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 ...
For generations people have associated the terms "lab rat" and "guinea pig" with scientific research. Animal testing remains a standard and has been required for drug approval. Just before Christmas, ...
Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...
Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...
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The reality of animal testing today
Today’s animal testing differs from how it was back in the day. It’s typically done on a specific ingredient rather than a finished product, and there are often regulatory requirements based on ...
Marissa Russo is a former STAT intern supported by the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship. Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on ...
Animal testing in Connecticut rakes in millions in federal dollars each year at colleges and universities but, the National Institutes of Health recently announced it is pivoting from using just ...
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