Many of us care for animals and feel empathy when they suffer. At the same time, many of us also accept their suffering and death when it happens in the name of science. How do people manage this ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

While pain and suffering in another being is, strictly speaking, unknowable, yet for practical purposes there are a number of lines of evidence of their presence and intensity which deserve attention.

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 University of Delaware’s Comparative Pathology Laboratory focuses on diagnostic surveillance for common and emerging diseases in animal species, including commercial broiler chicken flocks on the ...

A revised version of The National Research Council’s Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (the Guide) has been released as a pre-publication draft, the first revision of the Guide since ...

Countless millions of nonhuman animals (animals) of all sorts are used in a diverse array of laboratory research. Their treatment varies from being unspeakably inhumanely abused to being treated with ...