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1 day agoUK unveils plans to replace animal testing with alt methods
The UK will replace many animal tests with AI, DNA-based, in vitro and organ-on-chip methods, phasing out specific regulatory tests between 2026 and 2030.
In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK, to buy a pregnancy test. But it wasn't for Moffett. Her postdoc, Margherita Turco, had created what she thought might be the first cluster of cells capable of mimicking the tissue of the placenta - a placental organoid. But she needed a way to be sure.