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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 ...

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

The European Food Safety Authority (ESFA) develops a new platform to model and predict the toxicity of chemicals, signalling the potential to end animal testing. Safety assessments to evaluate the ...

Organoids, organs-on-a-chip, and machine learning technologies have improved dramatically in recent years, but have they come far enough to replace animal research? Additionally, despite attempts to ...

The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Scholars warn that replacing animal testing too quickly may threaten drug safety. As the FDA promotes AI and organoids, ...

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 laws to ban the practice. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notes that ...

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 ...