Animal models are established, important tools for preclinical safety and efficacy testing. Companies are advancing more “humanized” models to better reflect human responses, while at the same time ...
Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...
The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...
It would halt lifesaving discoveries and place patients at risk ...
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A research team at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has developed a novel live-attenuated ...
A recent op-ed in The Hill praising the National Institutes of Health’s new initiative to promote human-based technologies as a “major victory for animal ethics in science” oversimplifies a far more ...
K. C. Kent Lloyd is a professor in the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, director of the Mouse Biology Program and NAMs Testing Center and associate director of the Comprehensive Cancer ...
When developing drugs, we rely on animal models to test drugs in an entire system before first-in-human studies. However, animals aren’t human and interspecies differences in pharmacology, physiology, ...