The National Institutes of Health has come under fire for continuing to fund experiments on dogs and cats, despite leadership's recent pledge to reduce reliance on animal testing. In April, NIH ...

Hopkins expert Thomas Hartung discusses an announcement by the nation's largest biomedical research funder that it will no longer consider grant proposals that do not include alternative testing model ...

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

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), hosted a workshop ...

The portrayal of uncaring scientists without any thought for the animals being used in their research is far from the truth.

The announcement, made by Acting NIH Deputy Director for Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI), ...

In a historic move, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that it will no longer seek research ...

The NIH will no longer accept grant applications that solely use animal testing models, instead requiring applicants to use AI models for human outcomes.

A focused review published in the journal Research Integrity and Peer Review has found that Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC) provide surprisingly little protection for animals in ...

Researchers examine how the use of animal testing to identify endocrine-disrupting substances in the EU can be reduced. Although it is, in principle, possible to identify such substances without ...

Traditional and new laboratory tools along with advances in AI are outlining a new paradigm in human disease modeling.