Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...

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 ...

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

The shift is part of a government-wide effort to phase out the use of live animals in federally sponsored tests, studies and ...

Experimenting on animals is a dark side of science and research. And most of us try not to think about the animals that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.