Animal Testing

Lawmakers, researchers, and peaceful activists all say they deplore violence committed in the name of animal rights. But laws that may label some protesters as “domestic terrorists” are upsetting activists.

U.S. law and U.S. agencies are both looking at ways to reduce the use of animals in labs.

The animal rights movement may set their sights on veterinarians, warn protectors of biomedical animal research.

In a nation where corporations are people and others want fetuses to be, a core of philosophers and attorneys are trying develop laws to declare animals “legal persons.”

Youth Ethics Summit gives students an understanding of how medical research works, which some say is critical to the pushback against animal rights activists.

Gavels and courtrooms are replacing placards and bullhorns, says the biomedical research community, as determined legal eagles work to increase animals’ rights and possibly even grant them "personhood."

A blue-ribbon panel sees the sun possibly setting on medical experiments using chimps, leading federal authorities to halt new awards but leave existing experiments in place.

"Project Nim," a documentary film examining the story of Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who learned to communicate with people using sign language, reveals more about people than other primates.

Scientists at Tel Aviv University are bioengineering tissues that can take the place of lab rats, saving untold lives.

Scientist recommends putting rodent lab subjects in varying conditions to get a better idea of how drug and medical products will perform in the real world.

Horrors! Yet another researcher recommends using animals other than rodents for lab tests.