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By Andrea Widburg Two of these tales (or do I mean tails?) will make you sad, but we’ll end on a lighter note.
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Republican lawmakers introduced a pair of bills this week cracking down on taxpayer-funded pet experimentation and the breeding of dogs and cats for laboratory testing. […] Source
Ping Ping and Fu Shuang are the latest additions to the cohort of furry ambassadors the Chinese have sent to the U.S. recently.
‘doling out more tax money to his friends’
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Steven Kolb, the two-decade leader of the fashion industry's most powerful trade group, stepped down Friday after footage showed him physically silencing animal-rights protesters at a New York runway event, a confrontation that cost him his career in under a week. Kolb, the chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, announced his […] The post CFDA chief Steven Kolb resigns after video captures him restraining PETA protesters at runway show appeared first on American Almanac .
Steven Kolb, the two-decade leader of the fashion industry's most powerful trade group, stepped down Friday after footage showed him physically silencing animal-rights protesters at a New York runway event, a confrontation that cost him his career in under a week. Kolb, the chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, announced his resignation days after he was filmed covering the mouths of two PETA employees and using his body to restrain them during a show for Cos, the H&M-owned brand. The incident unfolded on Sunday. By Friday, the man who had shaped American fashion's institutional identity for twenty years was out. The speed of his fall tells its own story. Kolb apologized earlier in the week, then took a leave of…Open
Stanford researchers placed millions of lab-grown human neurons into mice, creating a disease model that also raises hard questions about consciousness and animal rights. NPR reported that the team used mice missing most of their cerebral cortexes, then filled much of that space with human cortical neurons grown in a laboratory. The goal was to […] The post Researchers put human neurons into mice, raising new ethical questions appeared first on American Almanac .
Stanford researchers placed millions of lab-grown human neurons into mice, creating a disease model that also raises hard questions about consciousness and animal rights. NPR reported that the team used mice missing most of their cerebral cortexes, then filled much of that space with human cortical neurons grown in a laboratory. The goal was to study neurodegenerative disease and other brain conditions. But the researchers stopped when the human cells reached roughly six months of development, before possible signs of consciousness might emerge. Sergiu Pașca, a Stanford professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, served as the senior author. The team published its findings in the journal Nature. Pașca said scientists have spent two…Open
A video showed Steven Kolb using his arms and a leg to restrain a female PETA protester while covering her mouth with his hands.
Inadvertently killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would no longer be considered illegal under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act
A federal court has frozen the Bureau of Land Management's plan to remove hundreds of wild horses from a fire-scarred Oregon range just weeks before winter storms may close the roads. One of the groups that won that delay is under congressional investigation over claims that it turns taxpayer-reimbursed lawsuits into fundraising.
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.