The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

Scientists have created genetically modified mice whose sperm glows, allowing researchers to watch male fertility inside the ...

The government has set out a plan to phase out scientific experimentation on live animals in all but the most exceptional situations. New funding will be given to researchers to support a pivot ...

Alzheimer’s disease has long been the nightmare diagnosis that medicine could slow at best, not stop. Now a wave of ...

In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face owls, shotguns, and more poison. As Australia’s ...

Now a team of Brazilian scientists has put that tradition through a modern stress test: standardized extracts, controlled ...