The push to abandon animal testing is gaining momentum, driven by the realization that it is costly, unreliable and ...

The owner of a rescued lab dog considers if insights gleaned through animal research are enough to justify the practice.

Despite claims to “drain the swamp” and cut wasteful government spending, and despite the efforts of Elon Musk and a new ...

Michael Budkie, the executive director of Stop Animal Exploitation NOW, said USC’s inspection report was one of the worst in the country this year. (Brittany Shaw / Daily Trojan) Stop Animal ...

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For thousands of years, humans have studied animals’ bodies to better understand our own. But using other animals as a proxy for humans is far from perfect. There are ethical issues for one, and they ...

There are a lot of hot-button questions when it comes to the ethics of scientific research, but the perennial issue of animal testing seems to incite fever-pitched anger on both side of the debate.

On April 10, the US Food and Drug Administration announced it would phase out animal testing for certain drug studies. The agency published a roadmap that outlines a six-prong approach to reducing ...

Michael Brunt receives funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He is affiliated with the Canadian ...

Unfortunately, the use of nonhuman animals in laboratories has always been entrusted to people in the habit of ardently shutting out criticism. Research bureaucrats, for example-- those who determine ...