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12 Mar 2010

Apply for humane research funding ( 1 October 2009 )

Draize rabbit eye test replacement milestone welcomed (21 September 2009 )

Mount Kilimanjaro challenge - 19,340 feet in 6 days (17 September 2009 )

Groups unite to sign animal-free testing Resolution at the 7th World Congress on Alternatives ( 8 September 2009 )

UK animal experiments at 22 year high, back to late 1980s levels. Science needs a ‘roadmap to replacement’ says Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research (22 July 2009 )

Ricky Gervais, Joanna Lumley and other stars join cyber march for humane science ( 8 July 2009 )

House of Lords EU Committee today told: EU needs new strategic vision to replace animals in scientific research ( 1 July 2009 )

Artificial microlungs on a chip (19 June 2009 )

Dr Hadwen Trust research heralds asthma breakthrough (18 June 2009 )

Animals experiments could end in a generation ( 5 June 2009 )

British Government launches public consultation on animal experiments (11 May 2009 )

Directive 86/609: EU Parliament vote gives “a glimmer of hope” for animals in laboratories but does not go far enough ( 6 May 2009 )

Global agreement on alternatives (30 April 2009 )

Join our Make Animal Testing History virtual march (23 April 2009 )

Dr Hadwen Trust research wins non-animal replacement prize (27 March 2009 )

Ethical consumers let down despite Europe’s cosmetics animal test ban (11 March 2009 )

MEP vote supports non-animal research but fails on lab animal protection (10 March 2009 )

Yet another failed monkey 'model' of HIV signals need for replacements ( 6 March 2009 )

MEP exposes industry threat to lab animal welfare reform (26 February 2009 )

Replacing laboratory primates in Europe 'a matter of moral and scientific urgency' says Dr Hadwen Trust (22 January 2009 )

Brain donors vital for medical research (21 January 2009 )

MEPs get ready to debate Europe’s new draft animal experiments Directive (19 December 2008 )

Dr Hadwen Trust statement: Oxford University’s new animal facility opens (12 November 2008 )

EU primate research hearing condemned for 'astonishing bias'. ( 7 November 2008 )

Revised Directive 86/609/EEC on animal experiments: read the Dr Hadwen Trust's reaction to new draft ( 5 November 2008 )

New report: Replacing Primates in Medical Research (25 October 2008 )

Animal tests are failing to protect public from shellfish poisoning – Dr Hadwen Trust welcomes European Food Safety Authority report ( 9 October 2008 )

One failing CF animal model leads to another (26 September 2008 )

Pressure builds to end nanomaterials in cosmetics until new non-animal safety tests are introduced (25 September 2008 )

Pain experts say greater focus on high-tech non-animal research could help thousands of patients (18 August 2008 )

New research reveals 115 million animals used in experiments worldwide (13 August 2008 )

Animal experiments reach 3 million animals for first time in 16 years (21 July 2008 )

£620,000 for cystic fibrosis, childhood tumours, brain research and asthma – without animal experiments ( 9 July 2008 )

Acute toxicity tests challenged (16 June 2008 )

Dr Jane Goodall presents our 150,000 signature petition ( 9 June 2008 )

Primatologist Dr Jane Goodall & Dr Hadwen Trust lead call for EU strategy to replace animal experiments (29 May 2008 )

I am not a mouse (16 May 2008 )

New approach in asthma research could replace animal tests and save lives (30 April 2008 )

New posters promote animal-friendly research (18 April 2008 )

The ugly face of the beauty industry: exposed (17 April 2008 )

Get Active for WWLA08 (27 February 2008 )

US scientists shifting to robots instead of rats in chemical testing (17 February 2008 )

MOD pledges to stop hideous hyperbaric experiments on goats ( 7 February 2008 )

Risk of 80% cut in animal test data – Home Office decides (29 January 2008 )

Nearly 400,000 animals used in Scottish labs (29 January 2008 )

Global alliance for animals in laboratories (29 January 2008 )

Survey: more action needed on human tissues (16 January 2008 )

Red herring not red tape (13 December 2007 )

Government funding for NC3Rs increases, but still not enough (10 December 2007 )

Vintage fashion website launched to help charity (30 November 2007 )

Government needs radical re-think on primate experiments (23 November 2007 )

EU Commissioner urges quicker approval of non-animal tests (14 November 2007 )

New statistics: Britain still animal testing capital of Europe ( 9 November 2007 )

Fun stuff – new web banners! ( 1 November 2007 )

Think Before You Give … to animal testing – our plea to Montagne Jeunesse and The Co-operative ( 1 November 2007 )

'Joint in a test tube' to replace animal tests for arthritis (26 October 2007 )

Scienceroom.org re-launched! (13 October 2007 )

Nobel prize 'knockout mice' research already superseded by ‘switching off’ human genes in the test tube (11 October 2007 )

LUSH Cosmetics joins our call to MEPs: "Act now to replace animal experiments!" ( 2 October 2007 )

Universities lag behind industry in replacing animal experiments (29 August 2007 )

Targeting Multiple Sclerosis (21 August 2007 )

Animal-free pain research advanced with PhD studentship (16 August 2007 )

Dr Hadwen Trust ethical science award goes to pioneering brain scanner team (15 August 2007 )

3 new projects launched to replace GM mice (27 July 2007 )

Animal experiments rise to 15 year high – government accused of 'ethical negligence' (23 July 2007 )

No mean 'feet' – sponsor Sarah to walk 250 mile Cornish coast path to stamp out animal suffering ( 4 July 2007 )

Testing chemicals on animals out-performed by ethical alternatives, report says. (25 June 2007 )

Dr Hadwen Trust responds to No.10 'e-petition' statement (20 June 2007 )

Exposed - Britain's animal labs fail to meet new EU standards (15 June 2007 )

Ethical ranking of top pharma companies slammed for ignoring animal testing ( 8 June 2007 )

EU-wide organ donor card will save lab animals too ( 6 June 2007 )

New DNA test could replace animal experiments (21 May 2007 )

Breast cancer in a test tube could replace animal tests (10 May 2007 )

Dr Hadwen Trust shares in success of new methods to replace painful tests on rabbits (30 April 2007 )

Sign petition to Tony Blair (29 April 2007 )

World Day for Lab Animals 2007: Science Without Suffering Report exposes extreme suffering (24 April 2007 )

Peter Tatchell interviews Dr Gill Langley in web TV special (11 April 2007 )

Off-the-shelf mutant mice ( 2 April 2007 )

Think Before You Give ... to animal testing ( 1 April 2007 )

Post TGN1412, EU Medicines Agency draft guidelines criticise animal tests (28 March 2007 )

Budget ignores non-animal research (26 March 2007 )

Ireland could be first to ban monkey experiments (19 March 2007 )

Oxford University: Seminar given by our own Dr Gill Langley at Oxford University, organised by VERO (16 March 2007 )

Cardiff University researcher aims to find humane replacement to end painful 'crushing and burning' animal experiments (14 March 2007 )

National Obesity Week ( 8 March 2007 )

Dr Hadwen Trust welcomes new cell preservation technology to replace animal experiments ( 2 March 2007 )

The Dr Hadwen Trust's response to "The mice that roared" (Guardian newspaper, February 13 2007) (14 February 2007 )

Act now to replace animal experiments (14 February 2007 )

Virtual human metabolism created ( 3 February 2007 )

Government must do more to replace animal experiments (23 January 2007 )

National Rabbit Week (22 January 2007 )

Home Office Inspectors' report 2005 published (14 December 2006 )

Weatherall primate report slammed by Dr Hadwen Trust (12 December 2006 )

Animal groups tell EU "Act now to replace animal experiments" (11 December 2006 )

Alzheimer’s cat warning – "not reliable for human disease" ( 6 December 2006 )

World AIDS Day warning – animal research costs human lives ( 1 December 2006 )

Dr Hadwen Trust response to Tony Blair's science speech ( 3 November 2006 )

Scotland’s animal testing rises by 4.5% - fastest rise in Britain ( 2 November 2006 )

Dr Gill Langley accuses Government of "complacency and hypocrisy" ( 1 November 2006 )

Non-animal drug testing needed to avoid another TGN1412 (13 October 2006 )

Joanna Lumley, proud patron of the Dr Hadwen Trust ( 5 September 2006 )

Changing views of animal research (12 August 2006 )

Test-tube breakthrough in hepatitis research (10 August 2006 )

Dr Hadwen Trust welcomes the Smart Petri dish ( 1 August 2006 )

Shocking scale of UK animal experiments (24 July 2006 )

Reflections on a drug trial disaster (20 June 2006 )

Showcasing replacements - humane science at its best ( 1 April 2006 )

Euro-MP delivers Dr Hadwen Trust's petition to Government (11 November 2005 )

Gala dinner: the Dr Hadwen Trust's 35th anniversary (17 October 2005 )

Walk for Laboratory Animals 2005 (19 September 2005 )

Animal experiments: scientific necessity or moral outrage? (15 April 2005 )