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 tremendous costs for clinical studies, it also raises significant ethical ...

Can ‘mini brains’ replace lab animals? Organoids are changing how scientists study disease

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.
The Hill

Cutting animal testing will jeopardize human health

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 ...
Business Wire

In the Age of Automation, Human Collaboration Still Counts: Survey Highlights Critical Role of Medical Lab Staff, Influences on Doctors' Orders

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A survey of 408 U.S. physicians, conducted by YouGov analysis institute and commissioned by Siemens Healthineers, reveals how significant laboratory testing is to doctors’ ...

To study microplastics, Cassandra Rauert first had to build a plastic-free lab. It wasn't easy.

The thought cameto Cassandra Rauert while she was new on the job as an analytical chemist studying microplastics in human tissues: Maybe I should test my own blood? This was six y ...