Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

What is an animal experiment? In Switzerland, external page animal welfare legislation defines what is considered an animal experiment. Any use of animals in the interest of finding answers to a ...

There is, however, no ethical justification for the assumption that experimentation upon animals, even when it involves some pain or entails, as is more common, death without pain,—since the ...

The National Institute of Health quietly cut over $1 million in federally funded research evaluating if rats going through ...

Researchers must continually remind the public that animal experimentation is essential, not only for its clinical applications to human and animal health, but because it is usually the only ...

The National Institutes of Health has quietly booted a Chinese lab that performed grisly experiments on beagles from its list ...

In Germany, animal research is primarily carried out in the areas of basic research, medicine and veterinary medicine. Animal research can also be required to identify factors that pose a risk to the ...

The Purdue Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and the Laboratory Animal Program perform distinct and complementary roles to ensure animal well-being in research, testing, and teaching. The ...

As a pediatric psychiatrist who treats transgender children, I’ve been closely following the controversy over “transgender ...

Animal experiments are subject to strict ethical and legal regulations. Every animal experiment in Switzerland requires a license and is reviewed carefully by the cantonal veterinary office and the ...

A research team from TU Graz and the Vellore Institute of Technology in India is developing a 3D-printed skin imitation ...

Since the EU banned animal testing for cosmetics and their ingredients, researchers have been developing 3-D printed skin as a replacement.