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 ...

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 ...

Following Congress’s repeal of the FDA’s long-standing animal testing requirement, the Environmental Protection Agency is now ...

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 ...

For decades, animals have served as the default for drug testing, but the biological divide between species is proving costly. Currently, only about 10 percent of drugs that enter human trials receive ...

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 ...

India is transitioning from traditional animal testing to advanced human-relevant methods like organoids and AI. This shift ...

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 ...

Dr Reddy's, Biocon and Sun Pharma are exploring human-based testing methods that could halve drug development timelines and sharply reduce costs, while meeting global regulatory standards ...