Animal testing, long used in science, is considered outdated, cruel and unnecessary. Every year, millions of animals are subjected to painful experiments in laboratories, often resulting in permanent ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

Opponents of the experiments say the research has cost about $15 million in federal funding and resulted in the deaths of more than 300 dogs.

Experiments on animals (“in vivo” experiments) have long been the norm for learning about human health and disease, because testing on live animals enables researchers to investigate how chemicals, ...

PUDUCHERRY: Evolute Bioscience, a biotechnology firm in Tamil Nadu’s Trichy, has signed an agreement pledging to end all experiments on animals -- formerly required in its pharmacology education ...

Larry Carbone offers an insider's perspective on the ethics of using animals in invasive research, the need for more compassion, and what must be done immediately on their behalf.

State Rep. Taylor Collins, R-Mediapolis, is no fan of animal testing being used for scientific research at the University of Iowa. “Such conduct is abhorrent, barbaric, and entirely unacceptable ...

IOWA CITY — A state lawmaker is demanding the University of Iowa immediately audit its animal testing programs and pursue alternative research methods based on a watchdog group’s findings that UI ...

This story is part of a collaboration with The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina. A federal health agency that has promised to scale back its animal research has drawn the attention of ...

THE CASE FOR ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION An Evolutionary and Ethical Perspective. Michael Allen Fox. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1986. 276 pp. $18.95. Many readers are probably aware of the ...

Chandigarh: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India (PETA India) has announced that Chitkara University will no ...