Animal farming, involving cultivation and protection of other species, predates human civilization. Leafcutter ants cultivate specialized fungi for sustenance over fifty million years. Some ants ...

The European Food Safety Authority (ESFA) develops a new platform to model and predict the toxicity of chemicals, signalling the potential to end animal testing. Safety assessments to evaluate the ...

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