Speaking of Research

The day after Tom Holder spoke at the University of Pittsburgh about the importance of animal research, more news is coming from this academic institution.
Every 45 seconds someone in the US gets a stroke, many are left paralyzed, furthermore 14,000 people every year suffer spinal cord injuries which may also result in paralysis. There is [...]

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A diverse audience of approximately fifty researchers, animal care technicians and medical students, both undergraduates and postgraduates, attended the Speaking of Research presentation at Pittsburgh University. From “Science for the Non-scientist, a lesson in getting your message across” (summarized in our YouTube video), to “Pro-Test: the UK experience of the animal rights issue”, and finally [...]

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Huntington’s disease is an inherited neurological disease that affects about 30, 000 Americans and for which there is no effective treatment or cure.  An important step to developing new treatments was announced last week when scientists at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta published a paper (1) describing how they genetically modified monkeys [...]

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On Tuesday, May 27th 2008, Speaking of Research founder, Tom Holder, will be speaking at Pittsburgh University (Note to self: Pittsburgh does not rhyme with Edinburgh). The presentation will take place at: S100a, Biomedical Science Tower (map).
The order of the day is:
4:00 – 4:30 pm Introductions
4:30 – 5:30 pm Seminar
5:30 – 6:00 pm Questions
There’s even [...]

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The website has been undergoing some minor updates over the last few days.
We now have not one, but two web addresses. Both www.speakingofresearch.org and www.speakingofresearch.com will take you to this website. Equally all e-mail addresses should work in either the .org or .com form.
Check the (new) Calendar tab to see past and future presentations by [...]

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Newspapers in the UK are buzzing with excitement over news that a new vaccine against meningitis B developed by the Swiss pharmaceuticals firm Novartis has performed well in early clinical trials.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/15/health.medicalresearch
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/meningitis-defeated-at-last-828286.html
About 3,000 mostly young people catch meningitis B every year in the USA, of whom about 10% die and 25% suffer lifelong injuries, so an [...]

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After a successful day on the Duke University campus (see previous post), I headed over to the Smithies & Maeda’s Laboratories in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Here I gave a presentation to Nobel Prize Laureate (For his work in introducing gene modifications [...]

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I’ve been in North Carolina since Monday night, having already given a couple of talks at Duke University earlier today, and popped my head into an AALAS meeting. The reception has been warm at all events, with Duke going as far as to offer AALAS credits for any animal researchers, technicians and veterinarians who went [...]

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“The Animal Research War exposes the tactics of animal extremists for what they are ‐ terrorism. The actions of a tiny minority have seriously set back the progress of research aimed at reducing the suffering of people and animals. It is time for scientists, patients and all who abhor the use of terror to stand [...]

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For a long time, animal rights groups have taken advantage of new social media tools that exist on the web. Their presence dominates and clouds the issue of animal research, meaning that individuals looking for information on animal research, find themselves faced “Vivisection kills”, “Stop Torture”. Pro-Test broke the mold by being the first group [...]

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