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, ...

Researchers recently developed a bone marrow model to study how the body generates cells. Interestingly, this model is the first of its kind to be developed entirely from human cells. Not only can ...

For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has discussed moving away from in vivo models in preclinical research. Now, it’s more than a conversation. The FDA’s roadmap for reducing animal testing, ...

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 ...

Creating physiologically relevant conditions for cells that replicate in vivo environments can improve experimental results, ...