THE LORD Dowding Fund for Humane Research has written to all MPs about its proposals to the House of Lords Select Committee on Animals in Scientific Procedures. It wants a national centre which will coordinate the development of ways of replacing animals in research and testing. The Lords gave the idea their blessing in general terms.
The fund does not envisage a central laboratory as such, but rather a body that can coordinate scientific work done at institutions nationwide. The aim would be to stimulate new research and to disseminate information on research methods that do not require the use…
