There's more and more interest in lab grown, tissue or organ-based disease models. Some groups are working at integrating separate tissues into whole systems to mimic disease states.
It's promising and much more scalable but I don't see it replacing animal models in the near future yet.
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There's more and more interest in lab grown, tissue or organ-based disease models. Some groups are working at integrating separate tissues into whole systems to mimic disease states.
It's promising and much more scalable but I don't see it replacing animal models in the near future yet.