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 National Institutes of Health defended a grant awarded to a study experimenting on 2-month-old kittens after the agency promised to “phase out” dog and cat testing. The study involves surgeons ...

The National Institutes of Health announced on Monday that the biomedical agency will no longer award funding to new grant proposals solely relying upon animal testing and will require that applicants ...

Researchers are increasingly turning to organ-on-a-chip technology for drug testing and other applications. In a clean room in his lab, Sean Moore peers through a microscope at a bit of intestine, its ...

For decades, preclinical testing in mice, rats, and nonhuman primates has been a crucial part of drug development, an important although not infallible way to ensure some measure of safety for human ...

New drugs are generally tested on animals such as mice and rats before being tested on people. The results of these animal studies are often reported in the media, perhaps raising hope these “miracle” ...

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 ...