Immense promise or ethical minefield?: Trump looks to lab-grown 'organoids', AI as alternatives to animal testing

Immense promise or ethical minefield?: Trump looks to lab-grown 'organoids', AI as alternatives to animal testing

Animal welfare and animal rights groups are praising the Trump administration’s moves away from animal testing for the development of pharmaceuticals as well as for medical and other research.

An animal rights protest is being held on April 26 against the expansion of the Rousset primatology station. Led by the CNRS, this project aims to create a macaque breeding facility for French biomedical research. To develop a breeding facility capable of supplying monkeys to French laboratories, the CNRS wants to triple the capacity of the Rousset primatology station in Bouches-du-Rhône. According to this project, it would become the national c…

Locked-in monkeys, abused rats - animal experiments have a very bad reputation. Animal protectors denounce them time and again. Scientists are working on alternatives.