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

R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term ...

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

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

Mankind may one day satisfy its organ donation and medical research needs with the use of lab-grown headless human bodies, if one group of scientists get their way. Researchers at R3 Bio are ...

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 ...

Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Hesperos, Inc., Founding Director of the NanoScience Technology Center, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Central ...

Engineers at the billionaire-backed startup, R3 Bio, have come up with a way to grow whole biological systems that don’t have ...

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 ...