FOR BIOTECH, DEB, IT REALLY IS. IN THE PAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION, MARYLAND’S GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSED A BILL PROVIDING GRANTS TO MARYLAND SCIENTISTS WHO DEVELOP NON ANIMAL BASED RESEARCH METHODS. IT WAS ...

In a landmark decision poised to revolutionize drug development, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new initiative to significantly reduce, refine, and replace animal testing ...

95% of clinical trials fail because animal testing is no substitute for human biology - Vivodyne’s robotics platform grows thousands of human tissues daily, directly tackling the biological gap behind ...

Stem Pharm, a Madison biotech startup, is using lab-created 3D "organoids" to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. In April, the FDA and NIH announced plans to incentivize so-called "new ...

Ascension St. John’s Human Performance Lab helps people measure heart health and build fitness plans for the year ahead.

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 ...

The Department of Transportation is revising a requirement that it calls an “inadvertent factual impossibility” from its drug testing procedures. A provision from DOT’s 2023 oral fluid drug testing ...

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...

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