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 ...

LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...

Preclinical testing is vital for assessing the safety profiles and potential efficacy of new therapeutics in development. Animal testing is one of two routes usually selected for the preclinical stage ...

CRISPR-Cas9 technology is used to knock out or modify DNA in research mice to study disease phenotypes and develop new treatments. CRISPR mice and rats are offered by Charles River, which uses genetic ...

In the complex etiology of AD, in addition to environmental conditions, genetic factors play a major role. Twin studies support the notion that 70–80% of the risk to develop AD is determined by ...

The energy invested in animal reproduction is as much as 10 times greater than previously estimated when the metabolic load of bearing and caring for offspring is accounted for, according to a new ...