New draft rules on animal experiments outline permitted research, 3Rs safeguards, oversight, and gaps affecting ethics, ...

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 ...

India’s draft animal-experimentation rules would replace 1968 and 1998 regulations and make severity of suffering the basis for approvals. But critics say they could let institutions clear ...

Recent draft rules in India threaten advancements in non-animal testing for drug development and safety. The new regulations may prioritize animal testing over innovative human-based methods, despite ...

PETA said that any changes to the regulations governing experiments on animals will lead to an increase in cruelty towards ...

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 ...

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 ...

MORE than one million tests have been conducted on animals in Scotland since 2021, including experiments on dogs and monkeys ...