For generations, U.S. laboratories treated animal testing as an unquestioned prerequisite for new drugs and chemicals, even ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the latest UK Government report into animal testing was keen to highlight a (very slight) decrease from 2.67 million ...

Ms. Blum is the author of “The Monkey Wars,” a book about ethical issues in animal research. Early in my career as a science journalist, I visited a primate research laboratory that was running an ...

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.

Tech advances already show a future of testing in which we might not have to suffer and die while waiting for systems that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kevin Vezirian received funding from a 2018 MENRT ministerial scholarship as part of the preparation of his thesis. Laurent Bègue-Shankland is a member of the advisory and reflection council of the 3R ...

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 ...