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 ...

In late April 2025, days after U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, claims (archived) recirculated online that Thanedar had abandoned ...

Tech advances already show a future of testing in which we might not have to suffer and die while waiting for systems that don’t work.

The National Institutes of Health announced last week that it will no longer issue funding calls for grant proposals that rely solely on animal testing. Moving forward, all such calls must also ...

Ms. Blum is the author of “The Monkey Wars,” a book about ethical issues in animal research. Early in my career as a science journalist, I visited a primate research laboratory that was running an ...