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Animal Research News Roundup: February 21, 2025
Rise for Animals, February 21, 2025
Here are all this week's biggest stories in animal research in one convenient place.
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Stop Congress from Funding EVEN MORE Primate Research!
The Rise for Animals Tesm, February 19, 2025
The NIH is bent on investing more and more of our money in animal research. Congress still has time to reject this funding, but lawmakers need to hear from YOU.
Think
Proposed NIH Funding Change Creates Panic Among Vivisectors
The Rise for Animals Team, February 18, 2025
For much of the animal research industry, losing grant money could mean losing the financial incentive to keep the animal torture going.
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Animal Research News Roundup: February 14, 2025
The Rise for Animals Team, February 14, 2025
Here are all this week's biggest stories in animal research in one convenient place.
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Let’s Help Rep. Mace Hold Animal Researchers Accountable!
The Rise for Animals Team, February 12, 2025
By forcing transparency into the research industry’s exploitation of animals, we would both expose the industry’s true scale and take a giant step toward ending it.
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House Considers “Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies”
The Rise for Animals Team, February 11, 2025
On February 6, 2025, a House subcommittee hosted a hearing on “wasteful and cruel research conducted on animals and paid for by taxpayers".
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Animal Research News Roundup: February 7, 2025
The Rise for Animals Team, February 7, 2025
Here are all this week's biggest stories in animal research in one convenient place.
Species Spotlight
Species Spotlight: Tree Shrews
The Rise for Animals Team, February 6, 2025
These small mammals look like squirrels and "'true' shrews” — but they're neither! In fact, tree shrews are most closely related to primates.
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Dealing in Suffering: The Torture & Trade of Primates’ Kin
The Rise for Animals Team, February 6, 2025
Public records reveal that University of Alabama-Birmingham (“UAB”) researchers are destroying the eyes of tree shrews and leaving them to suffer in filthy cages.