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NewsNew NIH-funded center could soon reduce the need for pharmaceutical trials on animals
The University of Rochester will house a new national center focused on using tissue-on-chip technology to develop drugs more rapidly and reduce the need for animal trials.
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NewsOrgan agar offers big benefits for the study of bacteria
Animal models are a necessary research tool for understanding how diseases develop and how therapies work in biological systems and can be credited for breakthroughs ranging from effective antibiotics to the COVID vaccines. Source: CDC Clonies of Gram-negative Proteus mirabilis bacteria, grown on a xylose-lysine-deoxycholate (XLD) agar plate. ...
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NewsScientists build human lungs in dish to test drugs
Scientists have developed a step-by-step blueprint to create advanced human lung models in the lab, which they say will accelerate the discovery and development of new drugs and reduce reliance on animal testing.
