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Use of animals in pain research has "limited value" and should be replaced by newer technologies, a panel of UK experts says.

New drugs are routinely tested on mice and other animals before humans.

But why are some results translatable to humans and some not?

LA JOLLA, Calif. -- The effects of traumatic blood loss may be eased, paradoxically, by thickening the plasma that remains, researchers here are suggested.

Mantis shrimp can see the world in a way that had never been observed in any animal before, researchers report.

The discovery suggests that the ability to perceive circular polarized light may lend mantis shrimp a secret mode of communication.

The Agriculture Department has ordered the largest meat recall in its history -- 143 million pounds of beef, a California meatpacker's entire production for the past two years -- because the company did not prevent ailing animals from entering the U.S. food supply, officials said yesterday.