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

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, ...

Animal models from the Jackson Laboratory are available that reflect the genetic diversity of human populations. Taking genetic diversity into account is particularly important in basic research or ...

Too often, preclinical successes are followed by clinical failures. And all clinical failures hurt. Perhaps the most painful failures occur in trials that require large patient populations and long ...

Preclinical testing is vital for assessing the safety profiles and potential efficacy of new therapeutics in development. Animal testing is one of two routes usually selected for the preclinical stage ...

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 testing remains to be a vital part of modern preclinical testing. While the ethics of the use of animals in medical testing remains keenly debated, it is still generally accepted worldwide and ...

I recently read a highly-detailed, comprehensive, science-based report called The Research Modernization Deal 2021. It unambiguously shows that numerous experiments on nonhuman animals (animals) fail ...