Kaplan is the author of “Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research.” We woke in Boston before daybreak as usual, and Hammy — my beagle, who was once a lab dog ...

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Maher, an honorary director of PETA, has teamed up with the animal rights organization to produce a documentary about America’s multibillion-dollar experimentation industry. The host ...

A recent survey shows 80% of U.S. adults want the U.S. government to commit to a plan to phase out experiments on animals Washington, D.C. — A new survey shows that Americans’ attitudes toward ...

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, ...

There is one specific task that stress researchers who conduct animal experiments need to be particularly skilled at. This also applies to researchers who want to improve the conditions in which ...

Huron, N.Y. — Animal advocates are teaming up to protest a company they say is one of the largest breeders of animals used for experimentation in the U.S. Members of nonprofit organizations Beagle ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

For two years, Lindsay Gray managed a colony of roughly 700 mice bred for digestion research, performing surgeries, health checks and genetic testing. When California issued a ‘shelter in place’ order ...

How should researchers design and write up their work to avoid needless and unethical waste of live animals? Guidelines published this week will make the task a lot easier. The 20-point checklist is ...

Unfortunately, the use of nonhuman animals in laboratories has always been entrusted to people in the habit of ardently shutting out criticism. Research bureaucrats, for example-- those who determine ...

Mezrich is professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin and holds the Mark A. Fischer Chair in Transplantation. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seeks to end all federally funded animal ...