To this day, animal testing remains one of the most controversial issues in animal rights. Activists have been fighting ...

Well before a human receives the first dose of an experimental drug, it’s evaluated in an animal to test for toxicity. Monkeys are often chosen for their genetic similarities to humans, and safe ...

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 ...

Sentient director Tony Jones discusses his documentary about the ethics of animal testing and the tough questions we have to ...

A vaccine under development at the University at Buffalo has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly variant of the virus that causes bird flu. In the study, scientists describe a ...

The illustration, above, shows the experimental bird flu vaccine platform. The H5 and N1 proteins attach via his-tag (teal coil) to cobalt ions (red plug) within the cobalt-porphyrin-phospholipid ...