There’s one area of surprising agreement in the often adversarial relationship between conservatives and the scientific community: the need to phase out animal testing in biomedical research. The new ...

NASA’s AVATAR experiment uses organ chip models from astronauts to study bone marrow and immune response in microgravity and ...

Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests ...

SpaceX, the Hawthorne, Calif.-based aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, successfully launched a Dragon spacecraft on a cargo mission to deliver supplies and biotech experiments to the ...

Linda Griffith, bioengineer and director of MIT's Center for Gynepathology Research, is working to grow human tissue on bits of plastic to better understand and treat systemic gynecological diseases, ...

Creating a drug that might help treat or cure a health condition in humans is a long, complex process. After developing a ...

A project from TU Wien (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) has demonstrated how laser patterning can be used to create microvascular channels within microfluidic chips. The breakthrough, ...

A research team led by scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital has developed a novel technology platform that enables the continuous and automated monitoring of so-called "organs-on-chips" -- ...

New organ-on-a-chip platform allows the testing of cancer vaccine efficacy in aging populations, which may help guide the development of next-generation immunotherapies designed to meet the needs of ...

Organoids are three-dimensional structures derived from human cells, developed to reproduce the functional, structural, and biological complexity of various human organs in vitro. Although they are ...

There’s one area of surprising agreement in the often adversarial relationship between conservatives and the scientific community: the need to phase out animal testing in biomedical research. The new ...