One of the biggest monkey research centers in the United States may transition into an animal sanctuary, in what would be an unprecedented move that will have repercussions for scientific research ...

Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN), which monitors research facilities for fraud and animal abuse, filed an administrative ...

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

Dr. Katherine Roe of PETA on rethinking animal testing, emerging science methods, and how women scientists are reshaping research and funding.

Researchers have proposed a new ethical framework to regulate emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and ...

Western University's Animal Care Committee cleared researcher Frank Prato's controversial use of dogs in medical research but a philosophy professor who specializes in ethics of animal treatment says ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early ...

The vote came as NIH looks to transition at least one of seven national primate research centers into an animal sanctuary.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

A new perspective paper authored by Physicians Committee scientists and other members of the Coalition to Illuminate and Address Animal Methods Bias (COLAAB) was just published. It discusses ...