The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently sought input on ways to accelerate the American scientific ...

Despite claims to “drain the swamp” and cut wasteful government spending, and despite the efforts of Elon Musk and a new ...

The shift is part of a government-wide effort to phase out the use of live animals in federally sponsored tests, studies and ...

The push to abandon animal testing is gaining momentum, driven by the realization that it is costly, unreliable and ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its new 2025 Guidelines on the replacement or removal of animal tests for the quality control of biological products.

On April 10, the US Food and Drug Administration announced it would phase out animal testing for certain drug studies. The agency published a roadmap that outlines a six-prong approach to reducing ...

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.

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The owner of a rescued lab dog considers if insights gleaned through animal research are enough to justify the practice.

Experiments on animals (“in vivo” experiments) have long been the norm for learning about human health and disease, because testing on live animals enables researchers to investigate how chemicals, ...

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 ...

A proposed measure in Switzerland would have made that country the first to ban medical and scientific experimentation on animals. It failed to pass in February 2022, with only 21% of voters in favor.