There are a lot of hot-button questions when it comes to the ethics of scientific research, but the perennial issue of animal testing seems to incite fever-pitched anger on both side of the debate.

Animal models have long shaped how biomedical research is conducted. They have influenced how diseases are studied, how ...

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Larry Carbone offers an insider's perspective on the ethics of using animals in invasive research, the need for more compassion, and what must be done immediately on their behalf.

The National Institutes of Health announced last week that it will no longer issue funding calls for grant proposals that rely solely on animal testing. Moving forward, all such calls must also ...

Animal testing in Connecticut rakes in millions in federal dollars each year at colleges and universities but, the National Institutes of Health recently announced it is pivoting from using just ...

A third-party review into the use of dogs for medical research at London's Lawson Research Institute has found that the testing, which induced heart attacks in the dogs, followed all "regulatory, ...

ANIMAL HOUSE — The Trump administration is advancing its efforts to wind down animal testing, aiming to transition at least one of seven national primate research centers into an animal sanctuary, ...

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 ...

To become a leader for humane technologies, India will need bold investments, global alliances, and strengthened participant engagement ...

For generations, U.S. laboratories treated animal testing as an unquestioned prerequisite for new drugs and chemicals, even as the ethical toll mounted. Now, after centuries of routine cruelty, the ...

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