The UCLA advance opens the door to growing other vascularized organ models, including intestines and colons, providing ...

In a recent study, Associate Professor Makoto Ikeya (Department of Clinical Application) and his team of researchers ...

Organ-on-a-chip systems offer a more accurate, ethical, and scalable alternative to animal testing in drug discovery and ...

Traditional and new laboratory tools along with advances in AI are outlining a new paradigm in human disease modeling.

The adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement marks a pivotal moment in global health governance,1 particularly through the inclusion of the One Health approach. This holistic approach, integrating human ...

Frederick R. Appelbaum, MD, recognized for advancing marrow transplantation, talks about the impact of canine research on ...

They now are studying the VMA21 mutation in a mammalian model, the mouse, to further push research toward a possible clinical treatment. “We have established the first preclinical animal model of XMEA, ...

The lack of animal models that mimic human disease impedes the study of many pathologies that still lack treatment beyond symptom relief. This is what has happened so far with PURA syndrome, a rare ...

Animal models remain central to understanding the complexity of biology and disease Transparent zebra fish in a laboratory tank at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

Animal models are often flawed and offer incomplete representations of human disease. Yet we have long relied on their data to establish the risk/benefit for experimental drugs. Despite a decades ...

Organoids, miniaturized, stem cell-derived versions of human organs, are revolutionizing biomedical research by offering human-specific models for disease study and drug testing. While they have ...

H105A peptide eye drops promote photoreceptor survival in murine and human models of retinal degeneration. Communications Medicine, 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s43856-025-00789-8 ...