Allison DeAngelis is the East Coast biotech and venture capital reporter at STAT, reporting where scientific ideas and money meet. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud.

Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...

Every winter, Austin gets walloped by cedar fever: runny noses, scratchy throats, watering eyes, and canceled plans as mountain cedar pollen smothers the Hill Country. Now, early lab results from an ...