For decades, computer programs designed to predict whether a drug is safe have relied on one main idea: a drug's chemical shape determines how it behaves in the body. These "shape-based" models have ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A low-fat vegan diet lowers the energy density of the foods people eat by roughly 30%, allowing them to eat satisfying amounts of food while taking in fewer calories and losing ...
Not long ago, the auto industry competed on incremental improvements—slightly better mileage, marginally improved safety, incremental design tweaks. Then Tesla arrived and changed the rules. It didn’t ...
Millions of animals are used every year to test chemicals for regulatory requirements, including chemicals that have already been shown to be safe. Thankfully, the company Insilica is leading the way ...
Maintaining a healthy weight is one of the most effective ways to reduce your risk of chronic disease, including many types of cancer. Not only are those who maintain a healthy weight less likely to ...
If steak were medicine, America would be one of the healthiest nations on Earth. Instead, we are among the sickest. This contradiction sits at the center of today’s escalating debate over meat. In a ...
Haze recently obscured the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument as smoke from more than a hundred Canadian wildfires triggered a Code Purple air quality alert—“unhealthy for everyone”—across the ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six months after the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans were released, a new Physicians Committee/Morning Consult poll finds that while most U.S. adults are aware of the ...
Since 2017, Elon Musk’s company Neuralink has subjected animals—including monkeys, pigs, rats, and sheep—to invasive, often deadly brain experiments. Through 2020, the company paid $1.4 million to the ...
Share food, connect, and be inspired by your community this summer. Potluck Palooza is a summer celebration of plant-based potlucks hosted by Building Healthy Communities groups throughout June and ...
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Dr. Shenghong Wang is a regulatory testing specialist at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, where he advances the adoption of human-relevant, nonanimal approaches for chemical safety ...