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 ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

It’s been more than a year since US President Joe Biden signed a law allowing researchers to test drug candidates on human tissue or computer models before moving to trials in people. This challenged ...

The owner of a rescued lab dog considers if insights gleaned through animal research are enough to justify the practice.

Real change takes a long time, and when it happens, it must be recognized. The FDA and the NIH have announced their move away from animal testing, improving scientific outcomes and marking a victory ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — People with substance use disorder who participate in recovery running programs have shown improved success in maintaining their sobriety and reducing their risk for relapse. Those ...

Visakhapatnam: Leading scientists and regulators reiterated the critical importance of well-designed and ethically conducted ...

When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they ...

Never underestimate the mind of a crow. Members of a family of birds that includes ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays, crows have been known to bend wire into hooks to retrieve food; drop nuts in a road ...

If a Connecticut legislative committee were to get its way, breeders and facilities that do animal testing would be required to offer animals they no longer want for adoption instead of immediately ...

Neuralink is building a brain implant that lets people control computers by thought. The pitch is bold, and the demos look impressive. Yet the road to those moments has been rough. Early research used ...