To this day, animal testing remains one of the most controversial issues in animal rights. Activists have been fighting ...

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 ...

The National Institutes of Health recently announced a landmark initiative to expand human-based science while reducing animal use. The world’s largest funder of biomedical and public health research ...

RFK Jr. Promises to Take Action Against Animal Cruelty and Push for Non-Animal Testing ...

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Government agencies that fund and regulate drug development this year announced a broad plan to move away from testing drugs on animals to assess safety and effectiveness. KPBS sci-tech reporter ...

There’s one area of surprising agreement in the often adversarial relationship between conservatives and the scientific community: the need to phase out animal testing in biomedical research. The new ...

New plan backs researchers to seize on new and developing opportunities to phase out animal tests with specific commitments for the coming years. Animal testing in science is set to be phased out ...

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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This year could mark a turning point for one of science’s most familiar animals: the laboratory mouse. For decades, mice and ...

The National Institutes of Health announced on Monday that the biomedical agency will no longer put out new funding opportunities solely relying upon animal testing and will require that applicants ...