The Trump administration took another step toward pivoting away from animal testing in biomedical research on Monday, ...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Monday announced the launch of a new office aimed at reducing the use of ...
In his first two years on the job, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has become a polarizing figure ...
For decades, scientists have relied on animal research to propel modern medicine forward, with animal testing being involved in routine vaccinations as well as cancer therapies. However, the status ...
The European Union has declared that it wants to stop using animals in chemical safety testing. Its goal will need a timeline ...
Washington, DC—Last month, both the National Institutes of Health and the US Food and Drug Administration announced plans to phase out the use of animals in scientific research. The Animal Welfare ...
A social media post from the US Food and Drug Administration this week shows a big-eyed macaque staring out from behind bars. “Some drugs use 144 monkeys on average for preclinical testing,” the post ...
As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...
Neuroscientists argue that discontinuing in vivo models before using them to fix historical sex inequities in research risks embedding a male bias in biomedicine.