For experiments requiring repeated venipuncture or prolonged intravenous infusion or sampling techniques, the ferret can serve successfully as a surrogate nonrodent animal model. Because experimental ...

An Oregon Health & Science University laboratory broke animal health-and-safety law when five prairie voles died because researchers failed to give them water, a federal inspector found recently. In ...

Oregon Health & Science University shut down a scientist’s ferret research in June after federal officials found violations of multiple rules meant to ensure the animals suffer as little as possible.

Ferrets have been used as research models since the early 1900s (ref. 2). They are hardy animals that thrive in the lab, provided that their social behaviors, diet and other habits, such as their ...

Lab llamas have replaced rats as the go-to experimental mammals in the age of coronavirus. The camel’s cousin is, along with the domesticated polecat — aka ferret — and hamster, have joined the front ...