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 ...

New plan backs researchers to seize on new and developing opportunities to phase out animal tests with specific commitments for the coming years. Animal testing in science is set to be phased out ...

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 ...

FDA and NIH recently announced initiatives outlining specific actions each agency will take to encourage greater adoption of new and emerging technologies to reduce the need for — and potentially ...

Initiative focuses on innovation, partnerships, and advocacy as part of $500 million investment in driving change Understanding that stakeholders across drug development must collaborate to pursue ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

While Catharine Krebs was working in a human-genetics laboratory during her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles, there was a line that she got used to seeing at the end of papers: “These ...

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Public Health, Colorado State University A vast number of chemicals are registered for production and use around the world ...

Reliable methods for identifying rodents play an important role in ensuring the success of preclinical studies. However, animal identification remains a trivial laboratory routine that is not often ...