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 ...

But headless animals called brittle stars ... Early in the 10-month-long experiment, the animals stayed hidden when the lights went out. But over time, the animals made such a connection between ...

"These are, of course, the sorts of regulations that apply to every single vertebrate animal study conducted in the USA." In addition to having a experiment that is "well designed, appropriately ...

The Eastern Virginia Medical School has received an official warning from the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding the care of animals undergoing experiments. The notice, issued by the USDA's ...