In Depth 26 Sep 2025 Can biotechnology reduce animal testing in medicine? Animal testing is crucial for measuring the efficacy and safety of new treatments. It is also a step that everyone would like to avoid as much as possible for economic, regulatory, and ethical reasons. But what are the alternatives, and can they really reduce the use of animals in drug development? Before drug developers let […] September 26, 2025 - 14 minutesmins - By Willow Shah-Neville Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
Sponsored by B2B - Breast2Bone 21 Feb 2023 From breast to bone: Refining metastasis drug discovery with a novel organ-on-a-chip device Understanding invasive cancer progression and metastasis formation are among the core open questions in cancer research. However, the limitations of current models lead to high failure rates in drug development. An EU-funded consortium has designed an organ-on-a-chip approach that could deliver new insights. In metastasis, circulating tumor cells spontaneously shed from the primary site to […] February 21, 2023 - 6 minutesmins - By Ute Boronowsky Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
In Depth 23 Aug 2022 Company’s 3D microchip gives mechanistic insights into human brain A microchip that allows scientists to study the complexity of 3D cellular networks at unrivaled scale and precision has been added to 3Brain AG’s brain-on-chip portfolio. In collaboration with Swiss precision manufacturing experts, CSEM, 3Brain AG made the announcement today (August 22). The cell-electronic interface technology will also allow scientists to gain novel mechanistic insights […] August 23, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Liza Laws Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 19 Jul 2022 CN Bio opens new lab to meet increasing market demand for organ-on-chip research services New laboratory facilities have been opened today (July 19) at UK organ-on-chip company CN Bio to meet market demand. The Cambridge-based company’s laboratory space has doubled in response to an increasing need for services as the technology gains traction within drug discovery and development programs. Microphysiological systems CN Bio concentrates on designing single and multi-organ […] July 19, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 4 Mar 2020 CN Bio Raises €8M to Boost Organ-on-a-Chip Rollout UK cell culture specialist CN Bio Innovations has secured €7.98M (£7M) from Chinese investors to bolster its US market and expand European activities. Investment in the bioengineering company was led by Chinese investor CITIC Securities Company and with further support from existing Hong Kong-based investor CN Innovations Holdings. CN Bio, which creates benchtop instruments to […] March 4, 2020 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 7 Aug 2018 First 3D Placenta Model Helps Study Pregnancy Disorders Austrian researchers have created a miniature 3D model of the human placenta, which could help us understand the causes of pregnancy complications. The human placenta plays a vital role in maintaining a healthy pregnancy, supplying the fetus with the nutrients and hormones it needs to grow and protecting it from bacterial infections. Researchers at the […] August 7, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 24 May 2018 Organs-on-a-Chip for Drug Research in a Range of Diseases Make it to the Market CN Bio Innovations has globally launched an organ-on-a-chip device that allows scientists to test potential drugs on living human organ models. CN Bio Innovations, an Oxford University spin-out, has launched a device that enables scientists to test potential drugs in conventional cell culture labs without the need for animal models. The technology, which has been […] May 24, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 19 Feb 2018 Organ-on-a-Chip Technology Used to Spot New Hepatitis B Drug Targets Scientists in London are the first in the world to test how pathogens like the hepatitis B virus interact with artificial human organs. Researchers at Imperial College London have used artificial human organs, or organs-on-chips, to replicate the make-up and physiology of the cells in whole organs. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows how the […] February 19, 2018 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 26 Oct 2017 The FDA Recruits British Organs-on-Chips to Speed Up Drug Development CN Bio Innovations and the FDA have entered a research collaboration to better predict drug safety in drug development by using human organs-on-chips. CN Bio Innovations, a spin-out from the University of Oxford, will be working with scientists from the FDA’s Centre for Drug Evaluation and Research with the aim of integrating organ-on-a-chip technology in the […] October 26, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
More News! 6 Jul 2017 Lab-Grown Bile Ducts Can Replace Liver Transplant in Mice A new study describes a method that could be used to regenerate bile ducts in children with biliary atresia instead of waiting for a liver transplant. Researchers at the University of Cambridge might have found an alternative to transplant for children with liver disease. Their results, published today in Nature Medicine, reveal that primitive bile ducts grown […] July 6, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email