While the animal research industry continues to breed, buy, cage, torture, and kill sentient beings, human-relevant science is gaining momentum and proving it’s better for everyone. Here are highlights in non-animal and human-relevant science from the past month: riseforanimals.org/news/sci-new...

Non-Animal & Human-Relevant Research News: October 2026

October 2026 NAMs news: Global regulators call for alternatives to animal testing across the medicine lifecycle; human intestinal organoids for drug testing; a lab model of human digestion and absorpt...

riseforanimals.org

Researchers were awarded for butt-breathing experiments involving mice, pigs, and rats. But behind the absurdity? Invasive procedures, profound suffering, and death. Learn more: riseforanimals.org/news/butt-br...

Researchers Force Animals to “Butt Breathe”

Researchers won an Ig Nobel Prize for “butt breathing” experiments on mice, pigs, and rats. Behind the absurdity were invasive procedures, suffering, and death.

riseforanimals.org

NIH says it's moving biomedical research toward human-based science. But it continues funding a system built specifically to keep primate experimentation going. Our tax dollars shouldn't perpetuate a system science needs to move beyond. Read more + take action: riseforanimals.org/news/nih-fun...

NIH Is Building the Future—and Funding the Past

NIH is investing in human-based science while still funding seven National Primate Research Centers. Here's why it's time to move beyond monkey experiments.

riseforanimals.org

Latest animal research news: 🐶 Ridglan animal advocates appear in court 💸 Congresswoman redirects campaign donations from Marshall BioResources' CEO 🔎 Questions surround pigs’ deaths at UMass Chan 🐁 New figures reveal scale of rodent experimentation in Australia riseforanimals.org/news/news-oc...

Animal Research News Roundup: October 23, 2026

This week in animal research news: Ridglan Farms animal advocates appear in court; A new song honors rescued beagles; Congresswoman redirects campaign donations from Marshall BioResources' CEO; Questi...

riseforanimals.org

NEW: Ridglan Farms said their dogs were “happy, healthy and well cared for,” pointing to government inspection records as evidence. Then the dogs came out. Cameras captured wounds, scars, hair loss, injured paws, dental issues, and profound submissive behavior. riseforanimals.org/news/ridglan...

What Ridglan Farms' “Happy, Healthy” Beagles Looked Like

Photos of beagles just released from Ridglan Farms reveal health concerns and raise important questions about USDA animal welfare inspections.

riseforanimals.org

This week in animal research: 🐶 An interactive map of the U.S. “lab dog” trade 🐒 U.S. primate centers face uncertain future 🐕 270 dogs used in Triangle universities’ research 🌎 Cambodia’s concerning monkey trade 🎥 Disturbing footage of infant primate experiments riseforanimals.org/news/news-oc...

Animal Research News Roundup: October 16, 2026

This week in animal research news: An interactive map of the U.S. lab dog trade; NPRCs face an uncertain future; 270 dogs used in Triangle universities’ research; Cambodia’s concerning monkey trade; d...

riseforanimals.org

Where do dogs used in research come from—and where are they sent? Our new interactive map uses public records to trace documented transfers between U.S. breeders, dealers, laboratories, universities, and other institutions. Explore the pipeline: riseforanimals.org/lab-dog-trad... #animalrights

Interactive Map: The "Lab Dog" Trade

Explore the U.S. "research dog" supply chain in this interactive map that traces documented transfers of dogs between breeders, dealers, laboratories, universities, and research facilities.

riseforanimals.org

NEW: Marshall BioResources is only one part of a much larger "lab dog" pipeline. We’ve mapped public records tracing dogs as they move between breeders, dealers, labs, universities, and more. Explore our new interactive map and see our top five takeaways: riseforanimals.org/news/lab-dog-pipeline/

It’s Not Just Marshall BioResources: Exposing the “Lab Dog” Pipeline

Rise for Animals has compiled and mapped public records to reveal how breeders, labs, universities, and other institutions move thousands of dogs through the U.S. research system. Here are some of the...

riseforanimals.org

This week in animal research news: 🔬 NIH pushes toward human-relevant research 🐒 Records reveal welfare violations at UW-Madison 📄 Lawsuits challenge secrecy around animal research oversight at UMass 🐶 PA’s Beagle Bill could help dogs and cats All the latest: riseforanimals.org/news/news-oc...

Animal Research News Roundup: October 9, 2026

This week in animal research news: NIH invests in non-animal research, UW-Madison faces scrutiny over monkey welfare, UMass is sued over research records, Pennsylvania’s Beagle Bill advances, and more...

riseforanimals.org

The film COYOTE VS. ACME turns Wile E. Coyote’s lifelong suffering into something unexpectedly familiar: a story about animal testing, industry power, and what it takes to fight back. Read more: riseforanimals.org/news/coyote-...

COYOTE VS. ACME Puts Vivisection on Trial

The film turns Wile E. Coyote’s lifelong suffering into something unexpectedly familiar: a story about animal testing, corporate power, and what it takes to fight back.

riseforanimals.org

NIH is investing millions in human-relevant research. That’s good news. But NAMs don’t automatically mean fewer animals in labs—and NIH still doesn’t even know how many animals its funding is used to exploit. So how will we know if animals are really being spared? riseforanimals.org/news/nih-nams

NIH Is Investing in NAMs, But Will Animals Be Spared?

NIH is investing in NAMs and human-relevant research, but without tracking animal testing numbers, it’s unclear whether animal use will actually decline.

riseforanimals.org

This week in animal research: 🧪 FDA moving toward human-based research 🤖 What if AI treats us like we treat animals? 🏛️ COMPACT Act + PA "Beagle Bill" target dog and cat research 🐶 New Ridglan + Marshall developments 🐒 130 CDC monkeys need a new home riseforanimals.org/news/news-oc...

Animal Research News Roundup: October 2, 2026

This week in animal research news: an FDA move to drop "animal" from its drug-testing rules, a question about what happens if AI treats us the way we treat animals, a look inside a primate lab where c...

riseforanimals.org

AI is learning from just about everything humans do—including how we treat animals. Could AI someday apply that same treatment to us? riseforanimals.org/news/ai-trea...

What If AI Treats Us Like We Treat Animals?

As experts warn about AI treating humans like lesser beings, we examine what humanity’s exploitation of other animals may already be teaching AI.

riseforanimals.org

FDA is planning take “animal” out of key drug-testing regulations. That’s progress! But: 🔸 Animal tests remain permissible, 🔸 Industry practice may not change, 🔸 The rule can still be withdrawn or reversed, and 🔸 Questions about the evaluation of NAMs remain. ℹ️ riseforanimals.org/news/fda-dir...

FDA Wants to Drop “Animal” from Its Rules. Let’s Lock It In.

FDA is aiming to replace outdated animal-testing language in key drug regulations. Here's what the new rule means and why the FDA Modernization Act 3.0 still matters for animals in labs.

riseforanimals.org

This week in animal research: 🐔 Inside UW–Madison’s “poultry lab” 🐒 Rescued chimp sees again after surgery 🐶 New Ridglan + Marshall developments 🔬 FDA + NIH take steps towards human-based research 🏛️ New legislation focuses on dogs + cats And more: riseforanimals.org/news/news-se... #animalrights

Animal Research News Roundup: September 25, 2026

This week in animal research news: a disturbing look inside UW–Madison’s “poultry lab,” a beautiful update from a chimpanzee sanctuary, new developments involving Ridglan and Marshall, and federal mov...

riseforanimals.org

Pierre spent part of his life in a research lab. Today, he’s living at @chimphaven.bsky.social—and seeing his sanctuary home clearly again. After cataracts began taking the chimpanzee's sight, his caregivers stepped in. Here's what happened next: riseforanimals.org/news/chimp-c...

Pierre Sees the World Again

After spending the first part of his life in a research lab, a chimpanzee named Pierre found sanctuary at Chimp Haven. See how cataract surgery restored his sight and changed his world.

riseforanimals.org

In UW–Madison’s “poultry lab,” students are taught to kill and dissect birds, open developing eggs, and witness freshly killed animals being cut apart. It’s a disturbing example of how animal suffering is normalized across agriculture and research. riseforanimals.org/news/uw-madi... #animalrights

UW-Madison Students Call It the Poultry Lab. They’re Right.

UW–Madison students learn to kill and dissect birds in a poultry science course that looks strikingly similar to an animal research lab.

riseforanimals.org

This week in animal research: 🔗 The false divide between animal research & animal agriculture 🐶 NIH funding for dog & cat experiments scrutinized 🐒 FDA orders 20 young baboons for research ✊ Advocates on a 207-mile march to end animal testing riseforanimals.org/news/news-se...

Animal Research News Roundup: September 18, 2026

This week in animal research news: The false divide between animal research & animal agriculture; NIH funding for dog & cat experiments scrutinized; FDA orders 20 young baboons for research; Advocates...

riseforanimals.org

Animal research and animal agriculture aren’t separate fights. At Fauna Connections, we challenged the divide between “research” and “farmed” animals—and explored how bridging it could strengthen our movement for all animals. WATCH: riseforanimals.org/news/bridgin... #animalrights #animaladvocacy

The False Divide Between Animal Research & Animal Agriculture

Animal research and animal agriculture aren’t separate fights. At Fauna Connections, Rise for Animals challenged the divide between “research” and “farmed” animals—and explored how bridging it could s...

riseforanimals.org

The animals are bred to order. Confined. Standardized, priced, sold, used, and killed. Their bodies are treated as production units—whether the product is meat, milk, body parts, data, or publications. Research animals are farmed animals: riseforanimals.org/news/researc... #animalrights #vegan

Research Animals Are Farmed Animals, Too

From pigs and cows to mice and fish, animals exploited in farms and laboratories are trapped in the same industrial pipeline. Rise for Animals is calling for one unified fight against animal exploitat...

riseforanimals.org

✍️ ADD YOUR NAME FOR THE DOGS: Beagles at Marshall BioResources were allegedly killed while fully conscious, screaming, and thrashing. Send your letter urging officials to investigate and protect the dogs now: actionnetwork.org/letters/save... #animalrights #petition #animalprotection

Take Action: Save the Dogs! Tell Officials to Investigate Marshall BioResources

✍️ ADD YOUR NAME FOR THE DOGS: Beagles at Marshall BioResources were allegedly killed while fully conscious, screaming, and thrashing. The Coalition to Save the Marshall Dogs is calling for a criminal...

actionnetwork.org

This week in animal research: 💰 Federal dollars buying animals from Marshall BioResources ⚠️ Coalition calls for criminal investigation 🏛 Oklahoma reconsiders its mandatory pound-seizure law 🧪 Regulators advance animal-free horseshoe crab testing More: riseforanimals.org/news/news-se... #animalrights

Animal Research News Roundup: September 11, 2026

This week in animal research news: Federal dollars are helping keep a major animal breeder in business; Coalition calls for criminal investigation over alleged cruelty; 10 retired breeding dogs releas...

riseforanimals.org

Oklahoma is the last state in the country with a law that can compel municipal shelters to surrender unclaimed dogs and cats for use in research. Yesterday, state lawmakers took a closer look at changing that. (1/3)

Federal records show the U.S. military is buying animals from Marshall BioResources, spending taxpayer dollars on ferrets and pigs for painful and deadly government experiments. Learn more and take action: riseforanimals.org/news/fed-gov... #animalrights #animalprotection

The U.S. Federal Government is Helping Keep Marshall BioResources in Business

Federal records show the U.S. military is sending taxpayer dollars directly to Marshall BioResources, buying ferrets and pigs for painful and deadly government experiments.

riseforanimals.org

From Albany to Marshall BioResources: 207 miles. 14 days. One message: Animal testing must end. We are proud to stand as a coalition partner in the March to Abolish Animal Testing, Sept. 12–26. Join the march for a day, multiple days, weekends, or the whole route: www.marchforanimals.org

March for Animals | 207 Miles to End Animal Testing

This September, march from Albany to Marshall BioResources and help demand a future where scientific progress no longer depends on animal suffering.

marchforanimals.org

Conscious dogs screamed and struggled as if being "burned alive from the inside," according to a whistleblower. This harrowing account is among the disturbing allegations at the center of a formal call for a criminal investigation into Marshall BioResources. ℹ️ riseforanimals.org/news/marshal...

Marshall BioResources Faces Call for Criminal Investigation

Whistleblower testimony and veterinary evidence raise serious allegations of cruelty at Marshall BioResources. Help demand a criminal investigation.

riseforanimals.org

🐷💕 Fourteen Yucatan minipigs from a Midwest research laboratory are now free and beginning new lives at animal sanctuaries across the U.S. For more on this rescue mission, visit: riseforanimals.org/news/minipig... #animalrescue #pigrescue #animalrights #endanimalresearch #stopanimaltesting

Join us on the ground: our 207-mile march from Albany to Marshall BioResources kicks off September 12th and runs through our Day of Action on September 26th. Register to march — even for an hour or a single day — at marchforanimals.org

March for Animals | 207 Miles to End Animal Testing

This September, march from Albany to Marshall BioResources and help demand a future where scientific progress no longer depends on animal suffering.

marchforanimals.org

First, label them “pests.” Then it becomes easier to justify trapping, caging, breeding, and selling wild-caught monkeys for use in laboratory research. That's what's happening to endangered long-tailed macaques in Indonesia: riseforanimals.org/news/how-to-... #InternationalPrimateDay

How to Make a Monkey Killable

Indonesia’s expanding trade in long-tailed macaques relies on a familiar justification: calling monkeys “pests.” Learn how that label helps normalize the capture, breeding, export, and exploitation of...

riseforanimals.org

This week in animal research: 🐒 How labs keep monkeys isolated—and get away with it 🔬 EPA advances animal-free testing 🐵 UC Davis cited over monkey injuries 🐭 VCU halts an inhumane mouse study Get all the news: riseforanimals.org/news/news-au... #animalrights #endanimalresearch #stopanimaltesting

Animal Research News Roundup: August 28, 2026

This week in animal research news: How U.S. labs keep monkeys in solitary confinement; EPA announces new advances to eliminate animal testing; UC Davis cited over monkey injuries and unsafe enclosures...

riseforanimals.org