The FDA’s emerging framework represents more than a regulatory update; it is a paradigm shift toward human-relevant, science-forward drug development. By reducing reliance on animal models and ...

The FDA's announcement in April that it will phase out animal testing in clinical trials came as a victory for animal rights activists but garnered mixed reactions among health researchers. The agency ...

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...

In April of this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new roadmap that aims to replace animal testing in the development of new drugs with more human-relevant methods. The goal is ...

The National Institutes of Health announced last week that it will no longer issue funding calls for grant proposals that rely solely on animal testing. Moving forward, all such calls must also ...

AI-based approaches are increasingly capturing complex human disease biology directly, without the use of potentially confounding animal models. [ignatiev / Getty Images] The recent decision by the ...

For decades, preclinical testing in mice, rats, and nonhuman primates has been a crucial part of drug development, an important although not infallible way to ensure some measure of safety for human ...

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 ...

What do you know about our modern era of brands and product testing on animals? Animal testing was once a routine part of product safety measures, particularly in the beauty industry. But is this ...

The last few weeks have been busy for Jim Corbett. Corbett, the CEO of organ-chip developer Emulate, has been fielding requests from potential clients, as well as from early investors who say they ...

Drugs have been tested on animals for over a century, but new technology may one day eliminate the need to do so. Congress and the FDA are pushing pharmaceutical companies to replace animals with ...

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