Experimenting on animals is a dark side of science and research. And most of us try not to think about the animals that experienced the horrors of testing when we buy medicine or cleaning supplies. I ...

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 ...

Well before a human receives the first dose of an experimental drug, it’s evaluated in an animal to test for toxicity. Monkeys are often chosen for their genetic similarities to humans, and safe ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced it plans to phase out animal testing in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs and biological products “with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twelve months after releasing a roadmap to shift away from animal testing requirements, the FDA has declared mission accomplished for its first-year goals. But experts have cautioned that there is ...

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Advanced in organs on chips, digital twins, and AI are ushering in a new era of research and drug development. Earlier this week, the UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out ...

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