Media contact: Jeff Hansen Ho-Wook Jun, Ph.D., Photography: Steve Wood A groundbreaking 3D, three-layer nanomatrix vascular sheet that possesses multiple features of atherosclerosis has been applied ...

Despite swimming in different worlds, fish and humans are biologically much closer than one might think. Capitalizing on this ...

With support from EDB and A*Star, Japanese biopharma leader Chugai is using its research base in Singapore to create new therapies for global markets Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

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.

Liver toxicity is a big problem in the drug, food, and consumer products industries, especially because results in animal models fail to predict how chemicals will affect humans. A new Liver-Chip ...

With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have designed novel antibiotics that can combat two hard-to-treat infections: drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant ...

The authors believe their results reveal that human computer simulation drug trials are a powerful tool for predicting arrhythmia. They anticipate that the methodology could be integrated into current ...

Once thought improbable, in vitro human models are demonstrating technological prowess in a growing range of applications.

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have genetically engineered a new laboratory model that enables accurate testing of anti-cancer drugs by mimicking the complexity of human cancers.

Computational models representing human heart cells show higher accuracy than animal models in predicting an adverse drug effect, such as dangerous arrhythmias ...