The agency is cutting animal testing of chemicals. Some scientists are concerned, but in the meantime the rats (and zebra ...

Approximately three quarters of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development — representing 1,000 ...

The need for laboratory rats has increased in the past 60 years and will likely continue to grow. In 1966, the Animal Welfare Act created stipulations for using large mammals such as monkeys or dogs ...

In Dr. Sergiu Pașca's research lab at Stanford University, the resident rats have clumps of human cells in their brains. Blow on a rat's whiskers and the human cells on the opposite side of its ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — Twelve Long-Evans rats from Millersville University in Lancaster County are looking for a new home after previously being subjects in a behavioral study course during the ...

Teaching rats to drive a tiny car around a laboratory had some far-reaching effects – it taught scientists a lot about the benefits of anticipating the joy brought by the things we love.