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Is this the end of animal testing?

More than 60 companies now produce organs on chips commercially, focusing on five major organs: liver, kidney, lung, intestines, and brain. They’re already being used to understand diseases, discover and test new drugs, and explore personalized approaches to treatment. Could this be the end of animal testing? This story was written by Harriet Brown and narrated by Noa.

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  Quantum computing is taking on its biggest challenge: noise

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  Will we ever trust robots?

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  Exosomes are touted as a trendy cure-all. We don’t know if they work.

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  The quest to figure out farming on Mars

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  How tracking animal movement may save the planet

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  Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today

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  How the Ukraine-Russia war is reshaping the tech sector in Eastern Europe

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  AI search could break the web

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  The messy quest to replace drugs with electricity

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  The weeds are winning

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  Why AI could eat quantum computing’s lunch

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  The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age

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  Meet the divers trying to figure out how deep humans can go

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  Palmer Luckey on the Pentagon’s future of mixed reality

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  How covid conspiracy theories led to an alarming resurgence in AIDS denial…