A House committee will hold a hearing this week scrutinizing whether National Institutes of Health animal research amounts to ...

Budkie wrote to ORI on Friday. “It is even worse that hundreds of rats were subjected to highly invasive procedures and killed for fraudulent experiments,” Budkie added. “This project took ...

For pet and lab mice, running wheels are a common feature, often used to encourage exercise. However, some scientists have argued that mice only run on these wheels because they live in cages and that ...

Eighty rats were placed in Skinner boxes (the glass-walled enclosures, developed by psychologist B. F. Skinner, widely used in behavioral experiments with animals) and trained to press a green ...

The experiments, conducted between 2022 and 2024, involved subjecting rats and mice to “extreme heat exposures,” simulated wildfire smoke, and conditions such as solitary confinement to gain ...

“NIAID should not be a jobs program for scientists. These types of animal experiments would never be funded by anyone in the private sector and would never be funded at all if taxpayers were not ...