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The many uses of mini-organs. Scientists are using organoids to screen drug candidates, grow viruses, build biocomputers, and much, much more.


Scientists are using organoids to screen drug candidates, grow viruses, build biocomputers, and much, much more.

I had to roll this phrase around my brain quite a few times before I understood what they meant: the robot provides the same amount of data as a building full of lab mice. In a 2017 Stat story on efforts to implant human brain organoids into rodents, the late Sharon Begley talked to legal scholar and bioethicist Hank Greely of Stanford University. ( USA Today).Small studies showing that ibogaine, a psychedelic derived from tree bark, can treat opioid addiction have renewed interest in this illegal drug.

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