Animal models are often flawed and offer incomplete representations of human disease. Yet we have long relied on their data to establish the risk/benefit for experimental drugs.

Food and Drug Administration inspectors found problems with record keeping and quality controls for animal experiments at Elon Musk’s Neuralink, less than a month after the startup said it was ...

Animal Testing In US Could Be Transformed Photo-illustration by Newsweek/Getty/Canva What Is The Trump Administration Doing About It? There have been various steps taken in different federal ...

This comes as the U.S. Federal Drug Administration works to move away from animal testing for pharmaceuticals altogether. The FDA made a historic decision to phase out animal testing and switch to ...

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.

Coloradan advocates for animal testing reform after rescuing four test dogs 03:35. In April, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 85 into law, which requires health-related research ...

The NIH has made steady progress toward the development and use of non-animal research approaches. In 2024, the agency accepted comprehensive recommendations on catalyzing non-animal approaches ...

In 2025, there are other options for testing, like organ-on-a-chip systems, AI modeling and advanced in vitro tests. The cost to develop drugs is about $2.6 billion per drug.