In an astounding bioengineering feat, researchers produced a fully functioning 3D model of the female reproductive system. The device is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand and uses human and ...

Animal testing isn’t just ethically questionable—it’s actually not that effective. Several biotech firms are developing technology that could change that. When 4,000 beagles destined for animal ...

Eye research charity, Fight for Sight, is funding the development of an ‘organ-on-chip’ that for the first time will be used to help investigate glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness. Dr Darryl ...

The future of life-saving treatments may be just a chip off the ‘ole blood sample. Scientists at Columbia University have created a set of real — and really tiny — human organs that interact on a chip ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Emulate, Inc., the leading provider of next-generation in vitro models, today announced the launch of the Emulate Chip-A1™ Accessible Chip through an early access program.

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Before, it was inconceivable: risk-free biomedical testing on living human organs. But new “organs-on-chips” technology ...

One day, pharmaceutical companies might not have to test new drugs on animals or even humans. Instead, drugs could be tested with organ-on-a-chip technologies. These are not silicon chips that ...

The synovium is a membrane-like structure that lines the knee joint and helps to keep the joint happy and healthy, mainly by producing and maintaining synovial fluid. Inflammation of this tissue is ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have begun testing drugs using a microchip lined with living cells that replicates many of the features of a human lung, a technology that may one day help improve ...