The US National Academy of Sciences released a report in 2007 envisioning a future in which animals would largely disappear from toxicity testing programs. The report, drafted by a panel of experts, ...

Members of Congress exploded Thursday over reports that taxpayer money has paid for experiments using “transgender lab rats,” ...

1, 1991 The issue of animal experiments is straightforward ... exhausting wild populations to state that alternatives to testing on animals must be used when available and that the number of ...

As an extreme example, a pesticide undergoes about 30 animal tests, costing about $20 million and consuming more than 10,000 mice, rats, rabbits, and dogs over five years. About 20 kilograms of the ...

During a House subcommittee hearing last week, Republican Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina shared findings from a ...

The Animals Act of 1986, for example, insists that no animal experiments be conducted if there is a realistic alternative. Testing on animals now requires three Home Office licences - for the ...

Goodman also blamed "institutional inertia" and "circular reasoning" – that agencies had always experimented on animals – for not innovating outside animals, while Locke said feds were "passive and ...

House lawmakers on Thursday introduce d bipartisan legislation that would eliminate U.S. funding of experiments on animals ...