The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its new 2025 Guidelines on the replacement or removal of animal tests for the quality control of biological products.

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The government has detailed for the first time how it aims to fulfil its manifesto pledge to work toward phasing out animal testing. The new plans include replacing animal testing for some major ...

Until January 9, 2026, the Ontario government is inviting public comments on a proposal to ban cruel experiments on dogs and ...

The National Institutes of Health recently announced a landmark initiative to expand human-based science while reducing animal use. The world’s largest funder of biomedical and public health research ...

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This story is part of a collaboration with The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina. A federal health agency that has promised to scale back its animal research has drawn the attention of ...

Around 348 B.C., Aristotle took a two-year trip to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to study animals in a lagoon. Along with observing the creatures in their natural habitat and surmising, among ...

A House committee will hold a hearing this week scrutinizing whether National Institutes of Health animal research amounts to unnecessary animal cruelty, just as the Department of Government ...