PETA applauds Republican lawmakers urging NIH to stop funding animal experiments in foreign labs, supporting the CARGO Act to ...

A new study in evolutionary biology tested how personality traits such as boldness and shyness influence innovation. Shy mice, it turns out, have a higher chance of succeeding than their bold ...

Nearly all of the contracts are with the U.S. Army. The experimentation ranges from several drug toxicology tests on dogs to ...

A spokesperson for the UK-based Understanding Animal Research organisation was sceptical about the scientists’ claims, saying: “Those who do animal testing are also the biggest investors in ...

On April 10, the Food and Drug Administration announced plans to phase out animal testing requirements for the development of monoclonal antibodies — used to treat a variety of diseases ...

On Sept. 20, the Task Force on Transparency in Publicly Funded Animal Testing Facilities will hold its final meeting in Richmond. If the previous two meetings are any indication, the industry that ...

Animal testing should be illegal. ... Most experiments involving animals are flawed and waste the lives of the animal subjects. Mice and primates share 98% and higher DNA with humans.

The federal government is pushing alternatives to animal testing. A Wisconsin-based laboratory is leading the way.

Animal testing is also expensive, time-consuming and not always accurate. When testing on animals, scientists do not always have the ability to practice on a variety of different genders ...

“We have a law allowing for animal-free testing methods on the books, and it’s time we put it to use by expanding testing options.” That older bill — the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 ...

However, the number of drugs failing to make it to market that have passed animal testing reached an all-time high of 95% in 2021, according to a review paper in the journal Nature. Thomas Hartung, a ...

NIH plans to reduce animal testing in federally funded research Moreover, animal models have dramatically enhanced our understanding of birth defects, from which more children die from than cancers.