This Simple Blood Test Could Outperform “Bad Cholesterol” in Preventing Heart Disease

ApoB testing outperforms traditional cholesterol measures in preventing heart attacks and strokes while remaining ...

Simple and Cheap Blood Test Could Detect Cancer and Other Diseases Before Symptoms Appear

MethylScan is a low-cost blood test that detects cancers and organ diseases by analyzing DNA methylation, improving early diagnosis, and identifying disease origin.
RAPS

EMA proposes new method to reduce animal drug testing

Following the trend of other regulators, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is taking steps to reduce the need for animal testing. The agency has issued a draft qualification opinion for a new ...
CNN

The push to end animal testing is gaining steam, but technology can’t fill the gap yet

A social media post from the US Food and Drug Administration this week shows a big-eyed macaque staring out from behind bars. “Some drugs use 144 monkeys on average for preclinical testing,” the post ...
Reuters

US FDA pushes for new methods to replace animal testing in early drug studies

March 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued a draft guidance to help companies reduce animal studies of experimental drugs and adopt newer methods, such as computer ...
Healio

FDA efforts to reduce animal testing signal shift toward AI, organ-on-chip study methods

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA announced plans in 2025 to reduce animal testing requirements in biomedical research. New approach ...
Morningstar

Pace(R) Launches New Testing Method for Ultrashort-Chain PFAS

MINNEAPOLIS, MN / ACCESS Newswire / March 12, 2026 / Pace® Analytical Services, the preferred provider of regulatory testing and analytical laboratory services, and a Division of Pace®, a Science and ...
News Tribune

New soil testing method at MU offers faster results at half the cost

Last year, more than 24,000 farmers and gardeners requested soil sample testing through MU Extension. This year, the Soil and Plant Testing Laboratory in Mumford Hall is making it simpler and cheaper ...
KOMU

MU Extension cuts soil testing cost by more than half

COLUMBIA — The price of soil sample testing at the University of Missouri Extension Soil and Plant Testing Laboratory is being reduced by half as the lab adopts a new soil testing method. Under the ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Until new methods are fully validated, we still must consider animal testing

To the editor: While only a small percentage of ALS cases are associated with the SOD1 gene mutation, the SOD1 mouse model actively contributed to the development of two key FDA-approved ALS drugs, ...
MIT Technology Review

The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin “shortly”

In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers. When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging ...
VentureBeat

New ‘Test-Time Training’ method lets AI keep learning without exploding inference costs

A new study from researchers at Stanford University and Nvidia proposes a way for AI models to keep learning after deployment — without increasing inference costs. For enterprise agents that have to ...