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 ...

Chris Magee, head of policy and media for Understanding ... the time has come for us to rethink the use of animal experiments. "Non-animal testing methods are more human-relevant, and often ...

The Animals Act of 1986, for example, insists that no animal experiments be conducted if there is a realistic alternative. Testing on animals now requires three Home Office licences - for the ...

If an animal is used in multiple experiments in succession, it is counted multiple times. 2 ETH Zurich is working with other universities to conduct several dedicated research projects involving ...

Of these, just 48% involved genetically "normal" animals ... "experiments" and did not include these GM breeding programmes. The report also showed a sharp reduction in the number procedures to ...

The National Institutes of Health, under President Joe Biden, has spent millions of dollars funding experiments where ... to cutting federally funded animal testing. Musk’s medical device ...

A new paper provides a stark reminder that the virus responsible for COVID-19 is still spreading, with 9 animals out of 47 testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 at a zoo in Brazil. It's likely that the ...

“It is even worse that hundreds of rats were subjected to highly invasive procedures and killed for fraudulent experiments,” Budkie added. “This project took the lives of animals to produce ...