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Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

A lawsuit accuses Macalester College of violating state consumer fraud laws “by advertising itself as a model of compliance” with ethical animal research guidelines, while killing small animals in ...

Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – BROOKLYN/STATEN ISLAND Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11) last week introduced legislation in Congress that would ban most animal testing in federal labs, named the Safeguard Pets, ...

Explore the debate surrounding animal testing as new methods may jeopardise patient safety if not properly validated.

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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced earlier this month that it will be phasing out animal testing for some new drugs, and instead be using “more effective, human-relevant methods” such as ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...

Sentient is a manipulative and condescending documentary that lambasts animal testing without giving solid alternatives.