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Traditionally, new vaccines are tested in mice, rabbits or, in the case of AIDS, monkeys. But animal testing is time-consuming, expensive, and controversial. The biggest bugaboo of all is translation. No matter how well an experimental vaccine works in animals, the leap to humans is riddled with uncertainty and unforeseeable complications. Last year's collapse of a late-stage AIDS vaccine trial involving thousands of volunteers is a case in point. The experimental vaccine used in the STEP study, co-sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the vaccine's creator, pharmaceutical giant Merck, looked promising in monkeys...
...Sadly, this cultural trend is also reflected in our nation’s laws. The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) explicitly exempts laboratory mice, rats, and birds from its definition of “animal,” and ignores farmed animals entirely, while state animal cruelty laws typically exempt “common agricultural practices...
...study in question, which was published in Nature in 2001, investigated the connection between the olfactory and nervous systems of mice, but is not a part of the work recognized by Buck’s Nobel Prize...
Leaving their soil microbes and frozen mice ears behind for a day, a dozen Harvard scientists headed for Washington D.C. yesterday to lobby Congress on the behalf of biomedical researchers across the nation...
...Giersch said she has been waiting for NIH funding for two years while the inner ears of the mice she already dissected remain unused in her freezer. Giersch just submitted another grant application last week...