New organ-on-a-chip recreates the cervix’s microbiome and immune system, revealing how bacteria shape STI infection risk.

Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” ...

Scientists grow headless organ systems from monkey cells to replace animal testing and potentially create replacement organs without consciousness.

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For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure had already been charted. Yet recent research suggests that even in the ...

Over one billion people worldwide are over 60, and the population is projected to more than double by 2050. But as more ...

Absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) are four main processes that demonstrate how a drug behaves after being administered. Therefore, ADME is key in defining a compound’s ...

Surgical instruments and supplies lie on a table during a kidney transplant surgery in 2016 at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. (Molly Riley/AP) I concur with the March 28 ...