Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

Researchers have developed a vascularized organoid model of hormone secreting cells in the pancreas. The advance promises to improve diabetes research and cell-based therapies. Researchers led by ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types. Now, researchers have succeeded for the first time in recreating this ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has discussed moving away from in vivo models in preclinical research. Now, it’s more than a conversation. The FDA’s roadmap for reducing animal testing, ...

Every year, more than 100 million animals are used globally in biomedical research, yet over 90% of drugs that appear effective in animal trials fail during human clinical testing. 1 This staggering ...

Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo developed adult human kidney tubuloids that model chronic kidney disease ...