There are a lot of hot-button questions when it comes to the ethics of scientific research, but the perennial issue of animal testing seems to incite fever-pitched anger on both side of the debate.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday it plans to phase out animal testing requirements for biological products and drugs, instead moving toward alternative testing models such ...

Our beauty routines are making animals suffer. Every year, countless rabbits, mice and dogs are subjected to toxic chemical tests so companies can sell new makeup products. These animals are burned, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its new 2025 Guidelines on the replacement or removal of animal tests for the quality control of biological products.

Many products that Americans use every day — from makeup to sunscreens — are tested on animals for safety. But experts say the safety data can be gathered using more modern methods that don’t involve ...

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. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notes that ...

(CNN) — Canada has moved to ban the testing of cosmetics on animals, joining a number of other countries and American states to outlaw the practice. The Canadian government announced the decision in a ...

FOR BIOTECH, DEB, IT REALLY IS. IN THE PAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION, MARYLAND’S GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSED A BILL PROVIDING GRANTS TO MARYLAND SCIENTISTS WHO DEVELOP NON ANIMAL BASED RESEARCH METHODS. IT WAS ...

Around 348 B.C., Aristotle took a two-year trip to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to study animals in a lagoon. Along with observing the creatures in their natural habitat and surmising, among ...

The German specialty chemical firm Symrise will be forced to conduct animal testing on two chemicals used as UV filters in sunscreens after a European court ruling on Nov. 22. The European Chemicals ...