As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.

In April 2025, the FDA announced plans to shift biomedical research for monoclonal antibodies and other medications away from animal testing toward new approaches. One year later, much speculation ...

LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...

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 Animal Research Facility located in the ABSL-3 facility of the vivarium in the Saint Louis University Doisy Research Center offers sophisticated equipment for the optical imaging of small animals.

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it is embracing a new program aimed at expanding innovative, human-based science to decrease the use of animals in research. According to the NIH, ...

This is one of two op-eds published today on the question of whether to close OHSU’s National Primate Research Center. To read the op-ed by the head of the Physicians Committee for Responsible ...

Following a report that Middlebury College sent to federal authorities last year disclosing its own lapses in laboratory research work and outlining a remediation plan, an animal research watchdog ...

A student at the University of New England tags a dogfish shark researchers caught while studying how electrical impulses could be used to ward off sharks, off the coast of Biddeford in September 2023 ...