Animal testing has shaped medicine for decades. Discover new alternatives, changing laws, and the future of humane science.

What would you sacrifice to push efforts forward on eliminating diseases? What about to make sure our products and medicines are safe, especially for our most vulnerable? These questions lead us to ...

Countless millions of nonhuman animals (animals) of all sorts are used in a diverse array of laboratory research. Their treatment varies from being unspeakably inhumanely abused to being treated with ...

A recent op-ed in The Hill praising the National Institutes of Health’s new initiative to promote human-based technologies as a “major victory for animal ethics in science” oversimplifies a far more ...

The National Institutes of Health recently announced a landmark initiative to expand human-based science while reducing animal use. The world’s largest funder of biomedical and public health research ...

Welcome to the Office of Animal Resources (OAR) home page. OAR is a service center responsible for providing high quality animal care, veterinary care, and support for the research and teaching ...

A University of Minnesota neuroscience professor who studies brain activity in small monkeys has been suspended from research ...