Advancing Science Without Harming Animals
NAVS is dedicated to ending harmful, flawed and costly animal experiments through the advancement of smarter, human-relevant research and the promotion of animal-friendly changes to laws and policies.
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The fact of the matter is, most drugs that show promise in animal models are not effective in people. Continue reading
Non-animal brain models recently made headlines at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, which was held in San Diego earlier this month. Continue reading
169
Current number of sponsors of the Humane Cosmetics Act in the U.S. House of Representatives
16
Number of states (plus Washington DC)
with laws or policies allowing students to opt out of classroom dissection exercises
767,622
Number of Animal Welfare Act-covered animals used in research, testing and teaching in the United States in 2015, according to APHIS