Around 348 B.C., Aristotle took a two-year trip to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to study animals in a lagoon. Along with observing the creatures in their natural habitat and surmising, among ...

Several mice sit in a plastic container on a shelf with food pellets and a water bottle overhead and sawdust beneath them. Mice in a laboratory. The European Union published a roadmap this week on ...

Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...

The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is taking two key steps to eliminate animal testing. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expanding its list of “cutting-edge” alternative ...

Many products that Americans use every day — from makeup to sunscreens — are tested on animals for safety. But experts say the safety data can be gathered using more modern methods that don’t involve ...

Replacing animal testing with alternate methodologies in preclinical drug trials holds potential for the development of cheaper, safer pharmaceuticals as well as alleviating animal suffering. But ...

The European Commission has adopted a roadmap to phase out the use of animals in chemical safety assessments, including for pharmaceuticals. The plan, published on 1 June, describes how animal testing ...

“The FDA’s animal testing requirement will be reduced, refined, or potentially replaced using a range of approaches,” the agency said, including AI-based computational models about how toxic a ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) methods of finding results of various previous animal tests are now being seen by researchers as a good substitute for new and unnecessary animal tests. Researchers have ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed guidance to reduce the need for animal testing in the development of oncology drugs as part of its broader efforts to reduce animal testing in ...

Recent years have seen a growing movement away from animal testing and toward models that more closely replicate human physiology. This shift aims to protect animal welfare while concurrently ...