In 2005, a team of professors and researchers at the University of Virginia began a project to create a research tool that would replicate the biology of the human artery on the bench. Nicole Hastings ...

CasNx, a UF startup, is developing a CRISPR-based method to remove viruses from donor organs before transplant. The process uses a normothermic pump, likened to a "dishwasher," and a new "detergent" ...

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Emulate, Inc. today announced the company’s launch with a $12 million Series A financing to commercialize a first-in-kind, automated ‘Organs-on-Chips’ platform that ...

"Organs-on-Chips," added last May to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and winner of the 2015 Design Award from the London Design Museum, have kept their "classical" design ...

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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTG), a leading provider of life science tools for discovery and translational research, today announced the launch of the Spatial ...

To predict whether new therapeutics will be safe and effective for humans, drug developers first test them in animal- and cell-based models as well as computational tools that are designed to ...

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