U.S. stops breeding chimps for research
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The U.S. National Institutes of  Health, which supports a variety of biomedical studies using  animals, will stop breeding government-owned chimpanzees for  research -- a step animal rights advocates lauded on Thursday.
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Immunising male monkeys with a protein found in the testes made them infertile, researchers find.
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The two soft drink giants agreed to stop financing animal experiments, except where such testing is required by law.
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Clinical trials of a new microbicide gel designed to help prevent women contracting HIV are stopped.
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The British military said Wednesday it will no longer use goats in experiments to gauge the risks of evacuating a submerged submarine.
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A study aimed at determining if some children with sickle cell anemia could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy has been halted because two young patients who stopped getting the procedure suffered strokes and others developed a high chance of strokes.
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Human therapeutic cloning has moved a step closer after U.S. researchers said they had successfully created embryonic stem cells from monkey embryos.
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Dozens of chimpanzees from a Dutch laboratory face a housing crisis after plans for their early retirement on the Spanish coast collapsed because of residents' fears they would carry infectious diseases.
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By KATHARINE WEBSTER     MANCHESTER, N.H.  -- A Nobel laureate in medicine says the Bush administration's limits on funding for embryonic stem cell research have stopped the clock on American scientists' efforts to develop treatments for a host of chronic, debilitating diseases...
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A U.S.-led campaign to ban all  cloning of human embryos, including for stem-cell research, was  rejected by a divided United Nations on Friday as a General  Assembly committee opted for a nonbinding declaration against  human cloning.
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All of the human embryonic stem cells available to federally funded scientists under President Bush&#39;s three-year-old research policy share a previously unrecognized trait that fosters rejection
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Despite a 1989 ban on the slaughter of elephants for their tusks, the illegal ivory trade is as brisk as ever. In an effort to step up efforts to protect elephants, researchers have been using genetic technology
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Coca-Cola Co.  will no longer fund or conduct animal experiments, animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said on Thursday.
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A controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales has been suspended, a top Japan official says.
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British scientists were backing Sunday a campaign to stop the United States from creating a worldwide ban on all types of human cloning.
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South Africa is to stop racially profiling blood donors after an outcry over the alleged rejection of blood from black donors because of the risk of HIV.
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A Nobel laureate in medicine said Monday the Bush administration's limits on funding for embryonic stem cell research effectively have stopped the clock on American scientists' efforts to develop treatments for a host of chronic, debilitating diseases.