WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services issued the following press release:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a new wave of agency-wide actions to accelerate the shift toward human-based research methods and reduce unnecessary animal testing, advancing a coordinated effort to modernize how the federal government conducts, funds, and evaluates biomedical research.
Since Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. took office, HHS agencies have launched more than 20 initiatives to expand the use of technologies including human organoids, tissue models, artificial intelligence, and computational modeling while reducing reliance on animal models."We are moving HHS toward a new era of bi...