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FDA announces plan to phase out some animal testing
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is shifting away from animal testing in the development of monoclonal ...
To promote drug safety, FDA to replace animal testing with AI-based experiments, other methods
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is replacing animal testing with human-relevant methods, including artificial ...
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New AI Models Claim to ‘Talk to the Animals’ Like Dr. Dolittle: Here’s What You Need to Know
An AI model called NatureLM-audio is helping researchers decode animal communication, potentially unlocking interspecies ...
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FDA’s Plan to Replace Animal Testing Begins a ‘New Era for Drug Testing,’ says Doctors Group
The nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which promotes the use of human-relevant test methods to replace ...
Experimental bird flu vaccine excels in animal models
A vaccine under development at the University at Buffalo has demonstrated complete protection in mice against a deadly ...
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USDA issues warning to EVMS on violations in animal experiments
NORFOLK, Va. — The Eastern Virginia Medical School has received an official warning from the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding the care of animals undergoing experiments. The notice ...
New possibilities for animal-computer interaction to benefit zoo animals and visitors
New technology that allows zoo animals and their human visitors to share experiences could have positive benefits for both, ...
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Experimenting on animals
Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...
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FDA Phase Out of Animal Test Requirements for Drugs Begins With Biologics
The FDA laid out a three-year roadmap to phase out animal toxicity testing in drug research. In addition to organoids and lab ...
This ‘Poo Zoo’ is harvesting living cells from animal dung
Researchers have developed a method to extract living cells from feces that they say could help conservationists better ...