Animal testing remains an important part of pharmaceutical research, vaccine development and medical science in India. But a proposed overhaul of the rules governing laboratory experiments has ...

Animal welfare groups urge withdrawal of India's draft animal-experimentation rules, fearing dilution of protections and conflicts with existing law.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Governments have announced plans to reduce the number of animals, such as mice, used in experimental procedures. Last November, ...

The National Institutes of Health has come under fire for continuing to fund experiments on dogs and cats, despite leadership's recent pledge to reduce reliance on animal testing. In April, NIH ...

PETA said that any changes to the regulations governing experiments on animals will lead to an increase in cruelty towards them. It is worth noting that the government intends to amend these ...

The draft Rules on animal experiments seek to regulate the use of animals in research, including the procedures permitted and safeguards against suffering. What experiments are allowed, who authorises ...

Animal protection is being redefined to serve Hindutva politics by allowing trade and diluting the rights of some creatures ...

In early phases of drug development, new active substances are tested in animals—alongside numerous other experimental methods. Researchers face a dilemma: on the one hand, for ethical reasons, they ...

The Trump administration is moving to restrict animal experimentation. That is, the practice of trying out new medicines, cosmetics, and other treatments on animals before trying them on humans. The ...

The group gathered to support animal-free science– one year to the day since the government published its Replacing Animals in Science Strategy.

When biologists study cooperation in animals, they usually offer just a single task at a time. But what happens when animals can choose among several opportunities to work together? Biologists at ...