The world’s largest ‘biological datacenter’ could help make animal testing obsolete

There’s a big flaw in the way that drug companies develop and test medicines today: What works in a mouse often doesn’t work in a human. For decades, the industry has relied on animal testing. But in a laboratory south of San Francisco, a startup called Vivodyne is scaling up a different approach. Inside wardrobe-size mini labs, robots grow human tissue and run thousands of AI -designed experiments that could better predict how well a new drug will work—and whether it will be safe. [Image: Vivod

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