National Centre for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs)

A study has found that much higher doses of antibiotics are needed to eliminate a bacterial infection of the airways when other microbes are present...

A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has developed an artificial mouse embryo-like structure capable of forming the three major axes of...

The past few years has seen an explosion in the number of studies using organoids – so-called ‘mini organs’. While they can help scientists understand...

Scientists have created mini biological models of human primary liver cancers, known as organoids, in the lab for the first time. In a paper published...

A new model of fatal brain diseases is being developed in the fruit fly by a team led by Dr Raymond Bujdoso at the University of Cambridge, and could...

Cambridge research that has for the first time successfully grown “mini-livers” from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK’s international prize for...