Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” ...
R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term ...
A group of scientists from a biotechnology startup known as R3 Bio have created multi-organ biological platforms know as ...
U.S. Senator Gary Peters, MI, helped reintroduce the Animal Freedom from Testing, Experimentation, and Research (AFTER) Act. The bipartisan legislation would ensure that every federal agency that uses ...
President Donald Trump’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving to end animal testing practices involving beagles, ...
Stem Pharm, a Madison biotech startup, is using lab-created 3D "organoids" to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. In April, the FDA and NIH announced plans to incentivize so-called "new ...
The FDA has released draft guidance that aims to clear up how drug developers can use alternative testing – but that doesn’t ...
Ms. Blum is the author of “The Monkey Wars,” a book about ethical issues in animal research. Early in my career as a science journalist, I visited a primate research laboratory that was running an ...