I t should be a relief when America’s Democrats and Republicans find common ground. But one emerging area of bipartisanship ...

Animal testing remains one of the most controversial parts of modern science. Every year, millions of animals are used in ...

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Carlin is a vice president at Pathway Policy Group and a veterinarian. Paragas is the CEO and founder of DVLP Medicines and a virologist. The Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to phase ...

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, ...

The recent creation of the NIH Office of Research Integrity, Validation, and Adoption of New Approach Methodologies (ORIVA) is more than just an administrative shift. It represents a historic ...

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 ...

If you are like most people, you probably think animal testing has already been outlawed. With so many companies marketing their products as “cruelty-free,” it’s easy to assume the practice is a relic ...

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In April of this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new roadmap that aims to replace animal testing in the development of new drugs with more human-relevant methods. The goal is ...