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 ...

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it is expanding its list of approved alternatives to animal ...

FIRST ON FOX — The Food and Drug Administration is phasing out an animal testing requirement for antibody therapies and other drugs in favor of testing on materials that mimic human organs, the FDA ...

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 ...

Dr. Neeraj Dhar and his VIDO team are developing ‘organoids’ — donor tissue engineered in a lab to mimic various organs — for ...

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Northwestern University scientists have developed the most advanced organoid model for human spinal cord injury to date. In a new study, the research team used lab-grown human spinal cord ...

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 ...