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 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 ...

Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a ...

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 U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will be phasing out a requirement that monoclonal antibodies and other drugs be tested on animals, saying in a news release that there ...

Feinberg Professor emerita Eva Redei’s research had two key components: vats of water and “depressed” rats. Redei found that the rodents, genetically engineered in a Kyoto lab to exhibit depressive ...

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A Brisbane AI start-up company has partnered with tech giant Google in hopes of solving a dark secret plaguing the drug ...

In April, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 85 into law, which requires health-related research facilities to put test dogs and cats up for adoption before euthanizing them when they're ...

Criticism of animal research − usually associated with the progressive left − has grown in recent years, as the practice is blamed for the slow pace of drug development. The Food and Drug ...