After fighting against animal testing for decades with little success, campaigners now see a real prospect of rapidly ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new draft guidance to reduce the use of non-human primates for certain monoclonal antibody (mAb) products. These laboratory-produced antibodies ...
Real change takes a long time, and when it happens, it must be recognized. The FDA and the NIH have announced their move away from animal testing, improving scientific outcomes and marking a victory ...
Despite decades of advancements in the area of animal-free scientific methods, more than 2.5 million animals were used in ...
Members of Congress exploded Thursday over reports that taxpayer money has paid for experiments using “transgender lab rats,” saying it was time to shut down the government’s animal-testing industry.
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 ...
In April of this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new roadmap that aims to replace animal testing in the development of new drugs with more human-relevant methods. The goal is ...
The European Food Safety Authority (ESFA) develops a new platform to model and predict the toxicity of chemicals, signalling the potential to end animal testing. Safety assessments to evaluate the ...
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, ...
Remember the film where a growling chimpanzee sinks its teeth into one of the activists trying to save it, marking them out as patient zero in a zombie epidemic? 28 Days Later is just one of many ...