Each year on April 24, scientists, advocates, and policymakers around the world mark World Day for Laboratory Animals—a ...

Animal testing has shaped medicine for decades. Discover new alternatives, changing laws, and the future of humane science.

A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been updated by a committee of experts, taking into consideration input from the scientific and laboratory ...

Stem Pharm, a Madison biotech startup, is using lab-created 3D "organoids" to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. In April, the FDA and NIH announced plans to incentivize so-called "new ...

Countless millions of nonhuman animals (animals) of all sorts are used in a diverse array of laboratory research. Their treatment varies from being unspeakably inhumanely abused to being treated with ...

A good deal of scientific research shows that mice and rats are bright, sentient, and deep emotional rodents. Yet they aren't even considered to be "animals" in the United States federal Animal ...

Around 348 B.C., Aristotle took a two-year trip to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to study animals in a lagoon. Along with observing the creatures in their natural habitat and surmising, among ...

A biotech startup seeks to end animal testing with the creation of headless human bodyoids. Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former Macalester College animal laboratory workers joined distinguished alumni and more than 130 mental health professionals and animal welfare experts to call on Macalester ...

New addition to state’s veterinary lab system will speed animal disease diagnoses, lowering business costs and helping ...