The field of biological research has long relied on conventional model animals to unravel complex biological and ...

LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

The energy invested in animal reproduction is as much as 10 times greater than previously estimated when the metabolic load of bearing and caring for offspring is accounted for, according to a new ...

"Rodents are the most widely utilized models in biomedical research...The majority of oncology drugs that proved successful in treating tumors within rodents fail to have the same response in humans, ...