Emerging alternatives to reduce animal testing show promise

New approaches such as tissue engineering, stem cell technologies and computer modelling show promise for replacing animals in some areas of research. The ...

Can Biotechnology Reduce Animal Testing in Medicine? - Labiotech

While it's unlikely that animal disease models can ever be replaced fully, these technologies are changing the face of drug development and reducing our ...

About Animal Testing - Humane Society International

Modern non-animal techniques are already reducing and superseding experiments on animals, and in European Union, the “3Rs” principle of replacement, reduction ...

FDA rule lifted on animal testing for drugs; substitutes not ready

Animal testing is no longer required for new drugs, marking a triumph in scientific research and technology and animal rights activism.

The US Just Greenlit High-Tech Alternatives to Animal Testing

Lab animals have long borne the brunt of drug safety trials. A new law allows drugmakers to use miniature tissue models, or organs-on-chips, instead.

NIST Study Gives Animal Testing Alternatives a Confidence Boost

The researchers built upon on an existing method, improving its efficiency, accessibility and quality controls. Using the new animal-free ...

Exploring alternatives to animal testing in drug discovery

These alternatives offer many advantages, including ethical considerations, reduced costs and improved accuracy. In vitro and in silico methods, ...

Replacing Animal Testing with Stem Cell-Organoids

Alternative solutions have recently been investigated to address the problems of animal testing. Some of these technologies are related to stem ...

Can animal testing be replaced? | C&EN Global Enterprise

“It's not like we haven't tried,” Rudén says. “The requirement to reduce animal tests has been there for a long, long time. And the attempt to ...

E.P.A. Says It Will Drastically Reduce Animal Testing

The agency said it would also invest $4.25 million in projects at four universities and a medical center that are developing alternate ways of ...

Animal Testing: Animals Used in Experiments - PETA

How PETA Helps Animals in Laboratories · Promoting PETA's Research Modernization Deal, the first comprehensive, science-backed plan to phase out tests on animals ...

Alternative Thinking about Animals in Research

Has unchallenged reliance on animal-based research diverted resources from developing what might have and could become other methods of ...

Reducing animal testing - Roche

New methods help to identify promising drug candidates, and at the same time, apply the 3Rs (Reduce, Refine, Replace animal testing).

Will we ever… eliminate animal experimentation? - BBC

Arguably one of the most heated debates in science, efforts to reduce the number of animals used in studies face many barriers, says Alla Katsnelson.

Recent Developments in Alternatives to Animal Testing

For example, the method needs to be validated and accepted for replacing animals to test chemicals and then repeated in order for the method to be considered.

Alternatives to animal testing in toxicity testing: Current status and ...

The development of alternative methods to animal testing has gained great momentum since Russel and Burch introduced the “3Rs” concept of Reduction, ...

New Legislation Moves Away From Animal Testing

Organoids. These hollow, 3D clusters of cells are derived from stem cells and mimic specific tissues. They have shown promise in predicting ...

Could the Next Blockbuster Drug Be Lab-Rat Free?

Congress also allocated $5 million to the F.D.A. to accelerate the development of alternatives to animal testing. Other agencies and countries ...

Animal Research and Testing Achievements

Recently, research has pioneered new ways to prevent and treat infections. ... emerging treatment which shows promise against leukemic cells that have ...

Alternatives to Animal Use in Testing - Princeton University

Although many investigators are moving to less precise LD5O tests, no generally accepted alternative seems to have emerged. The Limit Test and. Other ...