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FDA Eliminates Animal Testing: Impact on Biotechs

The Premier Consulting Blog

On April 10, 2025, the US FDA announced that it has a long-term plan to eliminate conventional animal testing in drug development, starting with monoclonal antibodies (mAbs).[ 2] An overview of the 3Rs The FDA and other global regulatory health authorities have long embraced the 3Rs of animal research (replace, reduce, and refine).

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Rapid delivery of toxicological material

Drug Target Review

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. References: 1 Wadman M.

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Analysis Chemical Thank You EU court upholds ban on chlorpyrifos-methyl, setting regulatory precedent in the process

Agency IQ

In particular, they discussed the potential for genotoxicity, or the potential to damage human DNA, and developmental neurotoxicity, or the negative effect on the developing human nervous system. It also found this approach beneficial because it reduces the need for animal testing.

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A therapy candidate for fatal prion diseases turns off disease-causing gene

Broad Institute

Unlike gene editing, this “epigenetic” editing does not modify the underlying DNA sequence, but it should switch the gene off permanently, which means that this could be a one-time treatment. Like Cas9, ZFPs can serve as guide proteins to direct the tool to a target site in DNA.

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The FDA Modernization Act 2.0: The End of IND-Enabling Toxicology Studies?

The Premier Consulting Blog

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. In this blog post, we examine several alternative approaches to animal testing and how the FDA handles the application of these methods in specific scenarios.

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Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents

Codon

It may seem that if researchers are sufficiently concerned about the welfare of lab animals, the best thing to do would be to stop using animals altogether. However, a multitude of factors—from institutional inertia to a global animal-testing industry worth billions of dollars —make this outcome unlikely.

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How Lume Whole Body Deodorant Was Inspired by a Genetic Disease

PLOS: DNA Science

.” But, tellingly, “Neither the law nor FDA regulations require specific tests to demonstrate the safety of individual products or ingredients.” The post How Lume Whole Body Deodorant Was Inspired by a Genetic Disease appeared first on DNA Science. An objective assessment of odor would be nice.

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