Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Callaway, a beagle retired from long-term flea and tick studies, ventures outside for the first time after arriving at Kindness ...

Before testing new therapies in animals, researchers now have a more efficient starting point—lab-grown canine muscle cells ...

Many of us care for animals and feel empathy when they suffer. At the same time, many of us also accept their suffering and death when it happens in the name of science. How do people manage this ...

Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” grown from human cells. R3 Bio, a billionaire-backed biotech startup, is ...

Recognition and Alleviation of Distress in Laboratory Animals aims to educate laboratory animal veterinarians; students, researchers, and investigators; animal care staff, as well as animal welfare ...

When Kelli Duncan first began her research as a PhD student she was terrified of birds. "I thought birds are going to be pecking out my eyes in the lab," remembers Duncan, who is now a biologist at ...

Six years ago, Mallory Cormier adopted a three-month-old New Zealand white rabbit with ears as long as celery stalks and a mohawk-like cowlick on his forehead. Cormier named him Chickpea, and when she ...