Despite the recent buzz, the effort to reduce animal testing in favor of NAMs has been underway for years. The VQN falls ...

If drug developers are allowed to skip this step, it will mean that, in the near future, the first living body a new drug is ever tested in will be a human.

President Donald Trump is saving the puppies. Sounds fanciful, but it’s true. Days after Trump won the 2024 election, I predicted that the president would save taxpayer dollars and put an end to cruel ...

Walt Disney World is now testing a new type of signage to mark the end of the line for character meet and greets.

PETA applauds Republican lawmakers urging NIH to stop funding animal experiments in foreign labs, supporting the CARGO Act to prevent taxpayer dollars funding unethical research.

The U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) is continuing to fund controversial research on dogs and cats, despite promising to move away from using animal testing. On April 29, NIH director Jay ...

Human organs-on-chips and organoids offer new alternatives to animals for drug development, but there is still a long way to go.

From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal ...

How researchers measure the logical reasoning of monkeys, pigeons, rats, fish and wasps shapes how they understand mental processes in animals − and in people.

Thomas Hartung, MD, PhD Director, Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) The evolving role of animal models While the FDA’s revised mandate broadly addresses “animal studies,” its ...

For many animals held captive for research, pain is "not minimized," U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows.