The development and eventual approval of modern drugs is hugely reliant on animal models and human clinical trials, but for some time now scientists have been working on an alternative and more ...
March 8 (UPI) --The human body operates on multiple "clocks" that, based on lifestyle and genetic factors, influence the biological age of its organ systems, a study published Tuesday by Cell Reports ...
Scientists say they’ve discovered a new organ — possibly the human body’s largest — and it was hiding in plain sight, according to a new study. The so-called interstitium is an interconnected system ...
For generations, medical students were taught that the map of the human body was essentially complete. Yet cancer imaging has ...
Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have created the world's most sophisticated lab model of the human body, developing a full system of miniaturized organs known as ...
One day, pharmaceutical companies might not have to test new drugs on animals or even humans. Instead, drugs could be tested with organ-on-a-chip technologies. These are not silicon chips that ...