On April 10, the US Food and Drug Administration announced it would phase out animal testing for certain drug studies. The agency published a roadmap that outlines a six-prong approach to reducing ...

Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...

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 push to abandon animal testing is gaining momentum, driven by the realization that it is costly, unreliable and ...

During an interview with a cosmetic chemist, I was shocked when they told me that "cruelty-free is just a marketing tactic; animal testing does not exist in the industry anymore." They did cite ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA plans to reduce and potentially replace animal testing for developing monoclonal antibody therapies and ...

Animal testing in Connecticut rakes in millions in federal dollars each year at colleges and universities but, the National Institutes of Health recently announced it is pivoting from using just ...

Six-month-old Beagle puppies are put in jackets that inject them with cocaine and meth, causing them to vomit and foam at the mouth, as part of a drug testing study by the National Institutes of ...

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 ...

The FDA is moving away from requiring animal models for investigational new drug (IND) applications for new monoclonal antibodies and some other drug candidates. Animal testing will be "reduced, ...