R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term ...

Animal models work in lab conditions, because their lives are shorter so you can control the environment in studies.

The FDA has released draft guidance that aims to clear up how drug developers can use alternative testing – but that doesn’t ...

Experimenting on animals is a dark side of science and research. And most of us try not to think about the animals that ...

Federal regulators in the United States are pushing harder than ever to reduce and eventually replace animal testing in drug ...

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 U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will be phasing out a requirement that monoclonal antibodies and other drugs be tested on animals, saying in a news release that there ...

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 ...

FIRST ON FOX — The Food and Drug Administration is phasing out an animal testing requirement for antibody therapies and other drugs in favor of testing on materials that mimic human organs, the FDA ...

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 ...

A plot of land that used to be an animal testing lab has become an animal sanctuary for more than 200 cats and dogs. It comes after its founder, Shannon Keith, spent years writing to testing labs ...