The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

The government has set out a plan to phase out scientific experimentation on live animals in all but the most exceptional situations. New funding will be given to researchers to support a pivot ...

Stem Pharm, a Madison biotech startup, is using lab-created 3D "organoids" to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. In April, the FDA and NIH announced plans to incentivize so-called "new ...

When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they ...

Testing mice for depression is challenging. “You can’t put a mouse on a psychiatrist’s couch and ask it how it’s feeling,” said Sarah Bailey, who heads the pharmacology group at the University of Bath ...

In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face owls, shotguns, and more poison. As Australia’s ...

Animal testing in Connecticut rakes in millions in federal dollars each year at colleges and universities but, the National Institutes of Health recently announced it is pivoting from using just ...

On Feb. 6, 2025, Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina claimed during a House of Representatives oversight subcommittee meeting that the government had spent $10 million of taxpayer money ...

Mice are indispensable in biomedical research due to their genetic and anatomical similarities to humans, short lifespans, ...