‘A mouse can’t tell us what works’: UK scientists to grow miniature human organs for drug testing

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1. Wed, 12 August 2026

   3 reports
   • The Guardian World04:00first to report
     ‘A mouse can’t tell us what works’: UK scientists to grow miniature human organs for drug testing

     Organoids and tissues grown from human cells promise more accurate results, with £20m Cambridge project to create standardised models Miniature human organs and other tissues are to be grown from NHS patients’ cells in a drive to improve medicine testing and reduce the number of animals used in drug development. Scientists will use the clumps of tissue to learn how diseases vary between patients, helping them identify which treatments are best for different people based on the particular...

   • Index.hr (Croatia)04:29
     Britanci će uzgajati minijaturne ljudske organe za testiranje lijekova

     BRITANSKI znanstvenici uzgajat će minijaturne ljudske organe, tzv. organoide, za testiranje lijekova. Projekt vrijedan 20 mil. funti trebao bi smanjiti broj testova na životinjama i ubrzati razvoj lijekova.

   • Vecernji list (Croatia)12:18
     Britanci kreću u veliki eksperiment, u laboratorijima će uzgajati minijaturne ljudske organe. Evo za što će se koristiti

     Istraživači već više od desetljeća uzgajaju minijaturne nakupine ljudskih organa, poznate kao organoidi. Ispitivanja su pokazala da dijelovi manji od jednog milimetra mogu oponašati ključne značajke organa i tkiva u punoj veličini

2. Fri, 14 August 2026

   1 report
   • bioworld.com19:00
     UK's organoid hub to reduce animal testing, improve preclinical models

     There is progress to report on the U.K. government’s commitment to reduce the use of animals in research, with the formation of a new national center to validate and standardize patient-derived organoids.

3. Wed, 19 August 2026

   2 reports
   • ABC (Spain)15:00
     Logran, por primera vez, mantener vivos minicerebros humanos durante seis años

     En investigación médica, ' organoides ' es la palabra de moda. Se trata de diminutas réplicas tridimensionales y miniaturizadas de tejidos humanos que los científicos crean en sus laboratorios a partir de células madre pluripotentes. Estructuras milimétricas que se autoorganizan y reproducen en las placas de Petri la arquitectura y el funcionamiento básico de los órganos reales. Tenemos ya organoides de un buen número de órganos : corazones, hígados capaces de segregar bilis, riñones en...

   • Il Fatto Quotidiano (Italy)15:26
     Organoidi cerebrali, ad Harvard il record di sopravvivenza: cinque anni in laboratorio

     Cinque anni in laboratorio per un organoide cerebrale: è il nuovo record di sopravvivenza documentato per questi minuscoli modelli tridimensionali del cervello umano, ottenuti a partire da cellule coltivate in laboratorio. Il risultato è stato raggiunto da un gruppo internazionale di ricerca guidato dalla biologa friulana Paola Arlotta, dell’Università di Harvard, ed è pubblicato sulla […] L'articolo Organoidi cerebrali, ad Harvard il record di sopravvivenza: cinque anni in laboratorio proviene...

4. Wed, 26 August 2026

   2 reports
   • medicaldaily.com00:00
     Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Survived Five Years and Kept an Internal Record of Every Month It Aged

     Harvard researchers cultured cortical organoids for the past five years, then found that old cells skip developmental steps they had already completed.

   • longreads.com14:00
     AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive

     "Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks."