As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.

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 ...

Every year, more than 100 million animals are used globally in biomedical research, yet over 90% of drugs that appear effective in animal trials fail during human clinical testing. 1 This staggering ...

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Animal models continue to be a mainstay of basic research and preclinical studies. But since animals such as mice only approximate humans, they may generate findings of limited clinical relevance.

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types. Now, researchers have succeeded for the first time in recreating this ...

As non-animal models move mainstream, the focus is shifting toward reproducibility and data integrity. By using specialized ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...