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 ...

The ethics of using animals in scientific research have been a topic of debate for decades, and in 2024 alone, over 2.6 ...

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 ...

Testing on dogs, cats and nonhuman primates by the Department of Veterans Affairs is set to be largely eliminated by 2026, an issue praised this week both in Congress and by advocates, but which ...

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, ...

Shannon Keith sends letters to animal testing labs around the country offering to take any animals they no longer use for research. She rarely gets a reply. “They deserve a second chance at life when ...

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 ...

Recent years have seen a growing movement away from animal testing and toward models that more closely replicate human physiology. This shift aims to protect animal welfare while concurrently ...

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 ...

When we imagine the process of developing new drugs, we often picture scientists working with cutting-edge technology in gleaming laboratories. But there’s a side of pharmaceutical research that is ...