Equipped with a rodent version of a Cybertruck, these driving rats reveal that positive experiences may sculpt the brain just as powerfully as stressful ones ...

VISAKHAPATNAM: A complete halt in the air transport of laboratory animals within India has emerged as a major roadblock for scientific research, causing delays, ...

When we are anxious, we tend to anticipate trauma. In academia and beyond, there has been a rise in trauma studies and ...

Millions are spent to clean up after the birds and to install spikes and nets to keep them from fouling transit stations and bridges. Are birth control pills next?

According to newly-released animal testing data, over 3.7 million animals were used in Canada in 2024, an alarming 18.5 ...

Bivalves—animals like mussels, clams and oysters—might be a more familiar sight in a restaurant than a lab. But it turns out ...

Remember the film where a growling chimpanzee sinks its teeth into one of the activists trying to save it, marking them out as patient zero in a zombie epidemic? 28 Days Later is just one of many ...

At many breeding facilities, rats are housed at relatively high densities until they are 5 weeks old, at which point they are either shipped for research or rehoused at standard cage densities ...

Eight lab monkeys escaped and seven were killed, showing why animal experiments should give way to better, safer testing methods.

This valuable study provides solid evidence for deficits in aversive taste learning and taste coding in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorders. Specifically, the authors found that Shank3 knockout ...