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 ...

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

From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal smugglers—one gorilla handprint at a time.

The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Ft. Detrick is the major military laboratory of the U.S. Army and the only BSL-4 level laboratory, operating from before ...

Traditional animal models often fall short of predicting human outcomes. High costs and supply chain limitations (such as ...

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

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), hosted a workshop ...

Using a variety of models helps to ensure that the best research is being done to benefit patients and their families.

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

Nearly all of the contracts are with the U.S. Army. The experimentation ranges from several drug toxicology tests on dogs to ...