Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...

The push to abandon animal testing is gaining momentum, driven by the realization that it is costly, unreliable and ...

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 ...

Millions of animals each year are killed in U.S. laboratories as part of medical training and chemical, food, drug and cosmetic testing, according to the non-profit animal rights organization People ...

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 ...

People marching while holding a sign that says “End animal experiments!", with people holding other signs in the background. A demonstration in England on World Day for Laboratory Animals. Despite ...

AI and computational modeling are reducing reliance on animal testing by simulating human biology, improving drug safety and efficacy predictions. Regulatory bodies like the FDA and NIH are endorsing ...

The European Food Safety Authority (ESFA) develops a new platform to model and predict the toxicity of chemicals, signalling the potential to end animal testing. Safety assessments to evaluate the ...

In April, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 85 into law, which requires health-related research facilities to put test dogs and cats up for adoption before euthanizing them when they're ...

A social media video of a former testing animal enjoying his first taste of a frothy pup cup has delighted audiences across the internet. Ted the beagle had spent the first five years of his life in a ...