Richard J Miller
@rjm821.bsky.social
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Moral philosopher/belletrist/author-"the Rise and Fall of Animal Experimentation" and "Drugged".
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Richard J Miller
@rjm821.bsky.social
· Sep 21
A call to action to address critical flaws and bias in laboratory animal experiments and preclinical research - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A call to action to address critical flaws and bias in laboratory animal experiments and preclinical research
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Richard J Miller
@rjm821.bsky.social
· Sep 20
Shining a Light on Animal Use in Laboratories: Physicians Committee Hosts Congressional Briefing on the Federal Animal Research Accountability Act (H.R. 3295)
How many animals are used in taxpayer-funded experiments every year? The truth is, no one knows. Estimates range from 10 million to 110 million, but the federal government doesn’t collect accurate num...
www.pcrm.org
Richard J Miller
@rjm821.bsky.social
· Sep 12
Beyond animal models: how organoids could transform drug development
As regulators begin to push for a move away from animal testing, drug developers will need to assess alternatives. Patient-derived mini-organ platforms could help improve the predictive power of precl...
www.nature.com
Richard J Miller
@rjm821.bsky.social
· Sep 9
Science without animal suffering: Celebrating leaders working toward more humane research and testing
Last week at the World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Brazil, our Humane World for Animals team gathered with hundreds of scientists and policymakers to exchange insig...
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Richard J Miller
@rjm821.bsky.social
· Sep 5
Thymosin beta 4 as an Alzheimer disease intervention target identified using human brain organoids
In this article, Luo and colleagues show that TMSB4X, which is downregulated in fAD
organoid neurons and AD patients’ excitatory neurons, acts as a neuroprotective factor.
Treatment with Tβ4, the prod...
www.cell.com
Richard J Miller
@rjm821.bsky.social
· Sep 4
Psychedelic Researchers Respond to FDA’s Push to Reduce Animal Testing - Psychedelic Alpha
The FDA is pushing researchers to reduce their use of animal models and instead adopt ‘new approach methodologies’, like organoids and AI modelling. Here, Dr. Alaina Jaster speaks with psychedelic…
psychedelicalpha.com
Richard J Miller
@rjm821.bsky.social
· Aug 25
New Study Suggests Cats Develop Dementia in a Similar Way to Humans — Here’s Why That Matters
A new study from researchers at the University of Edinburgh shows that cats may develop dementia in a similar way to humans — which could potentially have a major impact on the way scientist study the...
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