Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

Stem Pharm, a Madison biotech startup, is using lab-created 3D "organoids" to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. In April, the FDA and NIH announced plans to incentivize so-called "new ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced plans to begin replacing animal testing in drug development with “more effective, human-relevant methods”, including AI models and lab-based ...

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 ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

Millions of animals each year are killed in U.S. laboratories as part of medical training and chemical, food, drug and cosmetic testing, according to the non-profit animal rights organization People ...

Members of Congress exploded Thursday over reports that taxpayer money has paid for experiments using “transgender lab rats,” saying it was time to shut down the government’s animal-testing industry.

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If a Connecticut legislative committee were to get its way, breeders and facilities that do animal testing would be required to offer animals they no longer want for adoption instead of immediately ...

Sentient is a title that cuts both ways in the directorial debut from veteran Australian journalist Tony Jones, which takes an emotionally powerful but nuanced and discursive approach to the world of ...