Scientists in Japan have created hybrid plant-animal cells, essentially making animal cells that can gain energy from sunlight like plants. The breakthrough could have major benefits for growing ...

Researchers have created functional brain-like tissue without relying on any animal-derived materials, marking a major step toward more ethical and reproducible neurological research.

In the United Kingdom (UK), officials are planning to phase out animal testing through a new strategy that is expected to achieve the outcome faster. Under the new government roadmap unveiled by UK ...

The following text is an AI-generated, expert-checked summary of a key research study cited in a feature article from Scientific American’s May 2023 issue: Synthetic Morphology Lets Scientists Create ...

The UK science minister has proposed a new nationwide strategy to replace animal testing with alternative methods as soon as ...

Miniature lab-grown versions of organs, known as organoids, have quickly become key clinical tools — in some cases entirely replacing animal models in pre-clinical safety testing. These ...

Both scientific and policy advancements could provide desperately needed organs for transplantation. For example, there have been some promising early studies using kidneys from pigs genetically ...

Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute: For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside the brain-dead man on the gurney rolling past them.

With new technologies that allow drugs to be tested directly in human biological systems, researchers are beginning to ...