Animals

  • Read more: Learning from the ‘COVID War’

    Learning from the ‘COVID War’

    Preventing pandemic destruction is not just a question of “how to.” It is a question of organizing power from below.

    Los Angeles, California / USA - May 28, 2020: People in Downtown Los Angeles protest the brutal Police killing of George Floyd.
  • Read more: Pig Hearts for Humans and the FDA

    Pig Hearts for Humans and the FDA

    Researchers and clinicians alike see the potential for genetically modified animal organs to serve as a solution to our organ transplant and supply issues.

    Doctor or surgeon with organ transport after organ donation for surgery in front of the clinic in protective clothing.
  • Read more: Antibiotics in Agriculture: Preventing the Next Pandemic

    Antibiotics in Agriculture: Preventing the Next Pandemic

    Event Description To help kick off Antibiotic Awareness Week, please join us for this panel event that will explore how research, collaboration, and policy can encourage better antibiotic stewardship in animal agriculture and human health care. COVID-19 may not be the only pandemic of our lifetime. For decades, scientists have warned that bacteria are getting…

  • Read more: Malaria Eradication: For Africa as America

    Malaria Eradication: For Africa as America

    Despite being curable, and eliminated from most developed countries, malaria is the fifth deadliest infectious disease in the world. Gene drives could change that. Let’s give it a try.

    Close up of a mosquito sucking blood on human skin. This mosquito is a carrier of Malaria, Encephalitis, Dengue and Zika virus.
  • Read more: Orcas, Dolphins, and Whales: non-human persons and animal rights

    Orcas, Dolphins, and Whales: non-human persons and animal rights

    By Yusuf Lenfest With few exceptions, most cultures put homo sapiens at the center or the apex of creation. Humans, it is generally believed, are distinguished from other animals by our self-awareness and our ability to use tools, to think, reason, and construct meaning and representations about life. The Abrahamic religious traditions are most notable…

  • Read more: REGISTER NOW! Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States

    REGISTER NOW! Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States

    Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States January 26, 2018 Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Please join the ILAR Roundtable, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, and the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School for a one-day meeting to…

  • Read more: REGISTER NOW! Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States

    REGISTER NOW! Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States

    Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States January 26, 2018 Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Please join the ILAR Roundtable, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, and the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School for a one-day meeting to…

  • Read more: REGISTER NOW! Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States

    REGISTER NOW! Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States

    Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States January 26, 2018 Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Please join the ILAR Roundtable, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, and the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School for a one-day meeting to…