Can Better Biotech Finally Replace Lab Animals?
Replacing research animals with tools that better mimic human biology could improve medicine.
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Science Can Differ, Complicating Animal Welfare Issues
While you may be able to prove a point while using scientific information, people with differing opinions can often prove their points by using another set of scientific information.
What Are Farm Animals Thinking?
New research is revealing surprising complexity in the minds of goats, pigs, and other livestock.
Commission acts to accelerate phasing out of animal testing in response to a European Citizens' Initiative
Commission acts to accelerate phasing out of animal testing in response to a European Citizens' Initiative
The Commission is responding to the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) ‘Save Cruelty-free Cosmetics - Commit to a Europe without Animal Testing'. The response provides a comprehensive overview of the EU's legislative and policy framework relevant to the use of animals for testing purposes. It also proposes additional actions to further reduce animal testing.
Animal welfare: Methods to improve policy and practice
New methods are emerging to quantify human and animal welfare on a common scale, creating new tools for policy.
Opinion: When Animals Are Used in Research
Readers discuss experimentation on lab animals.
How science is getting closer to a world without animal testing
New technology involving miniature human organs built in a lab is a step towards better treatments and ending a contentious practice.
She Experimented on Primates for Decades. Now She Wants to Shut Down the Labs
Lisa Jones-Engel quit her work as a lab researcher when she began to see how 'like us' monkeys are
Hundreds of UK and EU Cosmetics Products Contain Ingredients Tested on Animals
New analysis finds chemicals tested on animals in moisturisers, lipsticks, hair conditioner and sunscreen, despite ban.
The US is Boosting Funding for Research Monkeys in the Wake of COVID
The US is Boosting Funding for Research Monkeys in the Wake of COVID
The investments are promising but won't fix the primate shortage, experts say.
Coronavirus and the Mink: Death in a Fur Coat
The mass killing of Danish minks shines a spotlight on a highly dubious industry. It also shows how little we value the lives and deaths of so-called farm animals.
Millions of Animals May Be Missing from Scientific Studies
Analysis at Dutch university suggests researchers are not reporting a large number of animal experiments.
India Pushes for Alternatives to Animals in Biomedical Research
Organs-on-a-chip and other technologies are becoming reliable models for testing drug efficacy and toxicity.
Depression Researchers Rethink Popular Mouse Swim Tests
Animal-rights group's campaign to end forced-swim tests comes amid debate over whether method is overused.
Swiss Researchers Struggle to Get Animal Experiments Approved
Scientists say that increasingly rigorous licensing procedures have complicated research efforts - and in some cases, stopped experiments completely.
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