Rise for Animals @riseforanimals.bsky.social · 14/08/2026🦎 It's #WorldLizardDay. While we're celebrating these amazing animals today, we're also thinking of those used and killed in laboratory experiments. In recent NIH-funded research, scientists amputated lizards’ tails and hind legs. (1/6) 173 0
Rise for Animals @riseforanimals.bsky.social · 14/08/2026In some experiments, they took spinal cord tissue from the regenerated tails of “donor” geckos and implanted it into the amputated limbs of other geckos. And at the end of the experiments, the lizards were killed. (2/6) 110 0
Rise for Animals @riseforanimals.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The NIH has promoted this federally funded research, even highlighting the lead researcher’s view that lizards are “very underused research organisms” and his hope that more scientists will use them in labs. (3/6) 110 0
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