In April 2025, the FDA announced plans to shift biomedical research for monoclonal antibodies and other medications away from animal testing toward new approaches. One year later, much speculation ...

Animal testing, long used in science, is considered outdated, cruel and unnecessary. Every year, millions of animals are subjected to painful experiments in laboratories, often resulting in permanent ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced it plans to phase out animal testing in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs and biological products “with ...

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 ...

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here In an unexpected move, the US Food and Drug ...