In a historic move, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that it will no longer seek research ...

Approximately three quarters of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development — representing 1,000 ...

Reflecting on animal testing, Ben Marra writes, "I thank the mice too, sublimated and inert, because I have no answers for them." ...

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine works to replace animal testing on a global scale through our work with the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hoping to find homes for some of its testing animals held for research conducted ...

Organs-on-a-chip are miniature devices that use human cells to mimic organs. Harvard bioengineer Donald Ingber and colleagues demonstrated that cells configured into a liver-on-a-chip, for ...

Animal experimentation A difficult issue In 1997 Dr Jay Vacanti and his team grew an ear on the back of a mouse Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety ...

The European legal framework requires its Member States to pay full regard to animal welfare standards when formulating and implementing policies. Yet, when it comes to chemical safety, the EU’s ...

At Hartville’s Kindness Ranch, former research animals get a rare second chance. But before healing can begin, labs must be ...

Researchers examine how the use of animal testing to identify endocrine-disrupting substances in the EU can be reduced.