In a major transfer, the U.S. Nationwide Institutes for Well being mentioned it could scale back its reliance on animals in federally funded analysis and as a substitute prioritize funding in human-based alternate options, the second time this month {that a} key authorities company has taken such a step.
To realize its aim, the NIH plans to determine a brand new workplace for overseeing revolutionary analysis and coordinating agency-wide efforts to “develop, validate and scale” using “non-animal approaches” to biomedical analysis. The brand new workplace can even broaden funding and coaching with an eye fixed towards assessing appropriate analysis strategies and make them extra accessible to researchers.
“For many years, our biomedical analysis system has relied closely on animal fashions. With this initiative, NIH is ushering in a brand new period of innovation,” Director Jay Bhattacharya mentioned in a assertion.
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