Innate biases of newborn animals inspire adaptive decision-making model

Precocial animals, the ones that move autonomously within hours after hatching or birth, have many biases they are born with ...
STAT

There is no replacement (yet) for animal models in medical research

LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...
GEN

Three Ways CRISPR Is Making Animal Research Models More Predictive

CRISPR-Cas9 technology is used to knock out or modify DNA in research mice to study disease phenotypes and develop new treatments. CRISPR mice and rats are offered by Charles River, which uses genetic ...
BioTechniques

In vitro versus in vivo: advanced models to replace animals

In this whitepaper, Sartorius discusses the need to replace animal testing with advanced in vitro human cell models for pharmaceutical, chemical, and cosmetic development as, with only 5-10% of ...