Bay Area may be at risk from synthetic biology research labs

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I’m in a cramped examination room at a clinic in Panama City. The lights are dim, and calming classical music plays from built-in speakers. A nurse has injected a dose of stem cells into Kenneth Scott through an IV in...

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A Billionaire-Backed Startup Wants to Grow 'Organ Sacks' to Replace Animal Testing

By Emily Mullin, Wired | 03.23.2026

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As the Trump administration phases out the use of animal experimentation across the federal government, a biotech startup has a bold idea for an alternative to animal testing: nonsentient “organ sacks.”

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By Scott Solomon, The MIT Press Reader | 02.12.2026

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Chris Mason is a man in a hurry.

“Sometimes walking from the subway to the lab takes too long, so I’ll start running,” he told me over breakfast at a bistro near his home in Brooklyn on a crisp...

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By Jonathan Matthews, GMWatch | 12.11.2025

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In our first article in this series, we investigated the dark PR tactics that have accompanied Colossal Bioscience’s de-extinction disinformation campaign, in which transgenic cloned grey wolves have been showcased to the world as resurrected dire wolves – a...

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Bay Area may be at risk from synthetic biology research labs

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