3D-printed ‘skin’ could make testing cosmetics on animals obsolete Researchers made a bioengineered hydrogel composite filled with living human cells. By Mack DeGeurin ...

Sunscreens are essential in the fight against skin cancer. The FDA, in its proposed order on sunscreen products, ignored the best science and required expensive and outdated animal tests on ...

While the use of animals to test the safety of cosmetic products in the U.S. is legal, a number of states have brought in laws to ban the practice.

L’Oreal is developing of realistic artificial skin that will be able to “feel,” paving the way for ethical testing of cosmetics and other products without the use of animals.

In April, both the National Institutes of Health and the US Food and Drug Administration announced plans to phase out the use of animals in scientific research. The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) ...

Replacing Animals in Regulatory Testing and Scientific Research: ... the number of animals used in such products is significantly greater than the number of the animals used for in vivo tests. 4.

For many animals held captive for research, pain is "not minimized," U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows.

F or decades, preclinical testing in mice, rats, and nonhuman primates has been a crucial part of drug development, an important although not infallible way to ensure some measure of safety for human ...