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Effort to end animal testing grows, but alternatives still fall short

Federal regulators in the United States are pushing harder than ever to reduce and eventually replace animal testing in drug ...

Trump HHS ramps up biotech to phase out animal testing

The Trump administration is redoubling its efforts to phase out animal testing in drug development and seeking to develop new biotechnology methods instead to spur innovation in the pharmaceutical ...

US FDA pushes for new methods to replace animal testing in early drug studies

March 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued a draft guidance to help companies reduce animal studies of experimental drugs and adopt newer methods, such as computer ...
AOL

FDA says it will phase out animal testing requirement for monoclonal antibodies and drugs

The US Food and Drug Administration says its animal testing requirements "will be reduced, refined, or potentially replaced using a range of approaches." - Andrew Harnik/AP The US Food and Drug ...
Healio

FDA efforts to reduce animal testing signal shift toward AI, organ-on-chip study methods

In April 2025, the FDA announced plans to shift biomedical research for monoclonal antibodies and other medications away from animal testing toward new approaches. One year later, much speculation ...
Morning Overview on MSN

FDA urges alternatives to animal testing in early-stage drug development

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is actively steering drug developers away from traditional animal studies and toward human-biology-based testing methods for monoclonal antibody programs. The ...
Washington Examiner

For the FDA, non-animal testing methods are the path forward

When we imagine the process of developing new drugs, we often picture scientists working with cutting-edge technology in gleaming laboratories. But there’s a side of pharmaceutical research that is ...
WLKY

FDA says it will phase out animal testing requirement for monoclonal antibodies, drugs

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will be phasing out a requirement that monoclonal antibodies and other drugs be tested on animals, saying in a news release that there ...