Angelika Rehrig, Louis DiVincenti, Deborah Napolitano, and David McAdam The psychological well-being of laboratory primates is enhanced when they are allowed to voluntarily participate in their own care through a process called positive reinforcement training...

Three years ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would no longer support experimentation on chimpanzees. The NIH stated that all of the chimps that it “owns” or supports would be eligible...

AWI’s Laboratory Animal Advisor, Dr. Joanna Makowska, has updated AWI’s database on the refinement of housing, husbandry, care, and use of animals in research. More than 600 new entries were recently added, bringing the total...

AWI recently attended the annual meeting of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) in Baltimore—the largest meeting on laboratory animals in the United States. At this year’s meeting, several presentations focused on solving...

AWI congratulates the most recent Refinement Grant recipients: Dr. Brianna Gaskill, Purdue University: Investigating the link between laboratory personnel’s professional quality of life and the provision of environmental enrichment to animals under their care. Environmental...

by Bret R. Tallent and Dr. Jonathan Lifshitz In this project, funded by an AWI Refinement Grant, we tested whether raising male mice in partially divided cages affected aggression and behavioral performance from weaning through...

Megan R. LaFollette, Dr. Marguerite E. O’Haire, Dr. Sylvie Cloutier, and Dr. Brianna N. Gaskill Laboratory rats may experience distress during handling, which can negatively impact their welfare. Rat tickling, a handling technique that mimics...

A team of scientists has developed an advanced computer algorithm that can predict the toxicity of new chemicals better than standard animal tests. This breakthrough has the potential to spare millions of animals from having...

“I feel like a chump.” So said Dr. Jake McDonald, chief science officer at Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the New York Times , after he learned that Volkswagen had...

A decades-long Agricultural Research Service (ARS) project has intentionally killed untold hundreds of kittens. According to the White Coat Waste Project, which exposed the study, the Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, feeds two-month-old...