The future of drug development might be animal-free — or, at least, involve far fewer animals than is currently the norm. Last June, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) set out proposals for the ...

One of the keys to any engine development program, from Winston Cup to the Saturday- night racer, is the ability to effectively evaluate changes to the engine. The goal of any engine development ...

WESTPAK says its new vacuum decay CCIT service provides non-destructive, deterministic leak detection for pharmaceutical and ...

In a converging policy shift on both sides of the Atlantic, European regulators this week published a roadmap toward fully replacing animal testing for chemical safety assessments ...

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Although it is sometimes thought that quality assurance (QA) and software testing are the same, they are, in fact, different concepts. They differ in their objectives, features and methods. Testers ...

UL Solutions, a global company for applied safety science, has announced enhancements to the testing methods for battery energy storage systems (BESS). The new testing methods will address industry ...

Although several countries—and even some U.S. states—are beginning to create laws that ban or limit the practice of animal testing for cosmetics, the sad reality is that some companies continue to ...

Learn when static methods can’t be unit tested and how to use wrapper classes and the Moq and xUnit frameworks to unit test them when they can When building or working in .NET applications you might ...

A material’s hardness relates to its mechanical resistance when subjected to mechanical indentation by another harder body. Diamond is considered the hardest natural material and is typically used for ...

Fig. 1. Standard method used for displaying fatigue test results. 1a (right) shows standard fatigue testing terminology, and 1b. (left) depicts an S-N diagram. Photo Credit: Dan Adams Fatigue testing ...