Humans and other animals are relatively similar. Animal experimentation can therefore provide a base for experiments with human subjects or even replace them. Animal experimentation also improves our ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

The animals, too, have their own interests ... observations make research more effective by improving experimental design and reducing duplication of effort. Phenotypes relevant to welfare ...

To obtain this, you must apply to the cantonal veterinary office via animex-ch, the electronic animal experiment management system. Your application must describe in detail the experimental objectives ...

This has led animal rights activists to increasingly challenge animal experiments on scientific grounds, questioning their validity to inform on human disease. It has been shown, that preclinical ...

Experiments on timing in rats show that they can estimate short time intervals fairly precisely, but as the interval increases, their accuracy decreases (Gibbon 1977). How accurate are animals at ...

The experiments, funded by pharmaceutical companies and government programs, were approved by the lab's internal Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). However, critics argue the ...