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Beagles are often used in laboratory animal testing. They are considered balanced, friendly to humans, and able to endure a lot. PETBOOK reports on the suffering they endure and what happens to the ...

On April 10, the Food and Drug Administration announced plans to phase out animal testing requirements for the development of monoclonal antibodies — used to treat a variety of diseases ...

The FDA says that over the next 3–5 years it aims “to make animal studies the exception rather than the norm” for preclinical safety testing, starting with monoclonal antibodies and ...

The FDA plans to reduce and potentially replace animal testing for developing monoclonal antibody therapies and other medications. AI-based computational models are expected to play a larger role ...

And currently, before they can test a new therapy in humans, they must show proof that it worked in a lab and often that it works in animals.For decades, animals have been a key to biomedical ...