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FDA Announces Groundbreaking Shift: Replacing Animal Testing With Advanced Human-Relevant Methods For Drug Development

In a landmark decision poised to revolutionize drug development, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new initiative to significantly reduce, refine, and replace animal testing ...
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Vivodyne to Replace Animal Testing With $40 Million Funding to Reverse 95% Clinical Trial Failure Rate

95% of clinical trials fail because animal testing is no substitute for human biology - Vivodyne’s robotics platform grows thousands of human tissues daily, directly tackling the biological gap behind ...
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DOT to remove oral drug testing requirement as 'factual impossibility'

The Department of Transportation is revising a requirement that it calls an “inadvertent factual impossibility” from its drug testing procedures. A provision from DOT’s 2023 oral fluid drug testing ...
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Vivodyne Announces $38 Million Seed Financing Led by Khosla Ventures to Develop Lab-Grown Human Organs

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vivodyne, a biotech that discovers and develops more effective drugs by testing them on lab-grown human organs, today announced the close of $38 million in total seed ...
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Feds push animal testing alternatives; Wisconsin laboratory leads the way

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 ...