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

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 ...

Humans and other animals are relatively similar. Animal experimentation can therefore provide a base for experiments with human subjects or even replace them. Animal experimentation also improves our ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Animals are therefore often used as a models of human where legislation or ethical considerations do not allow experiments with humans. Animals are not only used as a model of human, but may also be ...

It is a legal requirement that all active substances are tested in animal experiments for effectiveness and side effects. There are therefore no drugs without animal research. In addition, animal ...