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 U.S. is a nation of animal lovers. According to a Forbes survey, almost 66 percent of American households have pets. Pet ownership has increased significantly over the past three decades. However, ...

Recent years have seen a growing movement away from animal testing and toward models that more closely replicate human physiology. This shift aims to protect animal welfare while concurrently ...

In April, the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced its decision to phase out animal testing requirements for ...

FDA and NIH recently announced initiatives outlining specific actions each agency will take to encourage greater adoption of new and emerging technologies to reduce the need for — and potentially ...

Awareness, especially self-awareness, is very difficult to study.  Self-awareness evolved among our animal ancestors and is ...

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