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Tech to Replace Animal Testing Is Almost Ready. Scientists Are Not Original

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By Brandon Keim Verified
| Fixing the Future
Seventeen years ago, cell biologist Donald Ingber and his colleagues at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering submitted a paper to the journal Science describing their model human lung. It was smaller than a USB stick and made of a clear polymer slab containing narrow channels, which were lined with the type of cells that line a lung’s air sacs and blood vessels.
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Tech to Replace Animal Testing Is Almost Ready. Scientists Are Not

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By Brandon Keim Verified
| Flipboard
Popular Joint Supplement Linked to 25% Higher Dementia Risk in People With Early Memory Loss Over the past two decades, the sale of dietary supplements has taken off. Today, it seems as though there's a pill for practically any ailment you can …
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The Virtue of Being Simple

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By Brandon Keim Verified
| Nautilus Verified
Think smarter is always better? Consider the barnacle. The parasitic barnacles of the genus Sacculina, to be exact. They begin life as free-swimming larvae before growing a clam-like carapace, developing their brain, and seeking out a crab host. The brain isn’t very big, but it meets the challenge of identifying a suitable crab—and, if the barnacle is male, of identifying a crab already parasitized by a virgin female—and exploring its body in search of an ideal attachment point.
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