Brenner is a physician-scientist and president and chief executive officer of Sanford Burnham Prebys and lives in La Jolla. In 1937, there was great demand for a new way to treat streptococcal ...

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...

Before a new drug can begin clinical trials in humans, it gets tested on animals. But things are changing. Late last year, Congress passed the FDA Modernization Act 2.0, which cleared the way for new ...

The FDA’s emerging framework represents more than a regulatory update; it is a paradigm shift toward human-relevant, ...

In a Policy Forum, Chad Nelson and colleagues highlight the efforts of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in advancing alternative methods to reduce animal testing for regulatory use. Animal ...

What do you know about our modern era of brands and product testing on animals? Animal testing was once a routine part of ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will be phasing out a requirement that monoclonal antibodies and other drugs be tested on animals, saying in a news release that there ...

A rare moment of bipartisan progress has emerged with the Senate’s unanimous passage of the FDA Modernization Act 3.0, ...

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.