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 ...

The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is taking two key steps to eliminate animal testing. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expanding its list of “cutting-edge” alternative ...

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 ...

Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...

When developing new therapies for diseases, biotech researchers are often limited by two time-consuming steps: first, screening thousands of drug candidates in test tubes and second, taking the best ...

Recent years have seen a growing movement away from animal testing and toward models that more closely replicate human physiology. This shift aims to protect animal welfare while concurrently ...

“The FDA’s animal testing requirement will be reduced, refined, or potentially replaced using a range of approaches,” the agency said, including AI-based computational models about how toxic a ...

Several mice sit in a plastic container on a shelf with food pellets and a water bottle overhead and sawdust beneath them. Mice in a laboratory. The European Union published a roadmap this week on ...

The European Commission has adopted a roadmap to phase out the use of animals in chemical safety assessments, including for pharmaceuticals. The plan, published on 1 June, describes how animal testing ...

Many products that Americans use every day — from makeup to sunscreens — are tested on animals for safety. But experts say the safety data can be gathered using more modern methods that don’t involve ...