Billionaire-Backed Startup To Grow Brain-Free Organ Systems

A Billionaire-Backed Startup Wants to Grow ‘Organ Sacks’ to Replace Animal Testing

(Wired) – R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term goal, says a cofounder, is to make human versions. As the Trump administration phases out the use of animal experimentation across the federal government, a biotech startup has a bold idea for an alternative to animal testing: nonsentient “organ sacks.” Bay Area-based R3 Bio has been quietly pitching the idea to…

Billionaire-Backed Startup To Grow Brain-Free Organ Systems

[Image: ChatGPT] With the technological world being so innovative and scientific discoveries being made at an alarming rate, you might have asked yourself: Why is animal testing still a thing? Finally, this inhumane practice might be coming to an end, because one startup has received the funding to grow brain-free organs for drug testing. This will give PETA one less cause to concern itself with. Engineers at the billionaire-backed startup, R3 B…