If the federal government took the time to study in advance what could happen if a floating wall of huge, cylindrical buoys ...

Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” ...

R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term ...

U.S. Senator Gary Peters, MI, helped reintroduce the Animal Freedom from Testing, Experimentation, and Research (AFTER) Act. The bipartisan legislation would ensure that every federal agency that uses ...

The FDA has released draft guidance that aims to clear up how drug developers can use alternative testing – but that doesn’t ...

Animal intelligence can be surprisingly difficult to measure. We often judge other species by our own standards, but ...

The diseases were removed from a list of tests the agency conducts for state and local health departments. Experts worry that ...

Animal studies often fail to predict human tissue responses to new drugs or newly developed therapies. Besides generating ...

Boston biotech firm R3 BIO is developing lab-grown organ systems called "bodyoids" with investors hoping the technology could ...

March 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued a draft guidance to help companies reduce ...

Britain's medicines regulator said on Wednesday it will introduce a framework by the end of ​2026, which would allow ...

A social media post from the US Food and Drug Administration this week shows a big-eyed macaque staring out from behind bars. “Some drugs use 144 monkeys on average for preclinical testing,” the post ...