Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” ...

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 ...

The FDA has released draft guidance that aims to clear up how drug developers can use alternative testing – but that doesn’t mean animal testing in the US is over.

Federal regulators in the United States are pushing harder than ever to reduce and eventually replace animal testing in drug and chemical safety assessments. The FDA has released draft guidance ...

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 ...

A group of scientists from a biotechnology startup known as R3 Bio have created multi-organ biological platforms know as ...

Following the trend of other regulators, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is taking steps to reduce the need for animal testing. The agency has issued a draft qualification opinion for a new ...

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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 ...