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.

The United States will scale back certain drug-safety testing requirements on monkeys, federal regulators said Tuesday, as ...

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 ...

Animal testing in Connecticut rakes in millions in federal dollars each year at colleges and universities but, the National Institutes of Health recently announced it is pivoting from using just ...

For certain monospecific antibodies, three-month toxicology studies plus other supportive evidence will suffice, eliminating ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced earlier this month that it will be phasing out animal testing for some new drugs, and instead be using “more effective, human-relevant methods” such as ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – BROOKLYN/STATEN ISLAND Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11) last week introduced legislation in Congress that would ban most animal testing in federal labs, named the Safeguard Pets, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A national physicians group is denouncing Oregon Health and Science University’s use of live animals for medical training. More than 500 members of the Physicians Committee for ...

The program subsidizes schools to develop courses on non-animal alternative models, including 3D mapping, digital imaging, ...

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 ...

Today, the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced ...