In a recent House subcommittee hearing, findings from a study by the watchdog group White Coat Waste Project were shared.

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

For years, scientific divers at a research station in the Mediterranean Sea had a problem: at some point in every field ...

Humans and other animals are relatively similar. Animal experimentation can therefore provide a base for experiments with human subjects or even replace them. Animal experimentation also improves our ...

But opponents of animal experimentation are not content with ... by making irrelevant emotional appeals and obscuring the real issues, to galvanize into life something of the old spirit of ...

This study was intended to see the results of the domestication syndrome in real time ... Belyaev to head this experiment. This experiment in animal genetics may have interesting implications ...

Animals in experiments undergo everything from invasive ... Yet there is in humanism a real primacy of empathy and we do feel that for animals just as we feel it for humans. I would hope that ...

Research bureaucrats, for example-- those who determine funding priorities--regularly sidestep criticism of animal experimentation, even if it comes from within the ranks of science and medicine. But ...

A bill before the legislature would ensure a peaceful, pain-free life for primates no longer needed for medical testing, Virginia Sen. Bill Stanley writes in a guest column.

All scientific activities involving living animals classify as animal experimentation under the Animal Welfare Act (external page Tierschutzgesetz) and are subject to the rules described on this page.