Animal testing has long been a fixture of medical and pharmaceutical research, but alternative methods are growing more and more important. Innovative methods allow for research aimed directly at ...

In a bid to prioritise more human-relevant models, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has enforced a plan to phase out animal testing for monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in the preclinical stage, ...

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 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed guidance to reduce the need for animal testing in the development of ...

Animal testing has been widely debated for many years. Following a large public petition, the European Commission is developing a roadmap to outline how all animal testing for chemical safety ...

Allied Market Research has published a comprehensive new study titled "Non-Animal Alternative Testing Market by Technology (Cell Culture Technology, High Throughput Technology, Molecular Imaging, and ...

Drug developers will be able to use alternatives to animal testing and possibly get new products to market faster under draft guidance issued Wednesday by the FDA. In a press release, officials said ...

When we imagine the process of developing new drugs, we often picture scientists working with cutting-edge technology in gleaming laboratories. But there’s a side of pharmaceutical research that is ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

In a Policy Forum, Chad Nelson and colleagues highlight the efforts of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in advancing alternative methods to reduce animal testing for regulatory use. Animal ...

FDA and NIH recently announced initiatives outlining specific actions each agency will take to encourage greater adoption of new and emerging technologies to reduce the need for — and potentially ...