In other developments, the EPA updated emission standards for polyether polyols and declined to regulate 9 drinking-water contaminants ...

The FDA has released draft guidance that aims to clear up how drug developers can use alternative testing – but that doesn’t ...

Animal studies often fail to predict human tissue responses to new drugs or newly developed therapies. Besides generating tremendous costs for clinical studies, it also raises significant ethical ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is actively steering drug developers away from traditional animal studies and toward human-biology-based testing methods for monoclonal antibody programs. The ...

To address these critical safety requirements, BETMAT Biotechnology LLC has released a specialized operational guide focused on Reliable Endotoxin Testing For Injectable Pharmaceuticals, a systematic ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued a draft guidance to help companies reduce animal studies of experimental drugs and adopt newer methods, such as ​computer simulations and ...

The Trump administration is redoubling its efforts to phase out animal testing in drug development using new approach methodologies.

Purdue researchers created a contraceptive vaccine that sharply cuts fertility to help manage wildlife overpopulation humanely.

In April 2025, the FDA announced plans to shift biomedical research for monoclonal antibodies and other medications away from animal testing toward new approaches. One year later, much speculation ...

It takes a long time, many different steps, and considerable cost, before a new drug can be approved for use as a medicine. One could be forgiven for thinking that, since billions of people across the ...

The Bank of England plans to replace historical figures like Winston Churchill and Jane Austen with UK wildlife on future banknotes following a public consultation favouring nature-themed designs.

Aging causes changes in gut bacteria in mice, which hampers communication between the intestines and the brain. Restoring this connection helped old mice form memories as well as young animals.