Animal testing has shaped medicine for decades. Discover new alternatives, changing laws, and the future of humane science.

Each year on April 24, scientists, advocates, and policymakers around the world mark World Day for Laboratory Animals—a ...

The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...

Twelve months after releasing a roadmap to shift away from animal testing requirements, the FDA has declared mission ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will be phasing out a requirement that monoclonal antibodies and other drugs be tested on animals, saying in a news release that there ...

Stem Pharm, a Madison biotech startup, is using lab-created 3D "organoids" to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. In April, the FDA and NIH announced plans to incentivize so-called "new ...

What would you sacrifice to push efforts forward on eliminating diseases? What about to make sure our products and medicines are safe, especially for our most vulnerable? These questions lead us to ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Millions of animals each year are killed in U.S. laboratories as part of medical training and chemical, food, drug and ...

Members of Congress exploded Thursday over reports that taxpayer money has paid for experiments using “transgender lab rats,” saying it was time to shut down the government’s animal-testing industry.

New addition to state’s veterinary lab system will speed animal disease diagnoses, lowering business costs and helping ...

Criticism of animal research − usually associated with the progressive left − has grown in recent years, as the practice is blamed for the slow pace of drug development. The Food and Drug ...

If a Connecticut legislative committee were to get its way, breeders and facilities that do animal testing would be required to offer animals they no longer want for adoption instead of immediately ...