Scientists are using postmortem human brains to test new drugs. Discover how this breakthrough is changing medicine and ...

A Cambridge-led team has developed an early-stage vaccine platform that uses computational design to ...

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it is expanding its list of approved alternatives to animal ...

R3 Bio wants to grow human bodies without brains, which could replace lab animals in drug research and one day supply organs ...

China sent synthetic human embryos to its space station this month, the first experiment of its kind. The goal is to determine whether one of the earliest stages of human development can withstand ...

Organoids, organs-on-a-chip, and machine learning technologies have improved dramatically in recent years, but have they come far enough to replace animal research? Additionally, despite attempts to ...

Assessing the toxicity of food contaminants—including carcinogenic potential—is a major challenge in evaluating the risks associated with exposure. In recent years, as part of efforts to reduce animal ...

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 ...