With the closure of a groundbreaking lab working on alternatives to animal testing, the researcher behind the project says ...

Experts across Canada are calling on the federal government to ban the importing of primates for biomedical testing.

Canada banned the use of animals for cosmetic testing last year, but it is still legal to use live primates for drug testing ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has also been testing milk for signs of H5N1 in dairy cows. Canada has had no ...

A group of over 80 Canadian academics is urging the federal government to halt the importation of endangered macaque monkeys ...

Lisa Jones-Engel, PETA’s senior science adviser on primate experimentation, said that even after the investigations in the ...

This marked "the first detection of a presumed human case" of H5 in Canada, authorities in British Columbia said. View on ...

However, a UK-based defender of animal testing said claims of a divide between scientists ... ‘I don’t want to offend the animal researchers here’ (Frank Michael Photography, Windsor, Canada) She told ...

There are no indications that H5N1 bird flu would spark a pandemic, but experts urged preparedness including stockpiling vaccines and using wastewater testing.

Staff have complained that animal testing is being rushed and is causing needless suffering and deaths, according to the news agency. The BBC has contacted Neuralink and the US government for comment.

Health officials in British Columbia have reported the first presumptive case of H5 avian influenza in a human in Canada.