1, 1991 The issue of animal experiments is straightforward ... exhausting wild populations to state that alternatives to testing on animals must be used when available and that the number of ...

Members of Congress exploded Thursday over reports that taxpayer money has paid for experiments using “transgender lab rats,” saying it was time to shut down the government’s animal-testing industry.

The US National Academy of Sciences released a report in 2007 envisioning a future in which animals would largely disappear from toxicity testing programs. The report, drafted by a panel of experts, ...

Dr. Thomas Hartung explains how AI and microphysiological systems (MPS) are changing drug safety testing. These human-relevant models offer faster, more ethical alternatives to animal testing.

The Animals Act of 1986, for example, insists that no animal experiments be conducted if there is a realistic alternative. Testing on animals now requires three Home Office licences - for the ...

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During a House subcommittee hearing last week, Republican Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina shared findings from a ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Until now scientists conducted most biomedical research through animal testing—which often doesn’t translate ...

As an extreme example, a pesticide undergoes about 30 animal tests, costing about $20 million and consuming more than 10,000 mice, rats, rabbits, and dogs over five years. About 20 kilograms of the ...