The National Institutes of Health announced on Monday that the biomedical agency will no longer award funding to new grant ...

Researchers at Auburn University shed new light on how dogs' personalities influence their reactions to television, revealing that traits like excitability and anxiety determine how canines engage ...

Animal studies are of limited usefulness to human health because they are of poor quality and their results often conflict with human trials, argue researchers in a study online in the British ...

To minimize the number of animal-to-human research failures, however, the authors recommend that animal studies be conducted using the same high standards as those used in human trials.

Nature - Animal studies must be useful, says public. The European Commission (EC) responded last month to 'Stop Vivisection', a European Citizens' Initiative to phase out animal testing, which was ...

Designing animal studies to improve research reproducibility and reduce animal use Date: June 3, 2020 Source: University of Bern Summary: At the invitation of the University of Bern, international ...

Increased collaboration between zoos and sound researchers could open new frontiers in bioacoustics, according to a new paper ...

Animal studies are often considered a first step in finding new drugs and treatments for human diseases, but a new review has discovered that precious few actually produce real-world therapies.

The study, published in Nature Methods, details how the technology was developed in order to eliminate any potential discrepancies in behaviors from previous studies where the animals have been ...