Animal testing has shaped medicine for decades. Discover new alternatives, changing laws, and the future of humane science.

Around 348 B.C., Aristotle took a two-year trip to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to study animals in a lagoon. Along with observing the creatures in their natural habitat and surmising, among ...

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 ...

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 ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. While the use of animals to test the safety of cosmetic products in the U.S. is legal, a number of states have brought in ...

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 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is loosening its requirement for animal testing of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and other drugs, the agency said in an announcement. In its place, FDA will ...

The Trump administration is redoubling its efforts to phase out animal testing in drug development and seeking to develop new biotechnology methods instead to spur innovation in the pharmaceutical ...