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 Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...

Now a team of Brazilian scientists has put that tradition through a modern stress test: standardized extracts, controlled ...

When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they ...

Alzheimer’s has long been considered irreversible, but new research challenges that assumption. Scientists discovered that severe drops in the brain’s energy supply help drive the disease—and ...

Testing mice for depression is challenging. “You can’t put a mouse on a psychiatrist’s couch and ask it how it’s feeling,” said Sarah Bailey, who heads the pharmacology group at the University of Bath ...

The government has set out a plan to phase out scientific experimentation on live animals in all but the most exceptional situations. New funding will be given to researchers to support a pivot ...

For more than a century, Alzheimer’s disease has been treated as a one‑way slide, something that could perhaps be slowed but ...

For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease ...

Our beauty routines are making animals suffer. Every year, countless rabbits, mice and dogs are subjected to toxic chemical tests so companies can sell new makeup products. These animals are burned, ...