Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life in ...

What is an animal experiment? In Switzerland, external page animal welfare legislation defines what is considered an animal experiment. Any use of animals in the interest of finding answers to a ...

Animal experiments are subject to strict ethical and legal regulations. Every animal experiment in Switzerland requires a license and is reviewed carefully by the cantonal veterinary office and the ...

The government has announced plans to stop scientific experiments on animals, except in some rare situations. They say they want other testing methods to be used instead, including a greater use of ...

In a current publication, Professors Helene Richter and Melanie Dammhahn from the University of Münster – along with their colleagues Sylvia Kaiser (University of Münster) and Barbara Caspers ...

Even from a scientific point of view, using illegally captured animals doesn't make much sense. “In research, we try to keep the settings as standardised as possible. And of course, that includes the ...

Dr Robin Lovell-Badge and Prof Emma Robinson respond to an editorial on using new technologies to reduce the reliance on animal experiments I write in response to your editorial on animals in research ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The affectionate nature of beagles makes them suitable for use as test animals. Photo: Getty Images/izanbar Beagles are often used ...

Home Office annual figures report that animal experiments carried out in the UK fell by 5% in 2016. The statistics show that 3.94 million procedures were carried out in the course of scientific ...

Poole MP Neil Duncan-Jordan is backing a drive to end animal experiments in medical research. On Tuesday, May 27, World Animal Free Research Day, Mr Duncan-Jordan joined other MPs and peers in support ...