Intero Biosystems is selling lab-grown human intestines to drugmakers as regulators push for alternatives to animal testing, while the startup looks to scale production and expand its organoid technology.
Intero Biosystems develops human intestinal organoids for pharmaceuticals and other companies to study compounds in laboratory cultured tissue. The startup already sells its GastroScreen model, but recognizes that it is still working to demonstrate whether it can predict human responses more accurately than existing alternatives.