Determined to end animal-based experiments they describe as immoral and ineffective, animal rights activists declared a major ...

Oregon Health & Science University’s board of directors is set to vote on a proposal that could ultimately turn the ...

Thomas Kuhn, the 20th-century historian of science who coined the phrase “paradigm shift,” had a name for such breakdowns in ...

Following years of advocacy by the Physicians Committee, other groups, and people across Oregon, the Oregon National Primate Research Center is one step closer to closing.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine applauds the Oregon Health & Science University Board of Directors’ approval of a resolution authorizing negotiations with the National Institutes of ...

This story is part of a collaboration with The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina. A federal health agency that has promised to scale back its animal research has drawn the attention of ...

Emory University’s National Primate Research Center — formerly Yerkes — has, for decades, sold the public and federal funders on the illusion that its experiments on primates drive scientific progress ...

This story is part of a collaboration with The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina. A federal health agency that has promised to scale back its animal research has drawn the attention of ...

Researchers set up a series of tea party-like experiments with Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo who had provided decades worth of scientific knowledge before his death last year. Their findings, ...

Like most others who heard the tragic news, I was saddened to learn that five monkeys were shot and killed by sheriffs last week, and two others shot by area residents this week, when they escaped a ...