Animal testing has, to date, been the most accurate and reliable strategy for checking new drugs, but it is expensive, time consuming and—for some ... human computer models are now available ...

When little to no experimental data is available about a chemical, researchers often rely on computer models ... regulations to assess alternatives to animal testing for chemical toxicity.

The Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to phase out animal use in preclinical testing ... that can feed into models, and they don’t even need to be clean: Computer science is ...

His lab uses mice for some protocols ... with a 0% success rate for animal testing. It was the first time organs on chips had been directly pitted against animal models, and the results got ...

The agency might even fast-track reviews of studies that use alternatives to animals ... to move into human testing. Artificial intelligence and in silico models—computer simulations that ...

The FDA intends to replace animal testing with alternative methods, a term the agency uses for newer drug testing approaches like organs-on-chips and advanced computer models that can simulate ...

Research groups developing alternatives to animal testing ... these models constructed from cells are those built using computers. For instance, scientists have built computer models to assess ...

According to Paul Locke, an environmental-health scientist and lawyer at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who specializes in alternatives to animal testing, the FDA is taking a ...

They also agree that it's wrong to use animals if alternative testing methods would produce ... Animal experiments eliminate some potential drugs as either ineffective or too dangerous to use ...