A biotech startup seeks to end animal testing with the creation of headless human bodyoids. Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FDA Commissioner Martin Makary on Thursday announced a move away from animal-based drug testing in favor of human-based methods ...

The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...

Feinberg Professor emerita Eva Redei’s research had two key components: vats of water and “depressed” rats. Redei found that the rodents, genetically engineered in a Kyoto lab to exhibit depressive ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA & PHILADELPHIA, PA — Vivodyne has raised $40 million in Series A funding to expand its cutting-edge robotics and AI platform, which uses lab-grown human tissues to transform ...

The FDA is moving away from requiring animal models for investigational new drug (IND) applications for new monoclonal antibodies and some other drug candidates. Animal testing will be "reduced, ...

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Spinal cord injuries cause permanent paralysis in part because inflammation, cell death, and glial scarring block nerve regeneration, and there has been no reliable human tissue model to test ...