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Animal testing alternatives to dominate, but not overnight

In a bid to prioritise more human-relevant models, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has enforced a plan to phase out animal testing for monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in the preclinical stage, ...
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FDA efforts to reduce animal testing signal shift toward AI, organ-on-chip study methods

In April 2025, the FDA announced plans to shift biomedical research for monoclonal antibodies and other medications away from animal testing toward new approaches. One year later, much speculation ...
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Animal Testing: Which Products Still Use Animals and What Are the Alternatives?

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 ...
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The end to animal testing marks the beginning of better biomedicine

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 ...
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FDA says it will phase out animal testing requirement for monoclonal antibodies, drugs

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 ...