Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” grown from human cells. R3 Bio, a billionaire-backed biotech startup, is ...

A research team has discovered an enhanced CRISPR gene-editing system that could enable targeted delivery inside the human ...

Over one billion people worldwide are over 60, and the population is projected to more than double by 2050. But as more people live into their 60s, 70s, and 80s, health care systems across the globe ...

Mankind may one day satisfy its organ donation and medical research needs with the use of lab-grown headless human bodies, if one group of scientists get their way. Researchers at R3 Bio are ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Aging, a team of researchers used a large dataset consisting of participants of European ancestry from the United Kingdom (U.K.) Biobank to explore ...

Many aspects of our world, from the body mass of creatures in the animal kingdom to the population of cities across the globe, follow an intriguing mathematical pattern. Known as Zipf's law, the rule ...

New organ-on-a-chip recreates the cervix’s microbiome and immune system, revealing how bacteria shape STI infection risk.

Absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) are four main processes that demonstrate how a drug behaves after being administered. Therefore, ADME is key in defining a compound’s ...

Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Hesperos, Inc., Founding Director of the NanoScience Technology Center, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Central ...