public sees that biomedical researchers take the treatment of animals very seriously. AALAS and AAALAC investigations revolve around what are termed the "Three Rs": Reduce, Refine, and Replace. That is, Reduce the number of animals needed in biomedical research through better techniques and practices, Refine the processes to minimize distress and any associated pain, and Replace animal models with alternatives when feasible. Organizations like Speaking of Research, the Foundation for Biomedical Research, the National Association for Biomedical Research, along with many others, push for not only better funding and understanding of animal research, but also for the responsible and humane use of animals in said research. Researchers therefore embrace the Three Rs and actively look for ways to encourage researchers to Reduce, Refine, and Replace.
Advocacy groups that seek to ban animal research often attack animal research by suggesting that researchers are not appropriately aiming to replace animals with other alternatives. For instance, Australia's Humane Research group has a webpage and videos demonstrating that numerous alternatives to animal research are available. Groups that advocate for the use of animal research, however, disagree that we are at a stage in biomedical research were we could truly stop using animals. Advances in biomedical research are constantly evolving, and there may be a day in the future where the use of animals in research is no longer necessary in expanding our understanding of the world and improving the health of the populous; however, they state that we are not currently there.
One such recent advance that will help to Reduce, Refine, and in some cases, Replace animal research is the development of what is being called the mini-brain. While still in the early stages of development, these bundles of human neurons can mimic the functions and structures of parts of the human brain. These "brains" are grown by inducing stem-cells to grow into a particular class of brain cells through a form of genetic programming. This breakthrough could be of huge benefit to the biomedical community as it may allow for the testing of drugs directly on human neurological tissue. Advocacy groups looking to ban animal research and replace it with non-animal alternatives will likely point to these findings as more evidence that animals are no longer necessary for biomedical research. However, one must remember that the creation of these mini-brains would not have been possible without years of research into how stem cells operate, research that was conducted with animals. Additionally, while this research may be useful for drug development, mini-brains do not have the capacity for actual perception or behavior, meaning that tests on the effects of drugs will still require some animal testing to ensure their efficacy and safety.
As research continues to progress it may someday be possible to eliminate the need for animals in biomedical research. Currently, the state of biomedical research necessitates the use of animals, and banning of such research, or even restricting the importation of primates, could severely hinder the advance of cures and vaccines for many serious illnesses. Nevertheless, it is important that the scientist and the public continue to police animal research to ensure that all animals are treated ethically and every attempt is made to practice the Three Rs.
Science Policy Around the Web – November 20, 2015
By: Eric Cheng, Ph.D.
Animal Research
NIH to end all support for chimpanzee research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to retire the last colony of government-owned chimpanzees being held for biomedical research. In a memo leaked this week, NIH Director Francis Collins wrote to NIH administrators: "there is no further justification for the 50 chimpanzees to continue to be kept available for invasive biomedical research." This would effectively end the federal agency's chimpanzee research program.
In an interview with Nature, Collins said that, "this is the natural next step of what has been a very thoughtful five-year process of trying to come to terms with the benefits and risks of trying to perform research with these very special animals. We reached a point where in that five years the need for research has essentially shrunk to zero."
Collins initially placed a temporary moratorium on new studies using chimpanzees in 2011 after an internal research panel questioned their use in medical research. This decision led NIH to only use chimpanzees for studies of hepatitis and psychological behaviors. In 2013, NIH retired 310 chimpanzees based on recommendations from the US Institute of Medicine (now the US Academy of Medicine) while still maintaining a colony of 50 animals that could only be used in cases where the research meets a necessary criterion such as public-health emergencies.
The remaining chimpanzees owned by NIH will be relocated to a federally-funded chimpanzee sanctuary called Chimp Haven located in Keithville, Louisiana. Chimp Haven is a facility that contains over 200-acres of forest which offers an environment that stimulates behaviors similar to those in the wild. (Jocelyn Kaiser, ScienceInsider)
Food Policy
FDA Rolls Out New Food Safety Regulation
In order to combat foodborne-related illnesses that sicken millions of Americans each year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released new regulations for both produced and imported foods. These new regulations will allow the FDA to enforce food safety by making food producers and importers accountable for making certain that their products meet US safety standards.
"This is the first time the food importers have fallen directly under FDA regulation," agency's deputy commissioner for food and veterinary medicine Michael R. Taylor said.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die from foodborne illnesses each year. These new FDA rules should help produce farmers and food importers take steps to prevent problems before they occur such as the outbreak of Salmonella Poona linked to Mexican cucumbers in October of this year which sickened 767 people with 4 reported deaths.
These new policies will cover requirements for growing, harvesting, and packing. They will even consist of standards for water quality, manure use, and employee health and hygiene. Taylor said he is confident that the new rules will improve food safety, but said success is contingent on full funding of President Barack Obama's 2016 budget request. (Charissa Echavez, The Science Times)
Science and Society
Space mining bill passes in Congress
Introduced by Rep. Kevin McCarthy [R-CA], the bill entitled "An Act to facilitate a pro-growth environment for the developing commercial space industry by encouraging private sector investment and creating more stable and predictable regulatory conditions, and for other purposes." This bill will allow companies to legally own and sell the resources they extract from objects from space such as asteroids. The selling of these mined resources by private companies is not explicitly denied by the Outer Space Treaty which declared that "outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means." Since these companies are regulated under US law, the law could potentially be interpreted as saying the mined celestial bodies are indeed US property.
Of course, additional language is in the bill stating that these claims are not declarations of sovereignty.
'It is the sense of Congress that by the enactment of this Act, the United States does not thereby assert sovereignty or sovereign or exclusive rights or jurisdiction over, or the ownership of, any celestial body.'
However, not all countries will see this viewpoint in the same way. The bill also does not address how these shared resources will be allocated with other countries that may also mine the same celestial body. Although the bill is already spurring international debate, real scrutiny of this bill will not come until the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space's annual meeting in April 2016 in Vienna.
This bill already has been passed by the Senate and will be sent to the Oval Office where President Obama is expected to sign it into law. (Sarah Fecht, Popular Science)
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Science Policy Around the Web – October 31, 2015
By: Courtney Pinard, Ph.D.
How Prevalent is Scientific Bias?
Scientists and clinicians conducting clinical trials must abide by rigorous standards to safeguard against biases. Biomedical animal research has not been held to the same standards, and advocates of robust science have argued that this lack of scientific rigor is why more than half of pre-clinical studies are irreproducible. A recent study published at the University of Edinburgh in the U.K. shows that animal researchers are not using the same standards to prevent bias in study design. Such standards include 1) using randomized trials to prevent scientists from, for example, assigning unhealthy animals to the control group to boost a drug's effect on the treatment group; 2) ensuring that researchers are blinded when accessing outcomes of an experiment; 3) calculating the correct sample size before starting an experiment; and 4) disclosing any conflicts of interest. The authors of the study examined 2500 papers published between 1992 and 2011 on drug efficacy, and the results were dismal. Only 30% of papers analyzed outcome in a blinded manner, 25% stated randomizing animals to groups, 12% included a conflict of interest statement, and less than 1% of papers reported calculating the needed sample size in advance. When the authors looked at whether institute quality or journal impact factor predicted bias, they found no correlation. The U.K. study is one out of many studies on the topic of scientific rigor that have resulted in growing concern from scientists and the public about irreproducible results in pre-clinical biomedical research.
According to an NIH commentary published last year, the reasons for why scientific bias in animal research is so prevalent are complex and have to do with the attitudes of funding agencies, academic centers, and scientific publishers. Authors of the commentary, Francis Collins and Lawrence Tabak, discuss these attitudes: "Funding agencies often uncritically encourage the overvaluation of research published in high-profile journals. Some academic [centers] also provide incentives for publications in such journals, including promotion and tenure, and in extreme circumstances, cash rewards."
Given the continuing budget restraints, and Congress' awareness about the reproducibility problem, national funding agencies have started to act. The NIH, for example, organized a workshop with over 30 basic/preclinical science journal editors to put together principles and guidelines to enhance research rigor and reproducibility. One such principle is "Transparency in Reporting", and includes the bias safeguarding standards described above. Strengthening pre-clinical biomedical research will only occur when scientists and policy makers at funding agencies, academic institutions, and journals work together to put these principles into practice, and acknowledge that the "publish or perish" attitude rampant in the scientific culture needs to change. The situation and solution was described succinctly in a recent Nature Editorial on cognitive bias: "Finding the best ways to keep scientists from fooling themselves has so far been mainly an art form and an ideal. The time has come to make it a science." (Martin Enserink, ScienceInsider)
Big Data
Proposed Study to Track 10,000 New Yorkers
A new proposed longitudinal study will attempt to monitor thousands of households in New York City over the span of decades. Information will be gathered in intimate detail about how people in these households lead their lives, including information about diet, exercise, social activities and interactions, purchases, education, health measures, and genetics. This ambitious project is called the Kavli Human Understanding through Measurement and Analysis (HUMAN) project, and aims to quantify the human condition using rigorous science and big data approaches to understand what makes us well and what makes us ill. According to project leaders, existing large-scale data sets have only provided detailed catalogs of narrow aspects of human health and behavior, such as cardiovascular health, financial decision-making, or genetic sequencing. By measuring the feedback mechanisms between biology, behavior, and our environment over decades, researchers believe that that much more will be understood about how these factors interact to determine human health over the life cycle. For example, according to articles written by scientists in support of the project, the new data could measure the impact of cognitive decline on performing activities of daily living, on family members and caregivers, and on healthcare utilization or end-of-life decisions. A further goal of the project is to provide data to policy makers in order for them to develop evidenced-based public policies.
Anticipating privacy and cybersecurity concerns inherent in such an invasive study, Kavli HUMAN project researchers have established a Privacy & Security Advisory Council, comprised of members in the private, public, and academic sector. The Advisory Council includes bioethicists and patient privacy advocates. In addition to establishing the Advisory Council, project leaders conducted an opinion survey of diverse group of Americans asking whether they 1) think the study should be done, and 2) if they would be willing to participate. The results of the survey suggested that nearly 80% think that the study should be done and more than half were willing to participate. When questions arise about the ethics of collecting such information, Kavli HUMAN project researchers publicly argue that corporations already track Americans' spending habits, location, and use of technology, and that "people's data can be better used to serve them, their communities, and society." (ScienceInsider, Kelly Servick)
Nutrition and Cancer
A Diet High in Red Meat and Processed Meat Increases Risk for Colorectal Cancer
The World Health Organization International Agency for Research (IARC) announced on Monday that eating too many processed meats are cancer-causing and eating too much red meat is "probably carcinogenic to humans." Red meat is defined as all types of mammalian muscle meat, such as "beef, veal, pork, lamb, mutton, horse, and goat," and processed meat is defined as meat that "has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes to enhance flavor or improve preservation." The IARC reviewed 800 studies that looked at the association of cancer with consumption of red or processed meat in people around the world, of diverse ethnicities and diets. Results of this analysis revealed that the positive association between red and processed meat consumption and cancer was strongest for colorectal cancer. The Global Burden of Disease Project, an independent academic research organization, estimates that 34,000 cancer deaths per year worldwide are attributable to diets high in processed meat. Studies show that meat processing techniques and cooking this kind of meat at high temperatures can lead to the formation of carcinogenic chemicals, and that these compounds appear in parts of the digestive tract. Specifically, the agency said its experts concluded that each 50 gram portion of processed meat eaten daily increased the risk of colorectal cancer by 18 percent. Red meat was not as strongly associated with cancer as processed meat. Some public health experts criticized the bravado of the IARC announcement. In response to public inquiries, they have published a FAQ page where they state that smoking and asbestos are more likely to be causal for lung and other types of cancers. The announcement did not mark a new discovery, since the original report has been out for several years; it was meant to attract public attention and help countries looking to WHO for health advice. According to the director of IARC, "these findings further support current public-health recommendations to limit intake of meat." (NPR; Anahad O'Connor, New York Times)
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Science Policy Around the Web – August 14, 2015
By: Patricia Kiesler, Ph.D.
Laboratory Animal Rights
Animal advocacy group targets cat and dog research using novel crowdsourcing campaign
The Los Angeles–based Beagle Freedom Project (BFP) animal advocacy group filed a complaint on Monday with Ohio State University (OSU) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) alleging that a NIH-funded OSU laboratory has violated NIH rules concerning the use of dogs in biomedical research. In the past, U.S. research facilities would procure dogs from Class B dealers, who would sell animals that they obtained from pounds, breeders and "random sources". The latter are associated with stolen and abused pets. In 2013, the NIH announced that researchers using the agency's funds could not procure dogs from Class B dealers, as of October 1, 2014, and could not use such dogs in projects funded in 2015 and beyond. According to BFP, OSU has violated both guidelines. In their complaint, BFP provided records suggesting that the university obtained four class B dogs on October 6, 2014, and that one of the class B dogs was still alive as late as July of 2015. OSU has disputed both accusations and provided evidence to ScienceInsider indicating that the dogs were purchased before the NIH rule went into effect, on September 11, 2014, and said that no class B dogs are currently involved in laboratory research.
BFP has gathered this evidence against OSU through a unique crowdsourcing technique. Public supporters browse the BFP's website and its list of more than 1200 cats and dogs kept at 17 public research universities in the U.S. and "adopt" one of these animals. BFP then sends supporters a Freedom of Information Act request form, which they fill out and send to the university housing the animal. Any information collected (health records, protocols, necropsy reports, etc.) is forwarded to BFP. Through this strategy, the animal advocacy group has generated hundreds of public records requests to engage the public and pressure universities to release animals and/or end their research. (David Grimm, ScienceInsider)
Scientific publishing policy
Courts refuse scientists' bids to prevent retractions
Two scientists have sought to prevent journals from retracting or expressing concern about their papers this year. But U.S courts have dismissed their legal bids. Guangwen Tang from Tufts University in Boston, MA had hoped to stop the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition from retracting her 2012 paper on the value of providing Golden Rice to children. This rice is a genetically engineered form of rice that is rich in b-carotene for use as a source of vitamin A. Following Tufts University 's discovery that parents had not been informed that the rice provided to their children was genetically modified, the journal decided to retract her paper and did so after the court's ruling. Mario Saad from the University of Campinas in Sao Paulo, Brazil had also hoped to prevent the journal of Diabetes from publishing expressions of concern about four of his papers. The journal said online that it had been alerted to potentially manipulated images in his studies and that was concerned about the reliability of some of his data. The first investigation launched by the University of Campinas found mistakes, but no dishonesty, in Saad's work and the conclusions of a second investigation have yet to be released. The court, however, swiftly denied his injunction bid and a request to reconsider thereafter. As a result, Diabetes published print concerns regarding all four of his papers.
"In both cases, the courts decided that the scientists' requests would deny journals their right to free speech. The decisions do not prevent the scientists from suing for damages from defamation, however, and legal action is ongoing in both instances". But a scientist suing a journal to stop retractions is unheard of and researchers may find it difficult to win defamation cases against publishers in the U.S. as defamation charges have a high burden of proof in this country; "plaintiffs [would] have to show that publishers acted with malice or reckless disregard". (Monya Baker, Nature News)
International – Children's health
Mexico bans giveaways of baby formula at hospitals in an effort to encourage breastfeeding
Mexico has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Latin America with only one in seven mothers breastfeeding exclusively during their babies' first six months. This poor record is amplified in a country where millions live in extreme poverty and drinking water is often unhealthy. In an effort to increase breastfeeding rates, the Mexican government has banned free baby formula at hospitals. But Mexican health authorities said that baby formula could still be supplied at a doctor's request and would be available for purchase. Mexico's measure follows the World Health Organization's recommendations that exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life and continued breastfeeding for up to two years or beyond supplemented with complementary foods provide health benefits to babies that translate into adulthood. These recommendations have recently been supported by a long-term study in Brazil that involved nearly 3,500 babies who were followed up 30 years later. The research, published in The Lancet Global Health last April, found that those who had been breastfed the longer scored higher on intelligence tests as adults. They were also more likely to reach higher educational attainment and to earn greater incomes. Although breastfeeding was evenly distributed across social class and the researchers tried to rule out main confounders including mother's education, family income and birth weight, experts agreed that further research was needed to explore any possible link between breastfeeding and intelligence. The large sample size and number of factors monitored, however, made this a powerful study. (BBC News)
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Science Policy Around the Web – June 26, 2015
By: Amy Kullas, Ph.D.
Public Health Policy: Organ donation
State policies have had little success on increasing organ donation
There is an extreme shortage of transplantable solid organs in the United States, which poses a considerable public health challenge. Presently, an estimated 125,000 patients require an organ transplant and of these patients, almost 80,000 remain on active waitlists for these organs nationally. Unfortunately more than 6,000 of these patients are expected to die this year while waiting for a transplant.
Since 2010, all states and the District of Columbia have implemented at least two donation-related policies. These policies varied from dedicated funds for donor recruitment activities to paid leave after donation to tax incentives. Unfortunately, many of these polices (with the exception of revenue policies) have had "no robust, significant association with either donation rates or number of transplants." The revenue policies have people donate to a "protected state fund" which is used to fund activities to promote organ donation. These policies correlated with a modest "5.3% in the absolute number of transplants." This brings up an interesting question and proposition: should individuals be financially compensated for donating an organ?(Chatterjee, et al, JAMA Internal Medicine)
Humans, Climate Change and Animal Extinction
The sixth mass extinction is among us. Is there anything left to do?
"[The study] shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event," said Paul Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies in biology and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Ehrlich and his co-authors warn that this "extinction threatens humanity's existence" and that soon we will pass the point-of-no-return. Ehrlich further says, "There are examples of species all over the world that are essentially the walking dead." The overall consensus among scientists that the current extinctions rates have reached levels that have not been encountered since the dinosaurs' downfall, approximately 65 million years ago.
As the human population continues to increase at an almost exponential rate, the laundry list of how humans are brutalizing Mother Earth is also increasing. Some of which include:
- Clearing the land for farming, then clearing the farmland for housing, etc.
- Introduction of invasive species
- Record high carbon emissions driving global warming and ocean acidification
- Toxins that leach into water supplies and can poison fragile bionetworks
But is there anything left for humanity to do? It is a complex 'yes.' The authors write, "Avoiding a true sixth mass extinction will require rapid, greatly intensified efforts to conserve already threatened species, and to alleviate pressures on their populations — notably habitat loss, over-exploitation for economic gain and climate change." (Rob Jordan, Stanford Report)
Animal Rights and Biomedical Research
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Flash News: Hautlence HL-RS 01 Honeycomb
By Thierry Ané on February 11, 2015
This is a very short article to inform the readers of Watch Agora of the release of a new HL-RS model by Hautlence.
With its TV-shaped 46 x 42 mm case and the presence of jumping hours paired with retrograde minutes, the HR-LS line gathered all the design and technical codes that have made the success of this Swiss luxury brand.
To be exact, an important marker of Hautlence's DNA, the use of a honeycomb dial, was not present on all versions. Indeed, whereas the HL-RS 03 paired it with orange numerals and hands, the openwork dial of the HL-RS 01 and HL-RS 02 versions used a silver opaline base respectively with gold or blue accents.
The new HL-RS 01 Honeycomb is therefore similar to the HL-RS 01 unveiled in 2012 but with the black honeycomb grid to please the aficionados of the brand. For the rest, nothing has changed: from the manually-wound in-house movement to the multi-layered case combining black DLC-coated steel for the bezel and back with sand-blasted finish with a bead-blasted grade 2 titanium middle and 18-karat 4N gold screws and crown.
This new model mounted on black rubber strap with a titanium folding buckle with pink gold plate will retail for CHF 32,000. The HL-RS 01 Honeycomb is undoubtedly a very nice timepiece but I would have liked to see more changes compared to the HL-RS 01 version…
For more information please visit the Hautlence web site.


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Picture: Tenacious D's Kyle Gass performing with The Chelsea Girls at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood Los Angeles, California - 07.05.09
"That sent us into a bit of a spiral. Before then, everything we touched turned to gold. So we had to take some time off to re-evaluate." Tenacious D star Kyle Gass on the need for the band's hiatus following the release of flop film The Pick of Destiny.


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Stanton uses fundamentals to fuel rocket arm
Stanton uses fundamentals to fuel rocket arm
Manager Edwin Rodriguez says think instead of one of the most fundamentally sound players around.
"He's the whole package," Rodriguez said.
Stanton, who doesn't turn 21 until Nov. 8, picked up his eighth and ninth assists of the season on Friday, with the most impressive of the two coming in the third inning, when he nailed the Brewers' Corey Hart trying to go from first to third on Ryan Braun's single. Stanton's one-hop strike to third baseman Chad Tracy easily nailed Hart. Later in the eighth, Stanton alertly threw out Rickie Weeks at first base after catching a fly ball, when Weeks lost track of the outs in the inning.
That performance only enhanced Stanton's reputation among the Brewers, who found out first hand how dangerous it is to run on him. That showed up in the seventh inning on Saturday, when Brewers third-base coach Brad Fischer threw up the stop sign for Prince Fielder on Craig Counsell's single to right with two outs and the Brewers trailing 2-0. Fielder, not exactly quick on the bases, was on second and heading to third when Stanton fielded Counsell's hit and uncorked a throw just a few feet up the third-base line to home plate. Fielder would have been an easy out if he had tried to score.
"I'm not sure he's a speed burner," Marlins pitcher Chris Volstad said, "but Stanton's got a great arm."
It was the throw that caught Hart that captured Rodriguez's attention. It was the perfect illustration of how an outfielder can charge a ball and come up throwing without any wasted movement. Rodriguez says when you do that, you don't have to have the reputation of a rifleman to be effective.
"He's not only showing accuracy," Rodriguez said, "but he's also showing that he knows where he should be throwing. I didn't think he had a chance [on the Hart play], and it wasn't even close."
Stanton, who joined the Marlins on June 2, is two behind National League-leader Francoeur, who had 11 assists with the New York Mets before moving to Texas earlier this month. Cleveland outfielder Shin-Soo Choo leads the Major Leagues with 13 assists.


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Father Takes Stand In Sex Abuse Trial Of Lakewood Yeshiva Teacher
By Kathleen Hopkins (Asbury Park Press)
May 10, 2013
The father of a former Lakewood boy who accused his camp counselor of sexual abuse wanted to handle the matter discreetly, within the Orthodox Jewish religious community, he testified in court on Thursday.
The man, formerly a prominent rabbi in Lakewood's Orthodox community, said he just wanted to be sure the counselor, Yosef Kolko, quit working with children, sought therapy and stayed away from his son, the man told a jury.
But when months had already passed after he had brought the matter to the attention of a respected rabbi who promised to handle it discreetly, and learning that Kolko was still working at the summer camp where his son was molested, the father said he broke with Jewish tradition and sought justice with secular authorities.
The breaking point was when he confronted Kolko months after first learning of the abuse and demanding that he quit his jobs, at Yachad, the summer camp run by the Yeshiva Bais Hatorah School on Swarthmore Avenue in Lakewood, and at Yeshiva Orchos Chaim in Lakewood, where he was a teacher, the father testified.
Kolko told him he was thinking of leaving the Yachad, but only to get a job as a counselor at a sleep-away camp, the father testified. Then he told the boy's father not to contact him anymore, the man told the jury.
"I said, "A sleep-away camp! What are you nuts?'' the man testified.
Soon afterward, the man went with his wife and son to the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office to report the molestation, but only after the owner of the summer camp told him to be patient, "to give him (Kolko) another chance to get back on board," the father testified.
"Going to law enforcement is not at this time common within the Orthodox Jewish community," the father explained to the jury. "Even when it's necessary, it's considered unusual. People who might believe that the alleged molester is innocent would give the person going to law enforcement a very hard time.''
The testimony came during the second day of Kolko's trial before Superior Court Judge Francis R. Hodgson.
The Asbury Park Press is not identifying the father to protect the identity of the victim, now 16.
Kolko, 39, of Geffen Drive, Lakewood is accused of sexually abusing the boy in 2008 and 2009, when the child was 11 and 12.
As reluctant as the boy's father was to go to law-enforcement with the child-abuse allegations, so was his son to expose his counselor, whom he had considered his best friend, the father testified.
The boy made the revelation to his father when the father picked him up from a session with a school therapist in February of 2009, he said.
"He said that his counselor, Yosef Kolko, sexually abused him," the father testified of his conversation with his son that day.
"What was his demeanor?" asked Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Laura Pierro.
"He really didn't want to disclose it,'' the father replied. "There was a big sense of loyalty."
After making the disclosure to his father, ""He asked me not to tell anyone, and I told him I couldn't do that," the father testified.
The next morning, the father called Kolko and arranged to meet with him on a Lakewood street, he said. He brought along a digital recorder that he kept in the pocket of his overcoat to tape his conversation with Kolko.
The father said Kolko was "nervous and contrit" when he confronted him about molesting his son.
"I told him (my son) informed me of abuse and molestation, and he asked me what I wanted to do about it," the father testified.
The father responded that he wanted to take the matter to a group of rabbis who deal with such issues. Kolko agreed to go with him that day to see one of the rabbis, Shmuel Blech, the father said.
"I told him, if he was compliant, it would most probably not be publicized," the father testified. "I told him I wanted (him to have) absolutely no more contact with my son. I said, it's obvious he has to give up his job with the school and the camp."
The father testified he never would have gone to the police if Kolko had complied with his wishes., He said he had reassured Kolko, "If you deal with it correctly, everything will be alright."
Defense attorney Michael F. Bachner suggested that the father may have purposely decided not to record portions of his conversation with Kolko, or that portions of the conversation may have been erased. But the father insisted that Kolko never denied the accusations.
He said he even gave Kolko an opportunity to deny the allegations before going to talk to Blech.
"I told him, if that's what he wanted, he could speak to me," the father told the jury. "He said, 'Then there's nothing to say."'
When the father told Blech about the accusations, Kolko ""was closed to tears,'' he testified. "He was embarrassed and remorseful.''
The father learned months later that Kolko wasn't going to therapy, he testified.
"I was more concerned that he was still at his job, and I felt that children were in danger,'' he testified.
He went to the prosecutor's office with the allegations in July of 2009.
Earlier at the trial on Thursday, the boy's school therapist testified he told her that Kolko was his best friend, but she encouraged him to make friends his own age.
"Nobody else will ever understand me,'" Tzipora Koslowitz testified the boy had told her.
He later told her he had a secret to reveal, and she encouraged him to tell the secret to his father, she said.
The trial is scheduled to resume at 9 a.m. Monday.


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Using the recipe in the above link, spray your cupcake tins with cooking spray for easy release.
Line each tin with pie dough, fill and bake at 350 degrees until the middle is set around 35 minutes.
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Culture wars are about destroying a country by destroying its culture, its identity, its history and sense of shared worth. It is being done to us deliberately, slowly, insidiously and maliciously by post Marxists with an agenda; the destruction of civilization. What do they think will replace it? I do not know. Do they? Perhaps they are just Useful Idiots driven by hatred, envy and Western Guilt. Marxists believed what Karl Marx had to say and sent over 85 million people to their deaths. Post Marxists are followers of Antonio Gramsci, the chief theoretician of the communist party who decided that it would be easier to destroy civilization from the top down rather than Marx's way from the bottom up. This means infiltrating all of country's institutions, especially Education and the Media. This is thought control for real; they call it the Long March Through The Institutions. Marxist propaganda was crude. The post Marxist version is more subtle and far more dangerous as a result.
The media attack is wide ranging. It is operating throughout Christendom and involves three main fronts news and entertainment & language because Words are Propaganda Tools. It has an advantage for us. We can do something about it. Read down for more.
Aboriginal Culture
Doctor Kelly explains why culture matters and how Western culture & Abo culture are being destroyed.
Cultural Relativism
Is the proposition that no culture is better, only different. So Aboriginals living off the land are just as good as the people who created Western Civilization. Believe it if you want. I do not.
Culture ex Wiki
Culture, in sociology means the beliefs of a people. The Wiki takes much longer to tell us something of the sort. Modern culture is largely created in Hollywood, the media generally and the education industry. This means we can be manipulated by malign forces. We are being manipulated.
Cultural Genocide
Means destroying a culture by taking over its institutions especially the Main Stream Media. & Education industry. They suppress history and feed people a corrupt version. It also means flooding a place with foreign undesirables; anything to destroy unity.
Cultural Revolution Culture War
Doctor Gabb explains all. Those foul left wing philosophers [ that is what they would call themselves ] are dangerous and effective. Know thine enemy. His book is at Download free pdf file.
Cultural Pessimism ex Wiki
Cultural pessimism arises with the conviction that the culture of a nation, a civilization, or humanity itself is in a process of irreversible decline. It is a variety of pessimism formulated by a cultural critic........
Cultural pessimism of the Oswald Spengler epoch might be seen as a refusal, of the rather intellectual and secular choice between Nihilism and modernism. Politically this tended to squeeze liberal thought.
Specific criticism of the West [ i.e. Western Civilization ], in the first years of the twentieth century, is usually taken as of the Old World of Europe, excluding therefore North America in particular.
Culture War
Is being waged against by our self appointed Invisible Enemy. His objective is world domination achieved through Cultural Genocide
Cultural relativism ex Wiki
Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture. This principle was established as axiomatic in anthropological research by Franz Boas in the first few decades of the 20th century and later popularized by his students. Boas first articulated the idea in 1887: "...civilization is not something absolute, but ... is relative, and ... our ideas and conceptions are true only so far as our civilization goes." but did not actually coin the term "cultural relativism."
This idea is a bit of obscurantist drivel marketed very successfully to Useful Idiots. Culture is the system of beliefs in a nation or tribe. It can be studied, understood and compared with others. The relativism is a claim that no culture is better or worse, merely different. Franz Boas, the originator was a Jew from Germany albeit he had real brains; his doctorate was in physics. The Wiki does not quite say that he became a social activist with a view to destroying civilization but then the Wiki was set up by Jews.
Words as Propaganda Tools
The post Marxist disciples of Antonio Gramsci have taken control of English. Homosexuals are now gays and pushed at every opportunity. The BBC are very enthusiastic about this one. It is for their own private interests. They have an especial loathing of racism if they are accusing Englishmen. Blacks get a pass on this one no matter what.
Individual news items can be reported fairly accurately and honestly. Suppressing matters that they don't want us to know about can always be excused. National news cannot cover everything. The agenda is there and working flat out against us.
This is the most insidious part of media subversion. The Archers were every day country folk. Not any more. The BBC line would be that they are part of a vibrant, multicultural Britain. The BBC is a propaganda machine waging war, a Culture War on England. They are Cultural imperialists.
Charlton Heston Speaks - Winning The Cultural War
Charlton Heston is an American actor who came in for big roles. But he was more. He flew from England as a gunner during the war years when flying was not so safe as it is now. He speaks and he speaks well.
Christmas Under Attack
Perhaps you have noticed that there are people who talk about Happy Holidays. There are others who push Hanukah and the entirely fraudulent Kwanza. Could there be reasons, an agenda? It certainly looks like it.
This web site owes its origin to Sean Gabb, the leading theoretician of the right in England and a libertarian. You can find him at www.seangabb.co.uk. You can find his writing at Free Life. Here is a sample.
The Ideology of the New Ruling Class
We have in this country a new ruling class. It is no longer the Monarchy and the network of land-owning and mercantile interests that clustered around it, or anything identifiable as the old—alleged—working class movement that competed with them. Instead, we are ruled by a coalition of politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, academics, media people, and businessmen who look to an enlarged state as the source of their income or status. When it came to power is hard to say with precision.
It had taken over the ideological state apparatus long before the 1997 general election that gave it formal political office; and that election result more intensified than redirected the course of events. Undoubtedly, though, it is now supreme.
The ideology this ruling class has taken up to produce internal unity and to justify itself before the ruled has nothing to do with the national past or the currently perceived interests of the majority. It is incidentally about regulating everything that moves in the interests of health and safety, and sometimes banning them, and incidentally about preventing alleged dangers to the environment, and incidentally about making us all into the subjects of a centralised European state. But these are only incidentals. They are not the core ideology. Though it has not entirely broken with the past, and though it may appeal to tradition as convenience requires, the new ruling class defines its basis of legitimacy lies in the proclaimed right and ability to bring about a transformation of the country into something entirely new. The old ethnic and cultural homogeneity are seen as evils. In their place, we are to have "a rich diversity of communities". Some of these are to be sexual, some religious. But the real passion is for ethnic diversity. To take one instance of this, in 1998, the Government set up a Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain. Its purpose was to analyse the current state of multi-ethnic Britain and propose ways of countering racial discrimination and disadvantage and making Britain a confident and vibrant multicultural society at ease with its rich diversity.3
Chaired by Bhikhu Parekh, an academic placed in the House of Lords by Tony Blair, the Commission was a sub-division of the Runnymede Trust, a formally private body "devoted to promoting racial justice in Britain". Its Report can be seen as a digested expression of the transformation intended for this country. Among the recommendations were a formal declaration by the State that Britain was now a "multicultural society", and a commitment that deep-rooted antagonisms to racial and cultural differences [should be] defeated in practice, as well as symbolically written out of the national story.4
3 Report of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic
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