Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) today recognizes eight Refinement Research Award and Implementing Refinement Grant recipients who are working to improve the lives of animals used in ...

The MLAS degree is designed to significantly enhance students' credentials and competitiveness for career advancement within the field of laboratory animal science, as well as strengthen their ...

A good and worthy animal protection measure died back in March at the hands of the Colorado Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, which killed it with a 5-4 vote. Senate Bill 67 would have ...

AWI’s Laboratory Animal Refinement and Enrichment Forum (LAREF) is an online discussion forum where individuals working with animals in research share their ideas and experiences related to improving ...

Medical schools are moving away from using live animals in laboratories, according to a survey published in the November issue of the journal Academic Medicine. Of the 125 schools in the United States ...

The headaches the lab was experiencing with their previous biometric reader were familiar to many biometric users. The core problem has been that conventional biometric technologies rely on ...

Recognition and Alleviation of Distress in Laboratory Animals aims to educate laboratory animal veterinarians; students, researchers, and investigators; animal care staff, as well as animal welfare ...

Two research projects run through the Purdue veterinary school have faced claims of mistreatment of animals in the experiment, reportedly leading to suspension of both projects for varying lengths of ...

The death of animal test subjects in a UC Berkeley laboratory in 2011, recently cited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sparked a protest Wednesday including 15 UC Berkeley students and animal ...