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 ...

Phasing out animal testing in preclinical drug trials in favor of unvalidated alternate methodologies could ultimately backfire and raise safety and effectiveness concerns, says Sara Gerke, the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA plans to reduce and potentially replace animal testing for developing monoclonal antibody therapies and ...

Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...

Feinberg Professor emerita Eva Redei’s research had two key components: vats of water and “depressed” rats. Redei found that the rodents, genetically engineered in a Kyoto lab to exhibit depressive ...

In April of this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new roadmap that aims to replace animal testing in the development of new drugs with more human-relevant methods. The goal is ...