A research group in Leipzig (Germany) has developed a new “model” of a so-called back skin chamber. Back chamber models in mice have been used in animal research for 80 years to look into the skin of living animals. The dorsal skin of the anesthetized mouse is stretched between two metal frames, which are screwed together. In the middle of the metal frame is a transparent observation window – a kind of porthole.

By the way – these torture instruments have been used in animal experiments for more than 80 years.

In this area, holes will be cut into the upper skin layers of the mouse. So they can watch the blood vessels of the animal through the extremely tight skin. The “advantage” of the “Leipzig chamber model” described here, the researchers call the smaller size and lower weight compared to other back chamber models!!

But: in the US, a smaller and lighter chamber has already been developed. So.. here 66 mice were researched for something that already exists and that nobody needs anyway!

https://bit.ly/2smeqz5

https://www.aerzte-gegen-tierversuche.de/de/neuigkeiten/2829-alkoholsucht-raucherlunge-zersaegte-knochen-und-ein-bullauge-in-der-maus

My comment: Why and for what and what perverse and completely pointless other experiments on our living beings are exercised, has long been known. But just these torturous animal experiments are sold as a kind of animal welfare (“refinement”) !!

Best regards, Venus

Professor Tasuku Honjo has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), a key player in tumor immunology. He shares the award with Professor James P. Allison, who pioneered research on the immune checkpoint protein CTLA-4, another major pathway allowing cancer cells to evade the immune system.

Prof. James P. Allison (left) and Dr. Tasuku Honjo (right) were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in Stockholm on 10 December. For their experiments, they have bred mice with tumors. Only in the breeding of such a so-called model, there should be up to fifty committee animals. So animals that do not even survive the cruel breed. For the livestock then begins a life of agony. Locked up in a laboratory, the researchers make cruel experiments with them. Some die immediately, others have a painful life.

Tormented dogs, rabbits, hamsters, chimpanzees, sheep, cows, chickens, pigs and frogs form the basis of the work of the Nobel Prize in Medicine since 1901. It is no wonder that animal rights are trampled here. Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Foundation, was an explosives and arms dealer and was not even interested in human rights. Over three million land mines delivered his weapons factory in the world. How many children have lost body parts throughhis mines or have even died, can not count.

Background:

To be against animal experiments shows superior intelligence to the scientists performing these experiments.
Penicillin has saved more lives than any other drug. If it were discovered today, it would be different. Because it would not have passed the animal experiment, and thus would never be allowed for humans. The same applies to aspirin and insulin.

Animal experiments are not only cruel, they even hinder science.

Why are they being carried out?

1.A genetically modified rat costs up to 75,000 euros. So there are people who make a lot of money with it.
2.Researchers like to read about themselves in specialist magazines. They succeed best with a publication about an animal experiment. So there are people who accelerate their careers with animal experiments.
3.Then there are politicians who do not know or do not want to know.

And how are the experiments paid?
With taxpayers’ money for which citizens, animal lovers or not, have worked hard.

97% of all drugs tested in animal experiments are never approved!
Already in the breeding of animals for animal experiments, many animals are tortured and killed: On a useful “model” come about 50 animals to be disposed of.
More than 60 percent of all diseases are not curable, although researchers experiment with animals for decades.

They already exist, the animal-free, forward-looking research. For example, in-vitro testing and organ microchips are the most ground-breaking revolution of the future, and are already on the rise in the US and Asia.

The Netherlands, which want to be free of animal experiments by 2025, show that there is another way.

Also interesting are the contradictory justifications: From an ethical point of view: Animals are not as developed as humans, so we may experiment with them.
From a scientific point of view: Animals are so similar to us, so it makes sense to experiment with them. Both can not be true at the same time, right?

https://jedertag.org/gar-nicht-nobel-tierquaeler-fuer-nobelpreis-nominiert/

https://www.asianscientist.com/2018/10/topnews/tasuku-honjo-2018-nobel-prize-physiology-medicine-pd1/

My comment: I quote from http://www.asianscientist.com/: “Together, Honjo and Allison showed how different strategies can be used to inhibit the braking of the immune system in the treatment of cancer. The groundbreaking discoveries of the two winners are a milestone in the fight against cancer”!

Quote from an article in “Times” by dr. Richard Klausner -Director of the American National Cancer Institute: “The history of cancer research is the story of how to cure cancer in mice. For decades, we cure cancer in mice, but in humans it does not work! “

Best regards, Venus

Again a devastating failure in Alzheimer’s research on animals

At a recent science conference, a total of three pharmaceutical companies announced that their investigational drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease have failed – even though they had been successfully tested on mice [1]. The animals were genetically engineered to develop pseudo-Alzheimer’s disease.

The preparations, also known as BACE inhibitors, apparently even harmed the patients because they worsened their cognitive abilities and led to brain atrophy. The journal Nature writes about the long list of failures [2]: “Drug manufacturers have spent billions looking for therapies that can reverse or significantly slow Alzheimer’s – but to no avail.”

Alzheimer’s patients deserve better. Or to put it in the words of a molecular biologist cited in this article:

“The biggest mistake you can make is to assume there could be a mouse with Alzheimer’s. “

Experimenters must use higher-quality, animal-free research methods whose results are actually transferable to humans. For example, a groundbreaking study has just been published that has been performed on cells from the human brain [3]. It provides new insights into the development of Alzheimer’s and can thus contribute to the development of effective treatment methods.

Original published on April 3, 2017:

After a long series of failed attempts, animal experimenters have come to realize that their previous attempts to develop treatments for Alzheimer’s have come to nothing [4].
It’s hard to believe, but for decades time and money have been wasted on developing more than 100 medicines that ultimately turn out to be a failure. Countless animals have lost their lives so far.

In an attempt to develop medicines for Alzheimer’s, experimenters have been tormenting mice, dogs and other animals for years. The problem is that these animals do not get Alzheimer’s disease. Therefore, the “researchers” had to alter the genetic makeup of animals to trigger the formation of amyloid plaques, which similarly occur in the brain of affected individuals.

The result: The animals may seem to be helped against symptoms that look like Alzheimer’s but are not Alzheimer’s.
But human patients continue to suffer.

https://www.peta.de/tierversuche-alzheimer-forschung?fbclid=

My comment: Recently we reported about the case “Max Planck Institute” in Tübingen, remember?

https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2018/12/22/gernany-monkey-process-cancelled-how-works-the-labormafia/

The Greek Nikos Logothetis and his troupe “researched” for decades of Rhesus monkeys to vent the mystery of the human brain for the purpose of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.
The result: monkeys who were tortured to death, a lawsuit against Logothetis and other “researchers”, waste of billions of euros from our coffers for criminals idiots who have never brought a result for the benefit of man.
But these criminal idiots continue to work, they continue to earn, animals continue to die, and serious diseases continue to plague us all.

My best regards, Venus

$2.4 million daydreaming study and a very scientific examination of the sex habits of coked-up quails topped Senator Rand Paul’s annual list of maddening government waste, which this year clocked in at $114 million.

Last week, the Kentucky lawmaker issued his fourth installment of the annual ‘Festivus Waste Report,’ which names and shames some of the US government’s most egregious spending choices.

The waste is humorously documented in this year’s report. Some of the examples include the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spending $2.4 million to study daydreaming, and another NIH study, costing $874,000, which researched the sexual habits of quails that were high on cocaine.

My comment: So far, the Labor Mafia (almost all over the world) has brutally tortured millions of monkeys with our money to allegedly cure Parkinson’s, dementia, or Alzheimer’s. Without success until today.
Now the Labor Mafia in the US is collecting an extra helping of millions to research the sexual behavior of the quail under cocain!!
Is anyone so perverted or stupid to believe that experiments are being made for the good of humanity?

Best regards, Venus

Do you remember when we reported about the trial, in Max Planck Institute (MPI) in Tübingen, Germany, which was scheduled on January 7, 2019?

The facts

At the Max Planck Institute (MPI) in Tübingen, painful brain tests on rhesus monkeys were carried out for years. They have to sit for hours with their heads motionless and they are forced to “cooperate” by dehydration. In 2014, an undercover research (done by the SOKO organization) documented severe maltreatment of the monkeys by the MPI staff.  The prosecute accuses the scientists (who include the director of MPI Professor Nikos Logothetis) that they did not euthanize several monkeys, even though they knew that the experimental animals suffered severely for a long time.

Foto: Soko Tierschutz

Doctors Against Animal Testing filed criminal charges in January 2015.

Four years later, on January 7, 2019, three employees, including the director of the Institute Nikos Logothetis, were to be brought to trial because of serious animal cruelty.

“It would have been unique in the history of Germany that animal experimenters would have to answer for their actions in court,” explains Dr. Corina Gericke, Vice Chair of Doctors Against Animal Testing.

Foto: SOKO Tierschutz

Last information: This process has been canceled!

Reason for the refusal is:  A new report, which has given the defense at the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB) in order.
“The fact that four years after the filing of the complaint and a few days before the trial suddenly a courtesy certificate is conjured up from the hat is a slap in the face of all animal experiment opponents,” outraged veterinarian Gericke (“Doktors against animal Testing”) .
Doctors against animal experiments therefore doubt the objectivity of this report, because at the RUB almost identical experiments were made on apes until 2012, as at the MPI. They were finished when (and only because) the researcher retired.

Who was she? Stella’s fate

Stella, born in 2008, was a victim of the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen. She came from the company Novartis in Vienna, where she had already been abused for animal experiments. Her skull was broken open several times, with a chamber providing access to her brain. To prevent this from growing, she was repeatedly stunned, the opening with pipe wrench and screwdriver pried open and the tissue removed. The meninges are extremely sensitive to pain, the awakening from the anesthesia is the horror. Stella’s severe wounds became inflamed, she was paralyzed on one side, constantly vomiting and suffering pain. She was kept alive and suffering to prepare for a terminal attempt, a serious animal experiment lasting several days during which Stella died. Her life ended in 2013. These terrible fates bore many names. Stella was not an isolated case.

Stella, Foto: SOKO Tiereschutz

The trial was surprisingly stopped by a secret opinion of the animal experiment lobby, the criminal proceedings set – a judicial shame.

We fight against that.

Demonstration on 12/01/2019 in Tübingen, we demand together: justice for Stella – now more than ever!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1858742217581333/

My comment: It seems clear. For the public, Logothetis is a miserable animal abuser who tortured defenseless monkeys for questionable research purposes. In reality, nothing was more than the desire to satisfy his curiosity about how the brain works. Once again a psychopath proved to us how his own works.

Eveyone who knows and studies the history of the Third Reich knows how the animal experimenters tick. Their actions coincide 100% with the mass murderers of the Nazi era. In every detail. Even Zyklon B is still used for the killing of experimental animals, even if it is discouraged.

It is not possible to keep behaviorally disturbed people out of this area.

My best regards, Venus

Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—the largest funder of animal experimentation worldwide—announced that it’s planning to launch “funding opportunities to support centralized infrastructure for marmoset research.” A report on this cruel boondoggle—which will be funded using our tax dollars—states, “Although details are hazy, the funding might bring in new marmosets, expand or establish breeding colonies, or advance transgenic projects.”

In those “transgenic projects,” experimenters implant genetically manipulated embryos into female marmosets in order to produce babies who are born with disease-like symptoms or impairments.

In addition to its transparent cruelty, the use of animals in experimentation—including on chimpanzees, our closest living relatives—has proved an unqualified failure. The evidence is overwhelming that data from experiments on animals can’t be reliably applied to humans. For example, NIH itself acknowledges that 95 percent of drugs that test safe and effective in animals fail in humans because they don’t work or are dangerous. And a review in the prestigious medical journal The BMJ reported that more than 90 percent of “the most promising findings from animal research” fail to lead to human treatments.

By ramping up funding to increase the supply of marmosets for laboratories, NIH is doubling down on a failed enterprise.

Marmosets are intelligent and curious animals. In nature, they live high up in the canopies of rainforests in social groups that consist of up to three generations of family members. They are very vocal and communicate with each other in complex, high-volume calls that convey information about a variety of emotions and situations. Sensitive and largely monogamous pairs of groundhogs spend a lot of time caring for each other, cuddling each other lovingly, sharing food and coordinating activities, including raising their children.

But the cooperative nature of the marmosets – along with their small size and relatively high birth rate – make these monkeys a major target for experimentalists. And with most airlines ceasing to transport monkeys to laboratories – thanks to the ongoing campaign by PETA, its supporters and other animal welfare groups – the experimental industry is seeking endangered marmosets that can be bred in US laboratories to fill the void.

In other words, it has less to do with good science than with comfort.

Please urge NIH not to squander more tax dollars on failed animal experimentation and instead to redirect funds to modern, non-animal research methods. Please sign the petition ans share it:

https://support.peta.org/page/7639/action/1?utm_source=PETA::E-Mail&utm_medium=Alert&utm_campaign=

My comment: No! that has nothing to do with comfort, dear PETA!

It has to do with the desire for careers, it has to do with legalized torture of defenseless animals because of money and career. And it is a billion dollar business for the lab mafia.

Benefit and earn from this criminal business: experimenters, universities, the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, contract laboratories, animal breeders and accessory companies. All of them belong to the laboratory mafia and have great economic interest in animal experiments.

Today and after intensive campaigns by doctors and informed organizations, most people know that animal testing is a criminal stupidity, nothing more.

Anyone who claims that animal testing is for the benefit of man is either uninformed or makes money from it.

My best regards to all, Venus

A researcher from Munich, Prof. Bruno Reichart, has used pig hearts in baboons and thus paves the way for similar operations in humans. All media celebrate and participate: “With the new methods, xenotransplantation is no longer science fiction, and researchers around Reichart have been able to solve two problems: the preservation of donor hearts and their growth.” Prof. Bernhard Banas, Chairman of the German Transplantation Society (DTG)

Only the nationwide association “Doctors Against Animal Experiments” showed clue and responsibility and spoke now of a “false promise of salvation”.

If the researchers claims that his tests are cleared the way for experiments on humans, which in the future could reduce the acute organ deficiency and the waiting lists could be shorter again, then this would be “seriously wrong promises,” said the spokeswoman of the association Doctors Against Animal Testing eV  Silke Strittmatter, on Bayer broadcasting. She called the so-called xenotransplantation the “worst outgrowth of animal experimental research.” Ethical boundaries were ignored.

“Here something is presented as a medical breakthrough that does not correspond to reality. For the experiment pigs were genetically manipulated, the consequences for humans are incalculable”, so Strittmatter.

Continue reading “Pig hearts for sale!” →

Three employees of the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen are facing trial on January 7, 2019 for alleged animal abuse to monkeys.  They should have euthanized the animals instead of continue to experiment on them.

The story

At the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, brain research was conducted with monkeys.
Animal rights activists from SOKO Organization had filmed with a hidden camera in the lab – for example, a blood-smeared monkey – and filed charges against employees. Meanwhile, the experiments with monkeys were terminated at the Institute – according to the responsible researcher Nikos Logothetis, because he had no support from his colleagues.

Accordingly, the prelude to the trial is scheduled for 7 January 2019. The prosecution accuses the scientists that they have not euthanized several monkeys, although they knew that the experimental animals suffer unnecessarily longer. Among the defendants is the director of the Tübingen Institute, Professor Nikos Logothetis. The scientists had received penalties for this. Because they did not accept it, it comes from January 7 to the process.

Foto: SOKO

The accusations against the internationally renowned researcher Logothetis have worried among scientists worldwide. The Max Planck Society in Munich had withdrawn the monkey experiments from Logothetis. These have now been finished. Five days are scheduled for the trial. So far, eight witnesses are invited.

Logothetis is currently not allowed to conduct any animal testing and guidance, as a spokeswoman announced on Wednesday. He has already declared in 2015, after the allegations become known, to stop attempts on monkeys.

Friedrich Mülln

Quote from the Face book page of the SOKO organization:

“This has never happened before!
Three top animal experimenters for animal cruelty to monkeys in court.
It starts in January.

2013-2014 we filmed undercover at the MPI Tübingen.
Three years campaign with countless demos and actions.

                   Unique achievements:

-New construction of primate laboratory prevented
–The lies of the animal experiment lobby are revealed
-Primacy attempts ended
-Experimentators in court”

https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.max-planck-institut-tuebingen-prozess-wegen-mutmasslicher-tiermisshandlung-an-affen-beginnt.e8689eb6-f7a7-4749-b0e8-aad9798f6a3e.html

https://www.facebook.com/Friedrich-M%C3%BClln-870716029607864/

My comment: Yes! A trial against renowned laboratory sadists happened for the first time in Germany, the activist Friedrich Mülln is right.
The public is finally informed, many interviews are running on well-known TV stations, and the press is getting along.
It is a bitter blow against this criminal laboratory industry.
We hope and keep fighting.

My best regards, Venus