Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” grown from human cells. R3 Bio, a billionaire-backed biotech startup, is ...

I’m a wildlife veterinarian specializing in monkeys, so I know there are ways to prevent the recent incident in Mississippi where eight monkeys escaped during transport from a research lab in New ...

Scientists have found post-research homes for dogs, cats, rats, and many other kinds of animals, but adopting them out does ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — A national animal rights group is alleging violations of the Animal Welfare Act by a research organization contracted by University of North Texas Health Science Center led to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Governments have announced plans to reduce the number of animals, such as mice, used in experimental procedures. (Philip Cheung ...

Kaplan is the author of “Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research.” We woke in Boston before daybreak as usual, and Hammy — my beagle, who was once a lab dog ...

Three individuals, including a Republican, Democrat, and actress, are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to suspend the practice of importing monkeys for ...

Around 348 B.C., Aristotle took a two-year trip to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to study animals in a lagoon. Along with observing the creatures in their natural habitat and surmising, among ...

All animal experiments were performed on mice and zebrafish that were either bred or genetically modified to quickly develop cancer. Would this same effect be expected in wild-type animals? Would the ...