As the Trump administration reshapes biomedicine, it wants to change how scientists test drug safety: animal research.

Shifting away from reliance on animal testing has been a priority for Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump ’s NIH director, who was confirmed by the Senate on April 1.

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 ...

Next, we need to defund animal testing labs in China. As we’ve learned the hard way from the Wuhan lab leak, the U.S. government’s animal abuse is an international problem.

Animal testing has been the gold standard in drug research for years, but now, the FDA and over 80% of Americans surveyed say it’s time for a different approach. "It's also way better science to ...

Now, FDA has announced that its animal testing requirement “will be reduced, refined, or potentially replaced using a range of approaches, including AI-based computational models of toxicity and ...

In mid-April 2025, social media users spread a rumor that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration would end animal testing at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by recommitting to a ...

3D-printed ‘skin’ could make testing cosmetics on animals obsolete Researchers made a bioengineered hydrogel composite filled with living human cells. Mack DeGeurin Apr 3, 2025 3:37 PM EDT ...

Invasive Burmese pythons are a major ecological threat to the Everglades, decimating native animal populations. Researchers are testing robot bunnies equipped ... such as raccoons and rabbits, had ...

The framework for most state's laws on animal testing in cosmetics is based on the Humane Cosmetics Act, a bill which aims to make it "unlawful to knowingly conduct or contract for cosmetic animal ...