In a landmark decision poised to revolutionize drug development, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new initiative to significantly reduce, refine, and replace animal testing ...

Researchers have built a realistic human mini spinal cord in the lab and used it to simulate traumatic injury. The model reproduced key damage seen in real spinal cord injuries, including inflammation ...

A research lab at the University of Caen Normandy (France) has succeeded in making cartilage using decellularized apples.

Northwestern University scientists have developed the most advanced organoid model for human spinal cord injury to date. In a ...

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 ...

I am living with ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often called Lou Gehrig’s disease. The average survival time after diagnosis is two to five years. I’m in year two. When you have a disease ...