'Cutting edge' scanner in city; HEALTH: Animal rights-backed machine tested on humans.THE UK's most powerful brain scanner has been unveiled in Birmingham with animal rights campaigners funding the machine as it replaces the use of animals in research. The Magnetic Resonance Imaging magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), noninvasive diagnostic technique that uses nuclear magnetic resonance to produce cross-sectional images of organs and other internal body structures. scanner, which is twice as powerful as any found in hospitals, has been built at Aston University Outside:
Aston University has both standard and en-suite accommodation on campus. in the hope of a breakthrough in medical research. The scanner, which tests humans rather than guinea pigs, was unveiled at the university's research centre yesterday with the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Coun Mike Sharpe, in attendance. It will allow researchers to map functions of various parts of the human brain. The Lord Dowding Fund - the research funding arm of Animal Defenders International Animal Defenders International (ADI) is a non-profit campaigning group working for better treatment of animals, and animal rights. Based in the UK, it is known for efforts to expose the animal cruelty in circuses, by working undercover and gathering video evidence. and the National Anti-Vivisection Society - has pledged to pay the pounds 80,000 a year running costs until the end of the decade. Tim Phillips, campaign director, said the scanner was at the "cutting edge" of non-animal research, and could also be used for sports injuries. PHONE VOTE: PAGE 63 |
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