Animal testing, long used in science, is considered outdated, cruel and unnecessary. Every year, millions of animals are subjected to painful experiments in laboratories, often resulting in permanent ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But 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 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced plans to begin replacing animal testing in drug development with “more effective, human-relevant methods”, including AI models and lab-based ...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya recently announced on Fox News the agency closed its last in-house beagle laboratory on the NIH campus. The announcement comes just days ...

Millions of animals each year are killed in U.S. laboratories as part of medical training and chemical, food, drug and cosmetic testing, according to the non-profit animal rights organization People ...

A lawsuit accuses Macalester College of violating state consumer fraud laws “by advertising itself as a model of compliance” with ethical animal research guidelines, while killing small animals in ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said this weekend that he is working across the government to end all federally funded animal testing. "All the major agency heads are ...

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