Most of us can accept that animal experiments are ok before allowing new drugs on the market. But allowing such animal ...

If drug developers are allowed to skip this step, it will mean that, in the near future, the first living body a new drug is ever tested in will be a human.

In the 1980s, Shuler was a math and engineering guy who imagined an " animal on a chip," a cell culture base seeded with a variety of human cells that could be used for testing drugs.

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...

The US Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will be phasing out a requirement that monoclonal antibodies and other drugs be tested on animals, saying in a news release that ...

He said the VA continues to explore alternatives to using cats, dogs and primates in experiments and is funding staff training on reducing live animal testing, among other initiatives. Congress ...