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 ...

Animal Testing... Checking Safety Before Human Use ● Doubled in 10 Years On January 20, the European Union (EU) agreed to ban ...

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 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced plans to begin replacing animal testing in drug development with “more effective, human-relevant methods”, including AI models and lab-based ...

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 ...

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 ...