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There is an ongoing debate about the value of animal experiments to inform medical
practice, yet there are limited data on how well therapies developed in animal
studies translate to humans. We aimed to assess 2 measures of translation across�…

Refining the housing and husbandry of laboratory rats is an important goal, both for
ethical reasons and to allow better quality research. We conducted a mapping review
of 1,017 studies investigating potential refinements of housing and husbandry of the�…

While pet ownership is normative in many occidental countries, whether humans'
proximal contacts with pets have implications for attitudes and behaviors toward
other (non pet) animals, nature, and fellow humans, has received limited empirical�…

Simple Summary Some basic and preclinical biomedical research models require
the use of animals. It is not always clear which model is best suited to a project—
animals or models based on, eg, in vitro or in silico methods? This choice is�…

Life in contemporary cities is often dangerous for stray cats, with strikingly low
survival rates. In several countries, trap-neuter-return (TNR) programs have been
employed to control urban stray cat populations. Management of stray cats in urban�…

There is a large gender gap in support for animal experimentation, with men
endorsing this practice more than women. However, little is known about the
psychological factors associated with these differences. Drawing on a large and�…

In most of the studies on animal cruelty, animal harm is considered as evidence of
mental illness, a sign of psychopathology, or at least, of some emotional deficits. We
propose to widen the perspective on animal harm and to focus on an institutional�…

Simple Summary The attention of scientists and citizens is increasingly focused on
the issue of animals as sentient beings. This inherent quality of animals, although
recognized by many countries at a regulatory level, if not well defined in scientific�…

Simple Summary Under the term Culture of Care, procedures have been developed
to reduce the distress caused to animals and humans by animal experimentation. It
has been recognized that animal welfare is human welfare and vice versa. Here, we�…

Three groups of participants (largely recruited from the UK) completed a survey to
examine attitudes to the use of animals in biomedical research, after reading the lay
(N= 182) or technical (N= 201) summary of a research project, or no summary (N�…