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 ...

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...

In April 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its Roadmap to Reducing Animal Testing in Preclinical Safety Studies—a landmark initiative that lays out a plan to make animal ...

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 announced last week that it will no longer issue funding calls for grant proposals that rely solely on animal testing. Moving forward, all such calls must also ...

Millions of animals each year are killed in U.S. laboratories as part of medical training and chemical, food, drug and cosmetic testing, according to the non-profit animal rights organization People ...

FIRST ON FOX — The Food and Drug Administration is phasing out an animal testing requirement for antibody therapies and other drugs in favor of testing on materials that mimic human organs, the FDA ...

Six-month-old Beagle puppies are put in jackets that inject them with cocaine and meth, causing them to vomit and foam at the mouth, as part of a drug testing study by the National Institutes of ...

Criticism of animal research − usually associated with the progressive left − has grown in recent years, as the practice is blamed for the slow pace of drug development. The Food and Drug ...

The recent creation of the NIH Office of Research Integrity, Validation, and Adoption of New Approach Methodologies (ORIVA) is more than just an administrative shift. It represents a historic ...

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 ...

The FDA is moving away from requiring animal models for investigational new drug (IND) applications for new monoclonal antibodies and some other drug candidates. Animal testing will be "reduced, ...