Tens of millions of animals will be saved from use in chemical safety tests over the next eight years after Europe’s chemical regulator gave the go-ahead to a new streamlined study to assess the safety of substances. Read more
“Stay as far away from the camera as possible.” That’s the advice given to scientists involved in animal research by Ranga Yogeshwar, a TV presenter and former scientist, in this week’s issue of Nature. As part of a special focus on animal research, Yogeshwar goes head-to-head with Tipu Aziz and John Stein from John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK, on the contentious topic of whether scientists who conduct research using animal models should become public advocates for their research (see ‘Animal testing: TV or not TV?’). Read more