Harvard Medical School also credits animal experiments with developing breakthroughs in treating diabetes, high cholesterol, ...

"Earlier versions of the chapters in this volume were first given as contributions to a workshop on human experimentation held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London on 3-4 ...

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein served as a chilling prophecy of the ethical dilemmas that science could pose. From the Tuskegee Syphilis Study to the CIA’s MKUltra program and the recent ...

It sounds like a strange online myth, but scientists in Japan have been studying whether mammals, including humans, can absorb oxygen through the gut. This phenomenon, often called butt breathing, is ...

Sure, psychological and medical experiments can have adverse effects. Tim Skellett has been on "both sides--as a subject and as an experimenter." He explains at The Guardian: "When I first went to ...