The reason why labs use Beagles is the same reason so many people love them: they are even-tempered, docile dogs. These scent ...

After years of court hearings, investigations, open rescues, and protests, the notorious beagle breeding and research ...

Feinberg Professor emerita Eva Redei’s research had two key components: vats of water and “depressed” rats. Redei found that the rodents, genetically engineered in a Kyoto lab to exhibit depressive ...

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 ...

Well before a human receives the first dose of an experimental drug, it’s evaluated in an animal to test for toxicity. Monkeys are often chosen for their genetic similarities to humans, and safe ...

Harvard Medical School also credits animal experiments with developing breakthroughs in treating diabetes, high cholesterol, ...

The most galling element of experiments on animals is how unnecessary they are, writes Dr Julia Baines ...

Drugs have been tested on animals for over a century, but new technology may one day eliminate the need to do so. Congress and the FDA are pushing pharmaceutical companies to replace animals with ...

The Trump administration is redoubling its efforts to phase out animal testing in drug development and seeking to develop new biotechnology methods instead to spur innovation in the pharmaceutical ...

Merck KGaA plans to phase out most animal testing in favor of new approach methodologies (NAMs) such as organs-on-a-chip and organoids over the next decade. The move aligns with a global regulatory ...