Why We Should Test Heart Drugs On a ‘Virtual Human’ Instead of Animals Thousands of animals are used for heart drug tests each year—but research shows that computer-simulated trials are more ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Parallel Bio, a biotech company pioneering human-first drug discovery, today announced it has raised $21 million Series A funding, led by AIX Ventures. The ...

Miniature models of human organs may provide a more accurate predictor of drug efficacy than animal testing.

The new Malaria-on-a-Chip model offers a promising approach to drug discovery using human-based models and paves the way for new drug development in collaboration with MMV.

A groundbreaking 3D, three-layer nanomatrix vascular sheet that possesses multiple features of atherosclerosis has been applied for developing a high-throughput functional assay of drug candidates ...

The passage of the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 in 2022 has provided additional impetus to develop new approach methods for predicting the effects of drug candidates in humans from models such as ...

A failure to accurately predict the human efficacy and safety of new agents from early-stage research is thought to underlie the attrition of many drug development projects.

Media contact: Jeff Hansen Ho-Wook Jun, Ph.D., Photography: Steve Wood A groundbreaking 3D, three-layer nanomatrix vascular sheet that possesses multiple features of atherosclerosis has been applied ...

Last year, Congress passed a law allowing drug makers to collect safety and efficacy data using high-tech new tools, including bioengineered organs, organs on chips and computer models, instead of ...

Once thought improbable, in vitro human models are demonstrating technological prowess in a growing range of applications.

Liver toxicity is a big problem in the drug, food, and consumer products industries, especially because results in animal models fail to predict how chemicals will affect humans. A new Liver-Chip ...

Despite swimming in different worlds, fish and humans are biologically much closer than one might think. Capitalizing on this ...