Animal models have long shaped how biomedical research is conducted. They have influenced how diseases are studied, how ...

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Animal models are established, important tools for preclinical safety and efficacy testing. Companies are advancing more “humanized” models to better reflect human responses, while at the same time ...

A team from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBneuro) has discovered that early and sustained ...

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Tech advances already show a future of testing in which we might not have to suffer and die while waiting for systems that ...

Medical researchers have used animals, particularly mice, to mimic disease and study biological phenomena. The origin of mice as a standard model system for scientific research can extend back to the ...

A recent op-ed in The Hill praising the National Institutes of Health’s new initiative to promote human-based technologies as a “major victory for animal ethics in science” oversimplifies a far more ...

Despite decades of independent progress in population ecology and movement ecology, researchers have lacked a theoretical bridge between these two disciplines. "Ecologists have been trying to ...

Periodontal disease, represented by periodontitis, is the leading cause of tooth loss and affects close to one in five adults worldwide. In most cases, this condition occurs as a result of an ...

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 ...

When developing drugs, we rely on animal models to test drugs in an entire system before first-in-human studies. However, animals aren’t human and interspecies differences in pharmacology, physiology, ...