The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is following in the FDA’s footsteps—away from animal testing. The NIH plans to establish a new office meant to develop nonanimal methods for biomedical research ...
LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday it plans to phase out animal testing requirements for biological products and drugs, instead moving toward alternative testing models such ...
Carlin is a vice president at Pathway Policy Group and a veterinarian. Paragas is the CEO and founder of DVLP Medicines and a virologist. The Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to phase ...
Every year, more than 100 million animals are used globally in biomedical research, yet over 90% of drugs that appear effective in animal trials fail during human clinical testing. 1 This staggering ...
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 recent op-ed in The Hill praising the National Institutes of Health’s new initiative to promote human-based technologies as a “major victory for animal ethics in science” oversimplifies a far more ...
The UK unveils a new roadmap to phase out animal testing, expanding alternatives like organ-on-a-chip, bio-printed tissue, and AI-powered research.
The National Institutes of Health announced on Monday that the biomedical agency will no longer put out new funding opportunities solely relying upon animal testing and will require that applicants ...