Word: experimention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The experiment was brutally simple. Scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden took 23 rats and neatly severed their spinal cords, paralyzing their hind legs. Then they took some of the injured rats and set about trying to repair the damage, using microsurgery to build hair-thin "bridges" across the...
But would this bill, in fact, end welfare as we know it? The truth is, nobody knows, because nothing close to reform on this scale has ever been attempted. The current draft gives official sanction to a national laboratory experiment, under way in many states, that tests the degree to...
"Well, I heard they might compromise and plan for a long-term experiment to see what the effect would be on group health insurance."
Tensions between the two groups exploded last December, when People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals assailed an AIDS treatment that involved taking immune cells from a baboon and then killing it for autopsy. Since baboons don't seem to get AIDS, doctors at San Francisco General Hospital had hoped...
...effective. They decided to start by studying how a similar virus is transmitted from pregnant monkeys to their offspring. But animal-rights activists halted that experiment, saying it was redundant. The researchers may yet find their answer some other way. But most of them believe that working without animal experimentation is not an option...