The EPA scraps plan that would have had it ban mammal testing in favor of computer models

The Environmental Protection Agency has scrapped a plan to phase out mammal testing for studying chemical toxicity, Science reports. In 2019, the regulatory agency vowed to completely phase out animal testing for toxicology studies by 2035 in favor of non-animal "test subjects" programmed into computer models. The call to challenge the status quo was controversial from the start -- it not only was going to impact thousands of studies and experiments, but many scientists argued that computer mode...