This workshop examined animal models of microbiome research. Invited speakers explored how to improve the depth and breadth of analysis of microbial communities using various model organisms, ...

A fundamental challenge in preclinical research is accurately predicting human responses using conventional animal models. Traditional approaches often fail to adequately model human disease, creating ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

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, ...

Medical researchers have used animals, particularly mice, to mimic disease and study biological phenomena. The origin of mice as a standard model system for scientific research can extend back to the ...

While Catharine Krebs was working in a human-genetics laboratory during her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles, there was a line that she got used to seeing at the end of papers: “These ...

AI-based approaches are increasingly capturing complex human disease biology directly, without the use of potentially confounding animal models. [ignatiev / Getty Images] The recent decision by the ...

The University at Buffalo’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Translational Pilot Studies Program annually provides seed money to investigators to assist them in developing promising ...