The claim originated from reports published by the conservative-led nonprofit White Coat Waste, which aims to end animal ...

Members of Congress exploded Thursday over reports that taxpayer money has paid for experiments using “transgender lab rats,” saying it was time to shut down the government’s animal-testing industry.

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 ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beagles are often used in laboratory animal testing. They are considered balanced, friendly to humans, and able to endure a lot. PETBOOK reports on the suffering they endure and what happens to the ...

Animal welfare and animal rights groups are praising the Trump administration’s moves away from animal testing for the development of pharmaceuticals as well as for medical and other research. They ...

I am living with ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often called Lou Gehrig’s disease. The average survival time after ...

A beagle who had spent the vast majority of his life living in a cage at an animal testing facility has taken his first steps as a free dog. For the longest time, all Zoomer, aged 6, ever knew was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. If a book’s topic were “farms for the production of beagles for some ...