Real change takes a long time, and when it happens, it must be recognized. The FDA and the NIH have announced their move away ...

The National Institutes of Health has come under fire for continuing to fund experiments on dogs and cats, despite leadership's recent pledge to reduce reliance on animal testing. In April, NIH ...

Hopkins expert Thomas Hartung discusses an announcement by the nation's largest biomedical research funder that it will no longer consider grant proposals that do not include alternative testing model ...

Human organs-on-chips and organoids offer new alternatives to animals for drug development, but there is still a long way to ...

The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Ft. Detrick is the major military laboratory of the U.S. Army and the only BSL-4 level laboratory, operating from before ...

One of the biggest barriers to the adoption of any new biotechnology tool is validation and regulatory clarity.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), hosted a workshop ...

"I don't think we should do research on dogs or cats," NIH Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer said. "Absolutely not." ...

The announcement, made by Acting NIH Deputy Director for Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI), ...

In a historic move, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that it will no longer seek research ...

The NIH will no longer accept grant applications that solely use animal testing models, instead requiring applicants to use AI models for human outcomes.