The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced a strategic roadmap to phase out animal testing requirements for certain drug products, starting with monoclonal antibodies. This shift ...

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 ...

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued new guidance on how marketing applicants can use non-animal data in their applications. The move comes on the heels of a ...

A social media post from the US Food and Drug Administration this week shows a big-eyed macaque staring out from behind bars. “Some drugs use 144 monkeys on average for preclinical testing,” the post ...

Well before a human receives the first dose of an experimental drug, it’s evaluated in an animal to test for toxicity. Monkeys are often chosen for their genetic similarities to humans, and safe ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carlin is a vice president at Pathway Policy Group and a veterinarian. Paragas is the CEO and founder of DVLP Medicines and a virologist. The Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to phase ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced it plans to phase out animal testing in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs and biological products “with ...

A small white laboratory mouse in the hand of a scientist in a blue rubber glove. Woman puts experiments on a laboratory mouse.© Yanya/Shutterstock.com Every year, millions of animals are used in ...