Feinberg Professor emerita Eva Redei’s research had two key components: vats of water and “depressed” rats. Redei found that ...

A Macalester College alum and medical doctor who has spent decades trying to end the use of animals in scientific research says the St. Paul school is lying when it claims to use the highest ethical ...

The National Institutes of Health is moving away from animal research. The agency announced a new initiative this week to do less animal testing and expand alternative non-animal research methods ...

About 15 percent of USDA’s workforce has accepted the Trump administration’s buyout to leave the agency, including more than ...

During a Feb. 6 House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing titled: "Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer Funded Animal Cruelty," earlier this month, Justin Goodman ...

The nonprofit testified before the House Oversight Committee last month during the hearing, "Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer-Funded Animal Cruelty." While ...

The rise of AI promises a lot of big changes, and one of them is going to be warmly welcomed by mice, rats ... animal testing for the last 12 years. Hartung says that he and his lab have worked ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A robotic rat learned how to befriend real rats using AI. The wheeled rat was designed ...

That's because the majority of the lab rats seem to prefer driving to their ... Want to hear more fun animal stories? Let us know at shortwave@npr.org — we read every email.

During last week's hearing—which was titled "Transgender Lab Rats and Poisoned Puppies: Oversight of Taxpayer-Funded Animal Cruelty"—Mace said the WCW study reported that millions of dollars ...

Lambert and her team have for years now been teaching lab rats how to drive as a way of studying the relationship between animal environments, stress, and the development of cognition and new skills.