Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...

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 ...

What do you know about our modern era of brands and product testing on animals? Animal testing was once a routine part of ...

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 ...

The European Food Safety Authority (ESFA) develops a new platform to model and predict the toxicity of chemicals, signalling the potential to end animal testing. Safety assessments to evaluate the ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Brenner is a physician-scientist and president and chief executive officer of Sanford Burnham Prebys and lives in La Jolla. In 1937, there was great demand for a new way to treat streptococcal ...

A rare moment of bipartisan progress has emerged with the Senate’s unanimous passage of the FDA Modernization Act 3.0, ...

The push to abandon animal testing is gaining momentum, driven by the realization that it is costly, unreliable and ...

When developing new therapies for diseases, biotech researchers are often limited by two time-consuming steps: first, screening thousands of drug candidates in test tubes and second, taking the best ...

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.

The Beagle Freedom Project is transforming a 30-acre property in Oklahoma that used to be an animal testing facility into Freedom Fields Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...