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Can ‘mini brains’ replace lab animals? Organoids are changing how scientists study disease

By Habib Rezanejad, Professor of cellular and molecular biology, MacEwan University

Around 200 million animals are used in lab research around the world each year. Organoids may one day replace them.

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