Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, revived a plan created during the first Trump administration to end the testing of ...

Congress passed another batch of federal appropriations bills last week, providing new funding levels for the Environmental ...

A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report provides an overview of new approach methods in human health risk assessment of chemicals, and calls on the U.S. Environmental ...

To test whether chemicals are toxic to humans, researchers need to use liver cells that have been freshly harvested from mice or other mammals. A new collection of stable cell lines, described in BMC ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

To this day, animal testing remains one of the most controversial issues in animal rights. Activists have been fighting ...

Jessica Scott-Reid is a freelance journalist and animal advocate based in Winnipeg. In 2016, when Canadian scientist Dr. Charu Chandrasekera was attending international meetings on developing ...

Challenging risk assessment methods used for decades by toxicologists, a new review of the literature suggests that oral gavage, the most widely accepted method of dosing lab animals to test chemical ...

Dublin, Feb. 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "In-Vitro Toxicology/Toxicity Testing Market by Product & Services, Toxicity Endpoint & Test (Carcinogenicity, Dermal ...

The senators introduced the legislation in May, just two weeks before Lautenberg’s death. So important was this bill to the late senator, people close to him such as former New Jersey governor Thomas ...

To test whether chemicals are toxic to humans, researchers need to use liver cells that have been freshly harvested from mice or other mammals. A new collection of stable cell lines, described in BMC ...