The safety tests that the government says will no longer use animals by the end of this year include the practice of giving ...

Animal experiments in the UK peaked at 4.14 million in 2015 driven mainly by a big increase at the time in genetic modification experiments. By 2020, the number had fallen sharply to 2.88 million as ...

Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers have now developed a transformative approach that identifies stretches of DNA that two ...

Gut microbes are essential partners that help digest food, produce vitamins and train the immune system. They can also pass ...

All animal experiments were performed on mice and zebrafish that were either bred or genetically modified to quickly develop cancer. Would this same effect be expected in wild-type animals? Would the ...

Animal breeding has traditionally focused on improving mean trait performance; however, contemporary research increasingly highlights the significance of genetic variation not only in trait means but ...

A newly discovered CPD gene mutation causes hearing loss, and scientists found that Viagra and arginine may help reverse it.