Due to advancements in genetic engineering, small animal models are continuing to change in response to market needs. Model developers strive to better reflect the role of this important asset in both ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...

Ace Therapeutics announced custom animal models of hypertension, designed to help understand hypertension pathogenesis ...

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 ...

Animal models have long shaped how biomedical research is conducted. They have influenced how diseases are studied, how ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. 1 As discussed in Chapter 2, current animal models do not adequately reflect the human ...