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 ...

The term 'animal model' describes a living, non-human animal which is used during scientific research for the purposes of investigating human disease. The objectives of the research involving an ...

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 ...

Too often, preclinical successes are followed by clinical failures. And all clinical failures hurt. Perhaps the most painful failures occur in trials that require large patient populations and long ...

Animal testing remains to be a vital part of modern preclinical testing. While the ethics of the use of animals in medical testing remains keenly debated, it is still generally accepted worldwide and ...

When developing drugs, we rely on animal models to test drugs in an entire system before first-in-human studies. However, animals aren’t human and interspecies differences in pharmacology, physiology, ...