Zoos and aquariums have an enormous global reach and hence an ability to craft
meaningful conservation action for threatened species, implement educational strategies to …

Gene therapies offer promising therapeutic alternatives for many disorders that currently lack
efficient treatment options. Due to their chemical nature and physico-chemical properties …

Birch and colleagues have developed an important and useful framework for evaluating the
evidence for sentience–namely, the capacity to experience pain, distress and suffering, in …

This paper critically discusses blind spots in AI ethics. AI ethics discourses typically stick to a
certain set of topics concerning principles evolving mainly around explainability, fairness …

Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous in the environment and humans are inevitably exposed
to them. However, the effects of MPs in the human digestive environment are largely …

Cardiac fibroblasts are the major producers of extracellular matrix (ECM) to form infarct scar.
We hypothesized that fibroblasts undergo a spectrum of phenotype states over the course of …

Welfare of lab animals has two major problems, which are general maintenance and
treatment technique during the experimental procedures. These problems are related to the …

Background Tick control is a worldwide challenge due to its resistance to acaricides.
Essential oils (EOs) and isolated compounds (EOCs) are potential alternatives for tick …

This focus issue of Lab Animal coincides with a tipping point in biomedical research. For the
first time, the scale of the reproducibility and translatability crisis is widely understood …

Although oxygen (O2) is essential for aerobic life, it can also be an important source of
cellular damage. Supra-physiological levels of O2 determine toxicity due to exacerbated …