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How animal testing in US could be transformed under Trump

Millions of animals each year are killed in U.S. laboratories as part of medical training and chemical, food, drug and cosmetic testing, according to the non-profit animal rights organization People ...
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Trump admin eliminating animal testing in EPA, shifting to new options that are faster and more accurate

The Environmental Protection Agency is on a fast track toward eliminating animal testing, according to EPA Administrator Lee ...
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To promote drug safety, FDA to replace animal testing with AI-based experiments, other methods

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FDA Commissioner Martin Makary on Thursday announced a move away from animal-based drug testing in favor of human-based methods ...
STAT

The end to animal testing marks the beginning of better biomedicine

Carlin is a vice president at Pathway Policy Group and a veterinarian. Paragas is the CEO and founder of DVLP Medicines and a virologist. The Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to phase ...
Nature

A generative adversarial network model alternative to animal studies for clinical pathology assessment

Animal studies are unavoidable in evaluating chemical and drug safety. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate synthetic animal data by learning from the legacy animal study results, thus ...
FoodNavigator

Is animal-free testing for food on the horizon?

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 ...
Hartford Courant

Animal research and testing brings millions to CT each year. That could change drastically.

Animal testing in Connecticut rakes in millions in federal dollars each year at colleges and universities but, the National Institutes of Health recently announced it is pivoting from using just ...
Reuters

British drug regulator plans framework to reduce animal testing reliance

March 25 (Reuters) - Britain's medicines regulator said on Wednesday it will introduce a framework by the end of 2026, which would allow drugmakers to ask a review of the ‌data for drugs being ...
RAPS

MHRA moves to reduce animal testing with new guidance

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued new guidance on how marketing applicants can use non-animal data in their applications. The move comes on the heels of a ...
IFLScience

Is Animal Testing Necessary – And Where Are We On Alternatives?

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia congressman’s bill could reduce animal testing for cosmetics, drugs

Many products that Americans use every day — from makeup to sunscreens — are tested on animals for safety. But experts say the safety data can be gathered using more modern methods that don’t involve ...