This page contains information on why and how laboratory animals are used at the University of Helsinki. Appropriately monitored and regulated animal experiments have been and still are necessary for ...

In my time I have seen some pretty strange things parading as art – I still vividly remember the sawn-up sharks and cows in Damien Hirst’s Sensation Exhibition. Beauty and art I guess is in the eye of ...

The vast majority of animals need to breed to reproduce. But a small subset of animals can have offspring without mating. The process, called parthenogenesis, allows creatures from honey bees to ...