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 ...

Drug developers will be able to use alternatives to animal testing and possibly get new products to market faster under draft guidance issued Wednesday by the FDA. In a press release, officials said ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. While the use of animals to test the safety of cosmetic products in the U.S. is legal, a number of states have brought in ...

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For thousands of years, humans have studied animals’ bodies to better understand our own. But using other animals as a proxy for humans is far from perfect. There are ethical issues for one, and they ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is loosening its requirement for animal testing of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and other drugs, the agency said in an announcement. In its place, FDA will ...

Advanced in organs on chips, digital twins, and AI are ushering in a new era of research and drug development. Earlier this week, the UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out ...