The number of primates and primate parts imported into the UK for laboratory animal experiments has nearly tripled in a year to more than 6,700, figures suggest. Experts warned the steep rise risks ...

Two Nobel laureates among 400 scientists who sign letter rejecting claims that use of primates is no longer medically useful More than 400 scientists including two Nobel laureates have signed a letter ...

SCIENTISTS investigating BSE for the Government were accused yesterday of failing to conduct obvious experiments which help establish whether the deadly brain condition could be transmitted to humans.

Sir David Attenborough has been accused of being seduced by “pseudoscience”, as researchers hit back at his demand for an end to the use of certain types of “cruel” brain experiments on primates. The ...

Large numbers of primates in UK laboratories are being subjected to “cruel and distressing experiments” that are “frivolous”, a leading animal rights organisation has said. Despite a law that is meant ...

OXFORD University has agreed to release information about primate experiments, following a challenge by an animal rights organisation. The university initially refused to release the information ...

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical testing on animals.

Some claim animal experiments are not necessary. But virtually every medical advance of the last century depended on animals, often to provide the fundamental underpinning of understanding which paved ...

Cambridge University has received UK Government approval for a controversial laboratory in which it intends to carry out brain experiments on monkeys. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott ruled in ...

Cambridge University has conceded its controversial primate laboratory may never be built because of high costs. The UK Government approved plans for the £30m neuroscience centre on Friday, to the ...

Huntington Life Sciences has been targeted over their use of animals in research. The number of experiments performed on animals in the UK has risen to the highest level since 1994, including a sharp ...

An Oregon lab with a history of animal mistreatment has been accused of performing 'cruel' experiments on pregnant monkeys including forcing them to eat lard and turning them into nicotine and alcohol ...