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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 ...

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 ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said this weekend that he is working across the government to end all federally funded animal testing. "All the major agency heads are ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Millions of animals each year are killed in U.S. laboratories as part ...

The National Institutes of Health announced last week that it will no longer issue funding calls for grant proposals that rely solely on animal testing. Moving forward, all such calls must also ...

Animal testing in Connecticut rakes in millions in federal dollars each year at colleges and universities but, the National Institutes of Health recently announced it is pivoting from using just ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. 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 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released draft guidance aimed at assisting pharmaceutical manufacturers in transitioning from animal studies to non-animal alternatives for drug ...

Following the trend of other regulators, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is taking steps to reduce the need for animal testing. The agency has issued a draft qualification opinion for a new ...