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Many of the medicines in our cupboards and products on our shelves today are tested on animals before they are released to market. But the reality is, most of these tests are a waste of time. More ...

Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...

Jonathan Yen, director of therapeutic genome engineering at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, optimizes and tests new gene therapies for sickle cell disease — in which an abnormal form of ...

The National Institutes of Health announced last week that it will no longer issue funding calls for grant proposals that rely solely on animal testing. Moving forward, all such calls must also ...

The European Food Safety Authority (ESFA) develops a new platform to model and predict the toxicity of chemicals, signalling the potential to end animal testing. Safety assessments to evaluate the ...

Using animals for biomedical research purposes has been a significant part of scientific studies for a long time. Animal models provide crucial information about human diseases, treatments, and ...

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