What do you know about our modern era of brands and product testing on animals? Animal testing was once a routine part of ...

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...

The FDA has released new guidance reducing the need for animal testing in monoclonal antibody cancer drugs when human-based ...

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 ...

My name is Adeline Gustafson. I am a ninth grader at Charlottesville High School. Last month, when I was assigned to write a research paper on a topic that mattered to me, I decided to research animal ...

In April 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its Roadmap to Reducing Animal Testing in Preclinical Safety Studies—a landmark initiative that lays out a plan to make animal ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

For decades, preclinical testing in mice, rats, and nonhuman primates has been a crucial part of drug development, an important although not infallible way to ensure some measure of safety for human ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...

After several lawmakers criticized the Pentagon for sanctioning painful experiments on dogs, an animal-testing watchdog group said the Defense Department is only the latest agency to be exposed. Now, ...

Sunscreens are essential in the fight against skin cancer. The FDA, in its proposed order on sunscreen products, ignored the best science and required expensive and outdated animal tests on ...