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A Future Beyond Animal Testing: Why ORIVA Matters and How Computational Models Bridge the Gap

Animal testing is costly, slow, and poorly predictive. ORIVA offers a human-relevant alternative with the potential to change that.
The New York Times

Scientists Debut Lab Models of Human Embryos

Four teams have coaxed human stem cells to organize themselves into embryo-like forms. The advance could shed light on fertility. By Carl Zimmer In its first week, a fertilized human egg develops into ...
New Atlas

Human embryo models could unlock the “black box” of early development

Researchers have used naïve pluripotent stem cells to create an embryo model that looks and acts like a natural human embryo. They say it’s an ethical way of gaining a better understanding of ...
CNN

Breakthroughs in race to create lab models of human embryos raise hopes and concerns

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The Tartan

Of Mice and Men(struation): researchers engineer mice for women’s health study

Harvard researchers have engineered mice that can menstruate — a key step in better under standing menstrual biology. Octavia Liku/ Staffwriter At last, the women of Donner House can begin to ...
GEN

In Vitro Human Models Grow Up

For decades, animal models have been the gold standard for preclinical testing of potential drugs. Yet, even the best animal models are not perfect. For example, small rodent species with engrafted ...