The Trump administration is redoubling its efforts to phase out animal testing in drug development and seeking to develop new ...

Federal regulators in the United States are pushing harder than ever to reduce and eventually replace animal testing in drug ...

As the FDA released its draft guidance, the NIH said it will invest $150 million in human-based research to develop the tools ...

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 ...

Around 348 B.C., Aristotle took a two-year trip to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to study animals in a lagoon. Along with observing the creatures in their natural habitat and surmising, among ...

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 ...

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Vanda) (Nasdaq: VNDA), a leader in innovative drug development and a vocal advocate for reducing ...

Organoids, organs-on-a-chip, and machine learning technologies have improved dramatically in recent years, but have they come far enough to replace animal research? Additionally, despite attempts to ...

For thousands of years, humans have studied animals’ bodies to better understand our own. But using other animals as a proxy for humans is far from perfect. There are ethical issues for one, and they ...

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