"Universities are failing to take up the challenge of replacing
their animal experiments with non-animal techniques, whilst
industry has made significant strides forward, says an article
to be published in the September issue of the international
peer-reviewed journal BioEssays. Animal experiments conducted by
industry in Britain have fallen significantly over several
years, but those carried out by universities and medical schools
have risen by 52% in the last decade.So says the Dr Hadwen Trust
about its own article. Not sure why they think that industry
large scale toxicity testing has any repercussions for basic
scientific research, but what do I know? The article is authored
by eminent professors engaged in academic research in
immunology, infection and pain, as well as the Dr Hadwen Trust’s
Dr Gill Langley, one of the world’s leading authorities on non-
animal replacement techniques...Replacing animal experiments is
a well-established concept in industry, especially in the
pharmaceutical, chemical and cos