Startup Testing Drugs on Freshly Extracted Human Brains That Are Kept On Life Support (opens in new tab)

Covers Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testingCovered by 3 sources including Boing Boing, The Cool Down

The biotech startup Bexorg keeps the brains running for 24 hours before they're sliced apart and examined by scientists.

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The brain-in-a-bucket drug lab is here

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Startup extracts human brains hours after death and keeps them alive for 24 hours to test drugs

Links 01/06/2026: Patent Applicant Disclosures Drop After the January 2025 IDS Surcharge, "China Exports Surveillance"