The National Institutes of Health is continuing its mission to reduce the use of animals in drug testing by awarding $87 million in contracts to launch the Standardized Organoid Modeling (SOM) Center, ...

Scientists in the U.S. have used graphene and light to control a robot dog and develop new groundbreaking method that stimulates and matures lab-grown human brain organoids. The researchers from the ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

A safe, non-genetic method for expediting brain organoid growth aids disease research and prosthesis development. “This is a game-changer for brain research,” commented co-corresponding author Alysson ...