Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...

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 ...

Millions of animals each year are killed in U.S. laboratories as part of medical training and chemical, food, drug and cosmetic testing, according to the non-profit animal rights organization People ...

The National Institutes of Health announced last week that it will no longer issue funding calls for grant proposals that rely solely on animal testing. Moving forward, all such calls must also ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

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 ...

As the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2018-2021, I unveiled a bold plan to responsibly phase out testing on dogs, rabbits and other mammals by 2035 in favor of far ...

Members of Congress are pressing the Environmental Protection Agency over its renewed support for animal testing and its backsliding on rabbits that were supposed to be retired, saying the government ...

Criticism of animal research − usually associated with the progressive left − has grown in recent years, as the practice is blamed for the slow pace of drug development. The Food and Drug ...