What is an Organ-on-a-Chip? An organ-on-a-chip is a microfluidic device that simulates the key functions and physiological responses of a specific human organ or organ system on a miniaturized scale.

This article was originally republished from The Conversation. Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of dollars and can take over a decade. These high monetary and time investments are both ...

Overcoming acquired treatment resistance is one of the major challenges in the fight against cancer. While combination therapies hold promise, their toxicity to healthy tissue remains a major hurdle.

A frequently reported fact in the drug discovery and development industry is that approximately 90 % of drug candidates reaching clinical trials fail, with even higher amounts discarded before ...

NIBIB-funded engineers at the University of Buffalo have fine-tuned the use of stereolithography for 3D printing of organ models that contain live cells. The new technique is capable of printing the ...