NAMs News

Follow NAM Testing news, research updates, funding developments, and regulatory discussions relevant to Novel Alternative Methodologies.

Stay current with NAM testing news, research developments, and policy or regulatory updates shaping the broader New Approach Methodologies landscape. This page combines the current headline ticker with an archive-style list so readers can quickly scan the stories most relevant to their work.

Coverage includes research breakthroughs, funding announcements, translational model development, regulatory discussions, and commentary on how NAMs and animal studies are being positioned across biomedical research.

📰Current News

  • Preclinical mouse studies support groundbreaking RAS inhibitor for pancreatic cancer
  • 5 years and growing, human brain organoid
  • A call for pragmatism in human-based research using animals
  • Testing in large animal models now mandated for IITs in China after undisclosed deaths
  • US House of Representatives pass FDA Modernization Act 3.0
  • How animal models and NAMs work together
  • The 5% problem and the case for non-animal methods
  • Why animal models still matter in drug development
  • NIH launches ORIVA
  • Organ-on-a-Chip Model Connecting Diabetes with Dementia
  • UC Berkeley's New Organ-on-a-Chip for Aging

📂Previous News

  • NIH funding for NAM development
  • Phasing out animal models in research may risk patient safety
  • NIH eye-cell digital twin created
  • Projected global market for organs-on-a-chip to 2034
  • Human stem cell NAMs: Mapping autism pathways.
  • Generating lung organoids from human iPSCs
  • Can NAMs do that?
  • Animal models and NAMs drive innovation in pancreatic cancer research
  • Ending animal research now won't save lives today
  • An interview with DPCPSI Director Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer
  • NC3Rs Report on incorporating NAMs into medicines development
  • Stem cells used to treat T1D in mice
  • FDA Pushes Personalized Treatments Forward
  • Elevating Physiology to Strengthen Research Impact
  • Animal Studies Continue Driving Biomedical Insight
  • Are animal models replaceable today?
  • NIH establishes Standardized Organoid Modeling Center
  • Pancreatic ALK7 3D microfluidic vessel-on-chip
  • Pericytes repair barrier integrity in blood-brain barrier NAM
  • Human BBB-on-a-Chip Model of astrogliosis
  • Office of Research Innovation, Validation, and Application (ORIVA) launches at NIH
  • FNIH Validation & Qualification Network in design phase
  • Ending animal testing is not the answer
  • Authors urge everyone to get behind NAMs
  • Sample archived article
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