Animal models have long shaped how biomedical research is conducted. They have influenced how diseases are studied, how ...

LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...

Animal models are established, important tools for preclinical safety and efficacy testing. Companies are advancing more “humanized” models to better reflect human responses, while at the same time ...

A specialized model used by researchers is becoming a valuable tool for studying human brain development, diseases and potential treatments, according to a team of scientists at Rutgers University-New ...

Every year, more than 100 million animals are used globally in biomedical research, yet over 90% of drugs that appear effective in animal trials fail during human clinical testing. 1 This staggering ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...

In a large-animal model study, researchers have found that heart attack recovery is aided by injection of heart muscle cell spheroids derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells, or hiPSCs, that ...

Genetically-humanized FcRn mice provide translational pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) data for antibody-based therapeutics. The image illustrates a therapeutic antibody (blue) adhering ...

Alfa Cytology provides leukemia cell line models, animal models, and preclinical drug development services to support leukemia preclinical research.