Mice have remained the focal point for life sciences research for the past several decades. Their universality in biomedicine ...

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics.

There’s no scientific basis for the view that lab dogs are inherently different from pets, or that they were somehow not ...

Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric condition characterized by a fear of weight gain and reduced calorie consumption that can result in dangerous weight loss.

Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In ...

A human ear attached to a woman’s foot sounds like a stunt from a horror film, yet it is the centerpiece of a real, carefully planned medical rescue. In a world first, surgeons in China temporarily ...

The owner of a rescued lab dog considers if insights gleaned through animal research are enough to justify the practice.

These wasteful boondoggles add up. So do the programs that many Americans insist are important but refuse to reform.

Revolutionary-era smallpox, the still-mysterious ignition of the Black Death, a modern measles outbreak shaped by community identity and distrust, and the promise of genetics to build safer drugs—a ...

Baylen Out Loud airs December 30, 2025, as Baylen Dupree travels to the UK, tests a tic-reduction device, and shares family moments during her London trip ...