While Catharine Krebs was working in a human-genetics laboratory during her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles, there was a line that she got used to seeing at the end of papers: “These ...
LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...
A recent op-ed in The Hill praising the National Institutes of Health’s new initiative to promote human-based technologies as a “major victory for animal ethics in science” oversimplifies a far more ...
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 ...
The use of animals in science research has a long-storied history of success; almost every modern-day medical drug or treatment was either first developed or discovered through the use of animals.
The National Institutes of Health recently announced a landmark initiative to expand human-based science while reducing animal use. The world’s largest funder of biomedical and public health research ...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is following in the FDA’s footsteps—away from animal testing. The NIH plans to establish a new office meant to develop nonanimal methods for biomedical research ...
The Animal Research Facility located in the ABSL-3 facility of the vivarium in the Saint Louis University Doisy Research Center offers sophisticated equipment for the optical imaging of small animals.
Europe urged to commit €1bn to animal-free biomedical research as Brussels faces pressure to match US investment in non-animal methods ...
Lon Kendall, DVM, PhD, DACLAM - received his veterinary degree from Colorado State University in 1994, completed a residency in laboratory animal medicine in 1997, and completed a PhD in veterinary ...
Editor’s Note: This article is the result of a partnership between The Post and Courier and CBS News. A federal health agency that has promised to scale back its animal research has drawn the ...