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Physicians Committee Joins Coalition in Petitioning NIH to Protect Octopuses Used in Research Labs
June 24, 2020
WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine issued the following news release:

Harvard's Animal Law & Policy Clinic, along with a coalition that includes the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, has petitioned the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to include cephalopods--octopus, squid, and cuttlefish--among the animals entitled to humane treatment by those involved in federally funded research.

The Clinic is representing th . . .

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