Agency IQ

OCTOBER 12, 2023

BY RAYAN BHARGAVA, MSC | OCT 6, 2023 4:30 PM CDT Regulatory background Chlorpyrifos-methyl (CHP-methyl) is an insecticide with applications for a variety of crops. It also found this approach beneficial because it reduces the need for animal testing.

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

To achieve an aggressive timeline from DNA to investigational new drug (IND) application, drug developers have strengthened collaborations with contract development & manufacturing organisations (CDMOs) to expedite drug development. FDA no longer has to require animal testing for new drugs. 2023 Jan-Dec;15(1):2220150.

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Codon

JULY 21, 2024

There is an enormously high bar for morally permissible human subjects research , but when it comes to animals, the bar is much lower. 2 This is understandable given how much we value human life, but solutions to this disparity are not zero-sum: we can also do better for animals. In fact, the science of animal welfare is exploding.

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The Premier Consulting Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

President Biden of the United States (US) has recently signed into law the Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill, which included the FDA Modernization Act 2.0. As a result, the FDA is now required to consider alternatives to animal testing, such as in vitro , in silico , and in chemico tests and models.

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PLOS: DNA Science

APRIL 4, 2024

A highly-tauted quality of Lume is that the effect lasts 72 hours, although a class action lawsuit filed May 2023 challenges that claim, key to the advertising. ” But, tellingly, “Neither the law nor FDA regulations require specific tests to demonstrate the safety of individual products or ingredients.”

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Codon

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Though my focus in this essay is narrow — I don’t discuss bottlenecks in clinical trials, human disease, or animal testing — I hope others will take on these challenges in similar essays. Perhaps you’ve seen this chart before, which shows the falling costs of DNA sequencing over the last two decades.

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