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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its new 2025 Guidelines on the replacement or removal of animal tests for the quality control of biological products.

When developing new therapies for diseases, biotech researchers are often limited by two time-consuming steps: first, screening thousands of drug candidates in test tubes and second, taking the best ...

The Beagle Freedom Project is transforming a 30-acre property in Oklahoma that used to be an animal testing facility into Freedom Fields Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tore into Dr. Anthony Fauci in an off-topic rant before Congress on Monday while accusing him of personally approving “disgusting and evil” animal testing on dogs ...

A new study has shed light on just how few treatments tested on animals are approved for use in humans. Among all of the 122 systematic reviews the team analyzed, 50% of the included therapies that ...