UCLA researchers have created miniature stem cell-based organoid models of human lungs, hearts and brains to study how hantaviruses—rare but often deadly viruses spread by rodents—infect the body.

Organs-on-chips (OoCs) represent a revolutionary advancement in the study of human physiology and disease, offering an in vitro microphysiological environment that mimics the functions of human organs ...

Traditional animal models and simplified cell cultures often fail to capture human biology, limiting progress in biomedical research and drug development. Emerging microfluidic "Organ-on-Chip" ...

Draper recently received an up to $26.7 million other transaction award (OTA) from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). The award supports the agency's Computational ADME-Tox and ...

Organ-on-chip devices are small, transparent microfluidic platforms, typically the size of a microscope slide, etched with tiny channels through which fluids circulate ...

Researchers created lab-grown human spinal cord organoids to model different types of spinal cord injuries and test a ...

More than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a new heart, kidney or some other organ. Many will die waiting. Some scientists see new hope for these people in organs from pigs that ...