Month: October 2020

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Where are the animals?

October 26, 2020

Over the last several years, NAVS has shared various issues pertaining to the lack of transparency surrounding animal experiments. This week, we’d like to focus on another of these issues:…

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U.S. Government Invests in Non-Animal “Tissue Chips”

October 19, 2020

Over the last several years, NAVS has shared exciting advances that are being made with tissue chips—three-dimensional bioengineered devices made from human cells designed to accurately mimic the function of…

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Animal “shortage” not a problem, but an opportunity for change

October 12, 2020

A few weeks ago, we shared with you our thoughts on recent media coverage indicating that the U.S. doesn’t have enough nonhuman primates to test COVID-19 treatments. In this week’s…

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Animals affected by COVID-19

October 5, 2020

The coronavirus continues to wreak global havoc. To date, the virus has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people in the United States, and more than one million people…