In a recent article for The Conversation, Habib Rezanejad (MacEwan University) discusses the potential for lab-grown organoids to replace animals in the laboratory. Organoids—tiny, three-dimensional versions of human organs grown in a lab from stem cells—offer researchers the opportunity to study human diseases more directly. Rezanejad discusses the benefits of this in fields such as brain research and personalized medicine, and notes that organoids could replace animal testing altogether in some areas of research. He concludes by discussing some of the limitations of organoids, asserting that this emerging technology should be viewed as a new addition to a scientist’s “toolbox” rather than a total replacement.
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