Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...
"For too long, bureaucratic inertia has delayed the implementation of these changes, which are vital to saving lives, ...
The FDA’s emerging framework represents more than a regulatory update; it is a paradigm shift toward human-relevant, ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – After losing three elephants to the same disease at the Albuquerque BioPark, the zoo is moving forward with building what they hope is a new line of defense: a special lab ...
Hailed as a victory by animal welfare groups, new federal legislation now eliminates a long-standing requirement that investigational drugs must be tested on animals before humans receive them in drug ...
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.
For thousands of years, humans have studied animals’ bodies to better understand our own. But using other animals as a proxy for humans is far from perfect. There are ethical issues for one, and they ...
On today's episode of the 5 Things podcast: A bill became law late last year that could mean the end of testing drugs on animals eventually. It's called the FDA Modernization Act 2.0. The law has ...
Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...