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, ...

Due to advancements in genetic engineering, small animal models are continuing to change in response to market needs. Model developers strive to better reflect the role of this important asset in both ...

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 ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

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 ...