The Hill

Cutting animal testing will jeopardize human health

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 ...
STAT

Modern animal models for biomedical research remain far better than alternatives

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 ...
THE WEEK

How the UK will eradicate animal testing

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 ...
Taipei Times

Program strives to get rid of animal medical testing

The program subsidizes schools to develop courses on non-animal alternative models, including 3D mapping, digital imaging, ...
WHYY

For decades, scientists have used the mouse forced swim test to study depression. Now some are reconsidering it

Testing mice for depression is challenging. “You can’t put a mouse on a psychiatrist’s couch and ask it how it’s feeling,” said Sarah Bailey, who heads the pharmacology group at the University of Bath ...

Alzheimer's disease can be reversed in animal models to achieve full neurological recovery

For over a century, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been considered irreversible. Consequently, research has focused on disease ...