The safety tests that the government says will no longer use animals by the end of this year include the practice of giving ...

Gut microbes are essential partners that help digest food, produce vitamins and train the immune system. They can also pass ...

Behavioral traits get passed on via an animal’s genetics, but a new study reveals that the microbiome can pass them on too, ...

Millions of animals used in the UK labourites for testing chemicals, medicines and cosmetics could soon see end to their ...

A newly discovered CPD gene mutation causes hearing loss, and scientists found that Viagra and arginine may help reverse it.

All animal experiments were performed on mice and zebrafish that were either bred or genetically modified to quickly develop cancer. Would this same effect be expected in wild-type animals? Would the ...

One hundred years after the heroic journey to Nome, scientists reveal how Balto's DNA explains his incredible endurance and health.

Humans have long experimented with nature, bending evolution to serve aesthetics, science, and curiosity. Some animals have ...

"Brainless does not necessarily mean neuron-less," Simon Sprecher, a professor of neurobiology at the University of Fribourg ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud ...

The Hippo signaling pathway that helps control tissue size in animals and malfunctions in cancers already existed before ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that ...