The U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) is continuing to fund controversial research on dogs and cats, despite promising to move away from using animal testing. On April 29, NIH director Jay ...

Hopkins expert Thomas Hartung discusses an announcement by the nation's largest biomedical research funder that it will no longer consider grant proposals that do not include alternative testing model ...

The Trump administration is removing dozens of vetted scientists from National Institutes of Health (NIH) advisory councils, ...

Human organs-on-chips and organoids offer new alternatives to animals for drug development, but there is still a long way to ...

One of the biggest barriers to the adoption of any new biotechnology tool is validation and regulatory clarity.

"I don't think we should do research on dogs or cats," NIH Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer said. "Absolutely not." ...

The NIH will no longer accept grant applications that solely use animal testing models, instead requiring applicants to use AI models for human outcomes.

A focused review published in the journal Research Integrity and Peer Review has found that Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC) provide surprisingly little protection for animals in ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hoping to find homes for some of its testing animals held for research conducted ...

Traditional and new laboratory tools along with advances in AI are outlining a new paradigm in human disease modeling.

The federal government is pushing alternatives to animal testing. A Wisconsin-based laboratory is leading the way.