Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

The toxicity of chemicals is also investigated using animal research. It is a legal requirement that all active substances are tested in animal experiments for effectiveness and side effects. There ...

UK law both requires and regulates experiments on animals. Any new drug must be tested on at least two different species of live mammal, one of which must be a large non-rodent. The way scientists ...

New data was revealed from Marymount University that the federal government is moving closer to eliminating the use of ...

It is all too easy for the public to underestimate how little understanding and control humans have over biology and how limited and contingent our greatest advances in medical science have been.

We are pleased to announce we have published our ‘Roadmap to phase out animal testing’. This has been sent to all MPs in the ...

The animals were fed infected meat, and the parasite's eggs harvested for use in other experiments - then the cats were put down. But the department has announced it will stop using the cats after ...

In addition to this, the researchers measured the level of the stress hormone corticosterone in the animals' tail feathers. "Our experiments show that stress responses can spread beyond ...

There is one specific task that stress researchers who conduct animal experiments need to be particularly skilled at. This also applies to researchers who want to improve the conditions in which ...

An organ transplantation research team from Tongji Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan has ...