Animal testing remains one of the most controversial parts of modern science. Every year, millions of animals are used in ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced two new testing procedures on Thursday to evaluate chemical and pesticide safety without using live animals. The policy shift introduces non-animal ...

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Mezrich is professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin and holds the Mark A. Fischer Chair in Transplantation. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seeks to end all federally funded animal ...

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 ...

If there's one thing most people can agree on, even if for different reasons, it's that animal testing is bad — ask animal ...

As the Trump administration phases out the use of animal experimentation across the federal government, a biotech startup has a bold idea for an alternative to animal testing: nonsentient “organ sacks ...

The recent creation of the NIH Office of Research Integrity, Validation, and Adoption of New Approach Methodologies (ORIVA) is more than just an administrative shift. It represents a historic ...

Experiments on animals (“in vivo” experiments) have long been the norm for learning about human health and disease, because testing on live animals enables researchers to investigate how chemicals, ...

About 150,000 animals, mostly rats and mice, are used in the EU each year to test the safety of everyday chemicals, but that is starting to change. Animal welfare campaigners have long raised concerns ...

For many years, the European Union has pursued a policy aimed at the replacement, reduction and refinement of animal testing ...

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