Real change takes a long time, and when it happens, it must be recognized. The FDA and the NIH have announced their move away ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Traditional animal models often fall short of predicting human outcomes. High costs and supply chain limitations (such as ...

One of the biggest barriers to the adoption of any new biotechnology tool is validation and regulatory clarity.

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.