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 ...

Petco stops selling rabbits after animal group calls out ‘blatant betrayal’ By Adriana Diaz Published Sep. 24, 2024, 6:05 p.m. ET ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to Justin Goodman, White Coat Waste’s senior vice president of advocacy and public policy, the federal government spends an estimated $20 billion each year on animal testing, and 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.

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 ...