While Catharine Krebs was working in a human-genetics laboratory during her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles, there was a line that she got used to seeing at the end of papers: “These ...

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently sought input on ways to accelerate the American scientific ...

Explore the shift from animal testing to innovative, human-relevant methodologies in pharmaceutical research for ethical and ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is following in the FDA’s footsteps—away from animal testing. The NIH plans to establish a new office meant to develop nonanimal methods for biomedical research ...

The National Institutes of Health recently announced a landmark initiative to expand human-based science while reducing animal use. The world’s largest funder of biomedical and public health research ...

A recent op-ed in The Hill praising the National Institutes of Health’s new initiative to promote human-based technologies as a “major victory for animal ethics in science” oversimplifies a far more ...

LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...

It wasn’t just a favorite childhood pet, or the fact that she cares deeply for animals, that led Nicole Kleinstreuer to help launch the National Institutes of Health’s initiative to scale back ...

The use of animals in science research has a long-storied history of success; almost every modern-day medical drug or treatment was either first developed or discovered through the use of animals.

With the National Institutes of Health shifting funding toward human-relevant, non-animal science, Connecticut’s leadership in bioscience has a timely opportunity to champion research methods that ...

Todd M. Freeberg does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...