Scientists secretly wired dogs’ brains to steer their behavior, revealing just how far the agency was willing to push its ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed a federal complaint last week against the University of Washington ...

On June 2, The Daily published an article describing how Northwestern researchers are responding to current moves by the government to reduce animal-based research in favor of human-based studies. For ...

Experiments on animals (“in vivo” experiments) have long been the norm for learning about human health and disease, because testing on live animals enables researchers to investigate how chemicals, ...

The safety tests that the government says will no longer use animals by the end of this year include the practice of giving rabbits a small dose of a new drug – called the pyrogen test. It says this ...

It's a historic first but will it be enough? It promises that by the end of next year, no more animals will have their ...

The government has announced plans to stop scientific experiments on animals, except in some rare situations. They say they want other testing methods to be used instead, including a greater use of ...

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types.

The move comes as several US federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration are shifting away from conducting studies on non-human primates. They are ...