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 ...

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 ...

Voice over: What’s your view? Here are two very different perspectives on this question: Is it ever right to experiment on animals? James: My name’s James and I believe testing on animals ...

Is the use of animals in research experiments ethical? Animal research also aims to contribute towards preventing or at least alleviating human suffering. Refraining from animal testing also means ...

The toxicity of chemicals is also investigated using animal research. It is a legal requirement that all active substances are tested in animal experiments for effectiveness and side effects. There ...

For instance, humans share about 95% of their genome with mice, the most common laboratory animal. Animals are therefore often used as a models of human where legislation or ethical considerations do ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. We then determined mean strain differences in 36 commonly assessed behavioral measures to compare between-experiment variation for the ...

In addition to this, the researchers measured the level of the stress hormone corticosterone in the animals' tail feathers. "Our experiments show that stress responses can spread beyond ...

There are thousands of animal scientific experiments carried out each year The number of times the law overseeing scientific experiments on animals has been broken in Northern Ireland has risen.

At least one researcher is no longer employed at the University of Michigan after it was found that researchers conducted animal experiments that were deemed fraudulent. Dr. Chung Owyang ...