Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled for elimination this year, and some studies ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

A study has again concluded that the possibility of the coronavirus leaking from a laboratory is low. The research suggests that COVID-19 was a virus commonly found in animal hosts before spreading to ...

The use of fibre-optic drones in frontline areas is leaving debris in fields that can become traps for animals and birds and ...

Most pandemic viruses that have jumped from animals to humans do not show signs of special adaptations to infect people, except the 1977 influenza outbreak, which was likely “sparked by a laboratory ...

The world's first lab-based tick feeding system for bush ticks, developed by researchers at the University of Melbourne, has transformed the study of ticks and how they transmit disease. The novel, ...

There is no evolutionary signal suggesting that these viruses were being “pre-adapted” for humans prior to their outbreaks. Instead, measurable changes in selection typically appeared only after ...

Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic ...

Learn how scientists identified genetic clues that distinguish natural viral spillovers from lab-handled viruses — and why ...

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 ...

There’s more than one bacterial culprit for a disease that’s been eating away at elk hooves in the Pacific Northwest. A new study from Washington State University found that at least two separate ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eats steak for breakfast, and has been accused by family members of blending up mice and chickens to feed his hawks and cutting off a dead whale’s head to bring it home. But he ...