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 ...

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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 ...

The National Institutes of Health announced on Monday that the biomedical agency will no longer award funding to new grant proposals solely relying upon animal testing and will require that applicants ...

Animal testing remains a fundamental part of biomedical research. But as funding evaporates, mice, rats and even monkeys may be euthanized. By Emily Anthes On April 1, the Trump administration’s ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – BROOKLYN/STATEN ISLAND Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11) last week introduced legislation in Congress that would ban most animal testing in federal labs, named the Safeguard Pets, ...

FDA and NIH recently announced initiatives outlining specific actions each agency will take to encourage greater adoption of new and emerging technologies to reduce the need for — and potentially ...

Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer joins NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhatt to discuss the groundbreaking shift away from animal testing in biomedical research. With 20 years of experience leading scientific innovation, ...

The FDA has released a plan to stop or reduce the use of primates for testing the safety of certain monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), the latest expansion of the regulator’s efforts to eliminate animal ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said this weekend that he is working across the government to end all federally funded animal testing. "All the major agency heads are ...