There are a lot of hot-button questions when it comes to the ethics of scientific research, but the perennial issue of animal testing seems to incite fever-pitched anger on both side of the debate.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its new 2025 Guidelines on the replacement or removal of animal tests for the quality control of biological products.

Animal testing in Connecticut rakes in millions in federal dollars each year at colleges and universities but, the National Institutes of Health recently announced it is pivoting from using just ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A national physicians group is denouncing Oregon Health and Science University’s use of live animals for medical training. More than 500 members of the Physicians Committee for ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – BROOKLYN/STATEN ISLAND Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11) last week introduced legislation in Congress that would ban most animal testing in federal labs, named the Safeguard Pets, ...

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 ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...