A finger-length fish has reignited a long-running debate about self-awareness, cognition and how much we’ve underestimated ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its new 2025 Guidelines on the replacement or removal of animal tests for the quality control of biological products.

There are a lot of hot-button questions when it comes to the ethics of scientific research, but the perennial issue of animal testing seems to incite fever-pitched anger on both side of the debate.

Around 348 B.C., Aristotle took a two-year trip to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to study animals in a lagoon. Along with observing the creatures in their natural habitat and surmising, among ...

Millions of animals each year are killed in U.S. laboratories as part of medical training and chemical, food, drug and cosmetic testing, according to the non-profit animal rights organization People ...

For thousands of years, humans have studied animals’ bodies to better understand our own. But using other animals as a proxy for humans is far from perfect. There are ethical issues for one, and they ...

The push to abandon animal testing is gaining momentum, driven by the realization that it is costly, unreliable and ...

Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...

Scientists at L’Oréal have developed a faster and more reliable method for identifying cosmetic allergens using an advanced ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...

The Beagle Freedom Project is transforming a 30-acre property in Oklahoma that used to be an animal testing facility into Freedom Fields Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...