Central Park’s carriage-horse drivers have said “neigh” to allowing the city to test their animals for drugs, injuries and ...

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

In April 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its Roadmap to Reducing Animal Testing in Preclinical Safety Studies—a landmark initiative that lays out a plan to make animal ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – After losing three elephants to the same disease at the Albuquerque BioPark, the zoo is moving forward with building what they hope is a new line of defense: a special lab ...

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

For thousands of years, humans have studied animals’ bodies to better understand our own. But using other animals as a proxy for humans is far from perfect. There are ethical issues for one, and they ...

On today's episode of the 5 Things podcast: A bill became law late last year that could mean the end of testing drugs on animals eventually. It's called the FDA Modernization Act 2.0. The law has ...

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.

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...