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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 ...

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 ...

A social media post from the US Food and Drug Administration this week shows a big-eyed macaque staring out from behind bars. “Some drugs use 144 monkeys on average for preclinical testing,” the post ...

For generations, U.S. laboratories treated animal testing as an unquestioned prerequisite for new drugs and chemicals, even as the ethical toll mounted. Now, after centuries of routine cruelty, the ...

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued new guidance on how marketing applicants can use non-animal data in their applications. The move comes on the heels of a ...