The way we test new medicines in the U.S. is about to change.The FDA is officially moving away from animal testing and ...

While some animals like mammals have a limited ability to regenerate lost tissues, planarians can be cut roughly in half and ...

Animal testing requirements for monoclonal antibodies and other medications will be “reduced, refined or potentially replaced ...

such as artificial organs and skin, by allowing light exposure to generate oxygen and energy for cell growth. The idea of animal cells adopting photosynthetic abilities may sound like science ...

The last sighting of the glass octopus was in 2021, and scientists still don't know much about this highly elusive species.

Andrei Georgescu of Vivodyne discusses key advantages of its humanized drug testing platform and the impact of the FDA’s ...

Until now scientists conducted most biomedical research through animal ... on organs and to replicate diseases like asthma. The next frontier: custom chips that imitate a person’s unique biology ...

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, thus reducing the chances of rejection. One common edit, for instance, ...

Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development.

Various other animal and plant species have also evolved their own ... Despite such advances in understanding the biology of symbiotic organs, much about the intricacies of host-symbiont communication ...