The National Institutes of Health is moving away from animal research. The agency announced a new initiative this week to do less animal testing and expand alternative non-animal research methods ...

Known for their agile hands, the raccoon showed officers something else they needed to know: it's owner allegedly had meth pipes in the car. Shown on video, the raccoon held a pipe up to its mouth.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Pipes is a scholar and think tank CEO who writes on health care. In a desperate bid to claim fiscal discipline without ...

a professor in NYU's Center for Data Science -- first conducted a series of experiments with laboratory rats. The animals were trained to seek out a water source in a box with several ...

Sydney - The preserved body of northern Australia's most famous rogue crocodile may offer scientists a unique glimpse of how contamination from uranium mining affects wildlife, researchers said on ...

“Our children aren’t lab rats that we can study to keep re-implementing these exams back and forth,” she said, adding that the ministry has committed to strengthening classroom-based ...

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Genetically manipulated strains of mice are essential to the advancement of biomedical research and are the most widely used mammalian animal models. As it is generally accepted that infections of ...