The USDA Animal and Plant Inspection Service (APHIS) has overseen the enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) for over 40 years.  APHIS currently posts online the AWA Annual Report of Research Facility and AWA Inspection Reports, to allow public…

All of the presentations are exceptionally informative, and while individuals who were unable to attend the meeting in person will miss the commentary provided by the speakers, many of the concepts can be identified from the slides, and encourage further discussion. …

According to research presented earlier this week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, an annual income of less than $50,000 may be a significant barrier to participation in clinical trials. As might be expected, lower…

The California state legislature is currently considering a bill known as the Genetic Information Privacy Act. The bill includes very specific requirements for informed consent to collect, use, retain and share genetic information, along with a requirement to destroy specimens once…

A recent conference entitled “Safe and Secure Biomaterials: Matching Resources to Reality”, on Thursday 17 May 2012 at the Chatham House (UK) presented researchers with a disturbing report regarding the lack of biosafety controls that were found in “developing countries”. …

The CDC has posted the latest Summary of Notifiable Diseases, which contains data for the year 2010.  According to the CDC, “A notifiable disease is one for which regular, frequent, and timely information regarding individual cases is considered necessary for the…

Osiris Therapeutics’s drug  Prochymal (remestemcel-L), for acute graft-versus host disease (GvHD), has been approved for marketing  by regulators in Canada.  The “drug” is approved for suppressing the immune system in patients that have received transplants, where the grafts attack the patients bodies. …