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.

The commitment, made by the first Trump administration, was ditched by the Biden administration in favor of more flexibility and no firm deadline.

The Trump administration is advancing its efforts to wind down animal testing, aiming to transition at least one of seven national primate research centers into an animal sanctuary, Sophie reports.

Following Congress’s repeal of the FDA’s long-standing animal testing requirement, the Environmental Protection Agency is now ...

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

Replacing animal testing with alternate methodologies in preclinical drug trials holds potential for the development of ...

Experiments on animals (“in vivo” experiments) have long been the norm for learning about human health and disease, because testing on live animals enables researchers to investigate how chemicals, ...

Professor Monica Gotta's research on the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans was recognised for its quality and societal relevance by the Foundation Philantropia this year and the Foundation Naef ...

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

When Nives Ilic adopted a six-year-old dog that had been used for animal research, she was apprehensive that bringing home an animal with behavioural challenges would upend her life. But Mack ...

Dr. Katherine Roe of PETA on rethinking animal testing, emerging science methods, and how women scientists are reshaping research and funding.