There’s no scientific basis for the view that lab dogs are inherently different from pets, or that they were somehow not ...

The Chocolate Lab is a medium-to-large sporting breed and is considered the rarest of the Labrador Retriever coat colors according to the breed standard. While most Labradors are recognized for their ...

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon--a change that's based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is coming from within the scientific community as well as from activists, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. If a book’s topic were “farms for the production of beagles for some ...

Kaplan is the author of “Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research.” We woke in Boston before daybreak as usual, and Hammy — my beagle, who was once a lab dog ...