The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Monday announced the launch of a new office aimed at reducing the use of ...

The Trump administration took another step toward pivoting away from animal testing in biomedical research on Monday, ...

There’s one area of surprising agreement in the often adversarial relationship between conservatives and the scientific community: the need to phase out animal testing in biomedical research. The new ...

(CNN) — A social media post from the US Food and Drug Administration this week shows a big-eyed macaque staring out from behind bars. “Some drugs use 144 monkeys on average for preclinical testing,” ...

Stem Pharm, a Madison biotech startup, is using lab-created 3D "organoids" to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. In April, the FDA and NIH announced plans to incentivize so-called "new ...

The European Union has declared that it wants to stop using animals in chemical safety testing. Its goal will need a timeline ...

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 ...

The European Commission has adopted a roadmap to phase out the use of animals in chemical safety assessments, including for pharmaceuticals.

Alan Marvin Goldberg, a Johns Hopkins toxicologist who was a national advocate for alternatives to animal testing, died of pneumonia on June 9 at Adventist HealthCare. The former Mount Washington ...

Researchers examine how the use of animal testing to identify endocrine-disrupting substances in the EU can be reduced. Although it is, in principle, possible to identify such substances without using ...

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 ...

The National Institutes of Health also announced that it’s investing $150 million to develop animal model alternatives. “This draft guidance advances our commitment to replace animal testing with ...