Ford Motor Company is joining General Motors and Stellantis in promising to ban all animal testing from facilities up and down the automotive supply chain after a campaign from People for the Ethical ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Institutes of Health defended a grant awarded to a study experimenting on 2-month-old kittens after the agency promised to “phase out” dog and cat testing. The study involves surgeons ...

The National Institutes of Health announced on Monday that the biomedical agency will no longer put out new funding opportunities solely relying upon animal testing and will require that applicants ...

The National Institutes of Health announced on Monday that the biomedical agency will no longer award funding to new grant proposals solely relying upon animal testing and will require that applicants ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Dec. 2, 2025, issued its draft guidance on Monoclonal Antibodies: Streamlined Nonclinical Safety Studies Guidance for Industry, the agency's most recent ...

For decades, preclinical testing in mice, rats, and nonhuman primates has been a crucial part of drug development, an important although not infallible way to ensure some measure of safety for human ...

New drugs are generally tested on animals such as mice and rats before being tested on people. The results of these animal studies are often reported in the media, perhaps raising hope these “miracle” ...