Every year, millions of animals are used in laboratories, and for many people, the image is immediate and uncomfortable: animals in cages, subjected to painful tests for products that may not seem ...

Following the trend of other regulators, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is taking steps to reduce the need for animal testing. The agency has issued a draft qualification opinion for a new ...

A social media post from the US Food and Drug Administration this week shows a big-eyed macaque staring out from behind bars. “Some drugs use 144 monkeys on average for preclinical testing,” the post ...