After fighting against animal testing for decades with little success, campaigners now see a real prospect of rapidly ...

The FDA encourages sponsors to discuss plans to use animal testing alternatives, called new approach methodologies or NAMs, ...

Animal testing is costly, slow, and poorly predictive. ORIVA offers a human-relevant alternative with the potential to change that.

For certain monospecific antibodies, three-month toxicology studies plus other supportive evidence will suffice, eliminating ...

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

Monkeys have been test subjects for infectious diseases for decades. However, that will soon come to an end, according to the ...

The draft guidance issued Tuesday comes as regulators and policymakers have looked for ways to aid U.S. drugmakers amid fast progress by their China-based counterparts.

There are a lot of hot-button questions when it comes to the ethics of scientific research, but the perennial issue of animal testing seems to incite fever-pitched anger on both side of the debate.

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 ...

On today's episode of the 5 Things podcast: A bill became law late last year that could mean the end of testing drugs on animals eventually. It's called the FDA Modernization Act 2.0. The law has ...

For thousands of years, humans have studied animals’ bodies to better understand our own. But using other animals as a proxy for humans is far from perfect. There are ethical issues for one, and they ...