To help teams fully realize these benefits, the following at-a-glance reference reinforces the core ASTM packaging standards and clarifies how individual methods work together within a cohesive ...

Agricultural soil testing is critical to determining soil’s nutrient concentration and variability across your fields. It is ideal to test your fields’ soil at least every two to three years to inform ...

Following the trend of other regulators, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is taking steps to reduce the need for animal testing. The agency has issued a draft qualification opinion for a new ...

A social media post from the US Food and Drug Administration this week shows a big-eyed macaque staring out from behind bars. “Some drugs use 144 monkeys on average for preclinical testing,” the post ...

March 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued a draft guidance to help companies reduce animal studies of experimental drugs and adopt newer methods, such as computer ...

In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers. When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging ...

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, revived a plan created during the first Trump administration to end the testing of chemicals on mammals. By Lisa Friedman The Environmental Protection Agency will ...

MOUNT PROSPECT, Illinois — January 15, 2026 — The global shift away from PFAS is accelerating. PFAS – per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – are a large class of synthetic fluorinated chemicals ...

Researchers have discovered a new way to detect per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water. This marks an important step forward in creating testing devices that are simpler, more ...

Plastometrex, a developer of mechanical testing solutions based in Cambridge, UK, announced that its ASTM E3499-25 for Profilometry-based Indentation Plastometry (PIP) standard has been approved. The ...

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