Animal models are established, important tools for preclinical safety and efficacy testing. Companies are advancing more “humanized” models to better reflect human responses, while at the same time ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

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 ...

Medical researchers have used animals, particularly mice, to mimic disease and study biological phenomena. The origin of mice as a standard model system for scientific research can extend back to the ...

Inflammatory cells (red and green) flood into part of the brain where neurons are affected by misfolded tau protein (orange). This model in rhesus macaque monkeys shows similarities to development of ...