The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it is embracing a new program aimed at expanding innovative, human-based science to decrease the use of animals in research. According to the NIH, ...

The use of animals in science research has a long-storied history of success; almost every modern-day medical drug or treatment was either first developed or discovered through the use of animals.

Scientific progress is achieved by robust experiments that generate reliable and reproducible results to be used with confidence by the research community. Recent publications have drawn attention to ...

LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...

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 ...

Two agencies within the US Department of Health and Human Services have announced plans to move away from the use of animals in research and testing and transition toward nonanimal models. These ...