Animals news

• Social media platforms to face £18m fines for publishing animal cruelty content

  07-09-2023 22:36
  
  In a change to the online safety bill, tech firms will have to proactively prevent material that facilitates animal torture from being postedSocial media firms must remove animal cruelty content from their platforms or face the threat of substantial fines under the latest change to the online safety bill.Ministers said causing unnecessary suffering to an animal will become a priority offence in the bill, which means tech firms will have to proactively prevent such material from reaching users. F
  
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• Humanised kidneys grown inside pigs for the first time

  07-09-2023 19:19
  
  Hybrid organs raise prospect of fully human body parts being grown inside animals for transplantsScientists have grown humanised kidneys in pigs, raising the prospect of human organs being grown inside animals.The research involved creating human-pig chimeric embryos containing a combination of human and pig cells. When transferred into surrogate pig mothers, the developing embryos were shown to have kidneys that contained mostly human cells, marking the first time that scientists have grown a s
  
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