Nature, Published online: 25 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00623-8

New methods such as mini 3D ‘organoids’ are slowly phasing out animal testing in some areas of research. Plus, how to spot a fraudulent paper and the surprising science of squeaky sneakers.


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    5 days ago

    I will NEVER understand why companies who invested so heavily in animal-testing ( cosmetics, etc ) didn’t simply hire some people with aweful chemical-sensitivities, do some tests to weed-out the psychosomatic-sensitivity people, leaving only objective-testers, & then use them, instead of labs-full-of-suffering-animals.

    Allergies & chemical-sensitivities are instruments of identifying problem-ingredients!

    & humans can say “there’s something wrong with this mixture, and it’s similar to what’s wrong with that one, that we did last thursday” or something like that, right?

    It was obvious last-century, it would have saved millions for the industries using those labs, & would have got results quicker.


    ( I’m NOT talking about testing treatments on animal-models for specific medical-conditions, obviously, but “animal testing” includes both domains, not just 1 of them, so the point stands )

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