The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is shifting away from animal testing in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs, favoring more effective, human-relevant ...

Researchers have developed a method to extract living cells from feces that they say could help conservationists better ...

Understanding how genes influence complex behaviors remains one of biology's most fascinating challenges. Now, however, in a recent study, researchers have compiled a comprehensive dataset documenting ...

The move comes after lawmakers sought to force the agency to update regulations that would allow alternatives to animal ...

A team of over 150 scientists has achieved what once seemed impossible: a complete wiring and activity map of a tiny section of a mammalian brain. This feat, part of the MICrONS Project, rivals the ...

Cruelty Free International welcomes major shift towards humane, modern approaches to drug development and testing ...

Though research on sexual experience in nonhuman animals is limited to primates and rodents, there's reason to think that ...

Studying the early development of human embryos is challenging due to ethical constraints and technical difficulties.

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with high prevalence, especially in children. Current treatments like topical ...

Huang and colleagues examined neural responses in mouse anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) during a discrimination-avoidance task. The authors present useful findings that ACC neurons encode primarily ...

Rivers are often thought of as the epitome of natural stability, flowing tirelessly toward the sea or larger bodies of water. Yet, some rivers defy this expectation by reversing their course, flowing ...