A recent study suggests that the chemical industry will have to spend €9.5 billion (US$13.6 billion) on safety testing over the next decade.
The editorial in today's Financial Times about responding to the appalling animal rights extremist attacks in Switzerland is spot on.
Why is the concept of animal research so difficult to grasp?
Government funding for alternatives research, through NC3Rs, has nearly doubled this year compared with 2008.
The National Centre for the Three Rs has produced a handy 'beginners guide' to the 3Rs - Refinement, Reduction and Replacement - and how they can benefit science, innovation and animal welfare.
The law of unintended consequences may have led to saving rabbits at the expense of a two incredible species: a prehistoric invertebrate and a small bird with one of the most impressive known migrations.
A book to be published soon promises a considered, less polarised approach to the animal rights debate.
Researchers have identified a cheap, commonly-used compound that, applied vaginally, can stop monkeys being infected with a monkey...
Today the Agriculture committee in the European Parliament gets evidence from experts in the research community about animal research.
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