'Headless' human bodies could replace lab animals for scientific testing: 'A great source of organs'

Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” ...
Business Wire

Stemina’s Human Stem Cell-Based Test Demonstrates Potential to Predict Which Drugs and Chemicals Cause Birth Defects

-- EPA’s ToxCast ™ evaluation of the developmental toxicity risk of 1,065 compounds using Stemina’s devTOX quickPredict test (devTOXqP) published in Toxicological Sciences -- devTOXqP is the only ...

$25 Million Project Seeks to Coordinate Data Produced by Human-Based Testing Methods

A research team at NYU Langone Health and Sage Bionetworks has been awarded a $25 million grant to establish the data hub and coordinating center for the National Institutes of Health's ...
News Medical

Human cell-based methods could better identify asthma-causing chemicals, research suggests

Chemicals that could potentially cause asthma through an immune reaction could be better identified with human cell- and computer-based test methods, according to a new research paper co-authored by ...

Magnetic fields guide lab-grown blood vessels into precise patterns for drug testing

Animal studies often fail to predict human tissue responses to new drugs or newly developed therapies. Besides generating ...
The Scientist

FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing. Will That Work?

In April of this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new roadmap that aims to replace animal testing in the development of new drugs with more human-relevant methods. The goal is ...
BioPharma Dive

With FDA go ahead, a China biotech notches a first in cell therapy testing

The trial clearance for Shanghai-based Unixell is another step forward for the rapidly advancing Chinese biotech ecosystem, ...

US FDA pushes for new methods to replace animal testing in early drug studies

March 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued a draft guidance to help companies reduce ...
HealioOpinion

Editorial: Why the FDA’s move away from animal testing is scientifically necessary

The FDA’s recent announcement to reduce, and in some cases replace, animal testing for monoclonal antibodies and other ...