Animal testing

The story of Michele Fallon falling ill after a truck carrying laboratory animals crashed in Pennsylvania has led to conspiracy theories online.

"The last thing Glynn said to me was 'I have never felt so ill, I wish that I had the vaccine,'" Glynn Steel's wife Emma said.

Samson spent eight years in a cage at Envigo, a massive international distributor of dogs used in experiments.

PETA announced on Thursday that Ford funded a university study that euthanized pigs and used them for crash testing, going against its ban on animal testing.

A claim that the space agency tested drugs, including marijuana, on spiders has resurfaced on Twitter.

The White Coat Waste Project said a Freedom of Information Act request showed the testing of beagles took place, and that the dogs were eventually euthanized.

The National Institutes of Health has hiked spending on animal experiments carried out abroad by almost a quarter in the last two years.

"Could a Chinese lab worker have gotten infected or inadvertent leakage have touched off the outbreak in Wuhan?" the Washington Post editorial board asked.

In a letter to NIH director Francis Collins, and shared with Newsweek, the actress says animal experiments have not yielded a "single treatment for humans in any mental or physical health area."

James Cromwell, the actor from 'Babe', was arrested Thursday on the Texas A&M campus at a PETA protest.

"They earned their freedom. Let them go to a sanctuary," surgeon and healthcare columnist Eugene Gu said.

Testing drugs might just get a whole lot easier.

California might be the first state to have a law against testing cosmetics on animals.

First ever entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip collects data on how strongly the heart is beating.

Researchers from Japan took stem cells taken from a mouse's gums.

Biodefense research used thousands of monkeys for painful experiments after 9/11.