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This week the UK authorities set out its imaginative and prescient for a world the place using animals in science is eradicated in all however distinctive circumstances. Animal experiments in the UK peaked at 4.14 million in 2015 pushed primarily by an enormous enhance on the time in genetic modification experiments. By 2020, the quantity had fallen sharply to 2.88 million as various strategies and applied sciences had been developed. But since then that decline has plateaued.
Could we see the top of animals getting used in science labs? Presenter Tom Whipple is joined by Dr. Chris Powell, Director of Cambridge BioPharma Consultants Ltd. and honorary visiting scientist at Cambridge University and Dr. Natalie Burden, head of New Approach Methodologies on the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs).
And as world leaders collect for the COP30 local weather convention in Brazil, we communicate to glaciologist Dr. Matthias Huss. In the previous decade, his information has proven {that a} quarter of Swiss ice has been misplaced, with lots of of glaciers having disappeared totally. But a part of a type of glaciers stays in the freezer of his basement…
Also Penny Sarchet, managing editor at New Scientist, brings us her tackle the brand new science that issues this week.
To uncover extra fascinating science content material, head to bbc.co.uk, seek for BBC Inside Science and comply with the hyperlinks to The Open University.
Presenter: Tom Whipple
Producers: Clare Salisbury, Tim Dodd, Alex Mansfield, Jonathan Blackwell
Editor: Martin Smith
Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth