There are a lot of hot-button questions when it comes to the ethics of scientific research, but the perennial issue of animal testing seems to incite fever-pitched anger on both side of the debate.

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he is coordinating with federal agencies to end federally funded animal testing and ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its new 2025 Guidelines on the replacement or removal of animal tests for the quality control of biological products.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently sought input on ways to accelerate the American scientific ...

Recent years have seen a growing movement away from animal testing and toward models that more closely replicate human physiology. This shift aims to protect animal welfare while concurrently ...

Millions of animals each year are killed in U.S. laboratories as part of medical training and chemical, food, drug and cosmetic testing, according to the non-profit animal rights organization People ...

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 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 ...

The push to abandon animal testing is gaining momentum, driven by the realization that it is costly, unreliable and ...

Bill Maher recently called the National Institute of Health “medieval barbers,” funding “pointless” testing on animals. In the past, he has urged his audience to “listen to PETA” (People for the ...

The shift is part of a government-wide effort to phase out the use of live animals in federally sponsored tests, studies and ...