When developing drugs, we rely on animal models to test drugs in an entire system before first-in-human studies. However, animals aren’t human and interspecies differences in pharmacology ...

The baseball clay provided to the Animal Kingdom by the ESPN WideWorld of Sports helped the Florida park's lesser flamingos build bigger and better nests Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.

The FDA has now officially recognized that advancing science and technology have pushed us across a threshold: Animal models have become obsolete. We are now moving away from animal testing toward ...

A humanized mouse is a mouse that has been engrafted with something from a human—a piece of human DNA, a human tissue, a human tumor, a human immune system component, or a human microbiome ...

Meanwhile, 77% said they weren’t using cell-based in vitro non-animal models like cell cultures and organoids in their R&D process. As for why they haven’t begun using alternatives ...

Many people, including researchers, recognize that animal models of human disease don't work as well as their colleagues and others claim that they do. I recently learned of an outstanding book by ...