Twelve months after releasing a roadmap to shift away from animal testing requirements, the FDA has declared mission ...

Animal testing has shaped medicine for decades. Discover new alternatives, changing laws, and the future of humane science.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, the Trump administration released new draft guidance meant to steer drugmakers toward alternatives to animal testing. - ...

For generations people have associated the terms "lab rat" and "guinea pig" with scientific research. Animal testing remains a standard and has been required for drug approval. Just before Christmas, ...

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 ...

Experimenting on animals is a dark side of science and research. And most of us try not to think about the animals that experienced the horrors of testing when we buy medicine or cleaning supplies. I ...

The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Millions of animals each year are killed in U.S. laboratories as part of medical training and chemical, food, drug and ...

On today's episode of the 5 Things podcast: A bill became law late last year that could mean the end of testing drugs on animals eventually. It's called the FDA Modernization Act 2.0. The law has ...

The Beagle Freedom Project is transforming a 30-acre property in Oklahoma that used to be an animal testing facility into Freedom Fields Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Marissa Russo is a former STAT intern supported by the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship. Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on ...

During an interview with a cosmetic chemist, I was shocked when they told me that "cruelty-free is just a marketing tactic; animal testing does not exist in the industry anymore." They did cite ...