Category: Better Science

A close-up photo of blue-gloved hands pouring fresh wood-shaving bedding from a scoop into a clean polycarbonate cage, a mound of white nesting material already pressed into the far corner.

Cage Bedding Is a Variable, Not a Given

August 5, 2026

Bedding gets bought like a shop supply: whatever’s in stock, whatever’s cheapest, swapped when a vendor backorders. It doesn’t behave…

A realistic close-up photo: a blue-gloved hand holds a small clear microfluidic organ-on-a-chip up to soft daylight, with a microscope and culture flasks blurred on the lab bench behind.

NAMs: What’s Actually Validated, and What’s Just Hype

July 16, 2026

New Approach Methodologies are having a moment. The hard part isn’t believing they’re coming. It’s telling the validated tools from…