(Nanowerk Spotlight) Preventing animal epidemics is of paramount importance because they can directly impact food and nutritional safety, the economy, and can lead to outbreaks of zoonotic diseases ...

Find out how the UK is leading the way in replacing animals in science with strategies that promote non-animal research methods.

Across the planet, animals are increasingly suffering from chronic illnesses once seen only in humans. Cats, dogs, cows, and even marine life are facing rising rates of cancer, diabetes, arthritis, ...

A cell of the ichthyosporean C. perkinsii showing distinct signs of polarity, with clear cortical localization of the nucleus before the first cleavage. Microtubules are shown in magenta, DNA in blue, ...

Why do human look like humans, rather than like chimps? Although we share 99% of our DNA with chimps, our faces and bodies look quite different from each other. While human body shape and appearance ...

A new study has shed light on just how few treatments tested on animals are approved for use in humans. Among all of the 122 systematic reviews the team analyzed, 50% of the included therapies that ...